Description:
Here's a book for those already proficient in using HTML to design more complex Web pages. Its purpose is to educate the reader on using style sheets and XML to make better Web pages. Style sheets are a means of providing additional and advanced specifications for the translation of mark-up codes. As a result, designers can present more advanced designs while actually reducing coding, increasing the legibility of marked-up copy, and creating a page that's easier to maintain. They can be used with the Web's workhorse markup language, HTML, or with the newer, more advanced XML. Boumphrey walks you through the thinking behind style sheets and XML, and then shows you how to use them to get more out of your design efforts. This is not a book for beginners--it requires at least a sound intermediate understanding of HTML. No knowledge of XML is required, though. Boumphrey provides all the explanation you need to follow the examples and start putting XML to work for you. The first part of the book deals with the basics--the purpose and use of style sheets and an introduction to XML. Part 2 tackles the question of what approaches work best with which browsers. Part 3 goes on to cover more advanced information and techniques. Also included is coverage of CSS1, CSS2, XSL, and Mozilla standards as well as nine technical information-dense appendices. --Elizabeth Lewis
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