A Unique Approach to Learning HTML and CSS Simultaneously.

Master Hpertext (or Extensible Hypertext) Markup Language (HTML/XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and You?re well on your way to creating modern, accessible Websites. This comprehensive guide offers integrated instruction in both. You?ll save time and get more productive by learning to structure your (X) HTML content for best effect with CSS styles, from the start.

Using the latest standards, best practices, and real?world examples, web expert Virginia DeBolt offers a thorough grounding in the basics plus advanced techniques for those who want to improve their current skills or learn more modern ways of working. You?ll find out how to create websites that are accessible to the widest range o visitors, learn the latest specs, build CSS for print and handheld devices, and work with a variety of CSS?based layouts.

COVERAGE INCLUDES:

• Writing XHTML and CSS using correct syntax
• Working with fixed and fluid two? and three?column layouts
• Styling links as CSS popups
• Creating and applying styles to make an accessible form
• Mastering hierarchy, alignment, focal point, and other design concepts
• publishing and testing your pages
• Working bloat?free with CSS in Dreamweaver®
• Weaning yourself from table?based layouts and out?of?date coding

FEATURED ON THE CD
The companion CD includes all the materials you need to work through each chapter, as well as sample site materials, Style Me test pages, bonus color palettes, and trial software.

• A Complete Solution for Integrating (X) HTML and CSS from the Start
• Covers the Latest Standards from the World Wide Web Consortium
• Full Coverage for Users of All Skill Levels
• Classroom Ready! Full Courseware and Instructor Support Materials Included
• Gain Inspiration from Top?notch Examples of Real Websites Built Using CSS

Virginia DeBolt grew up in southern Colorado, where her father often took her fishing and hunting. She can still walk off with a teddy bear from the shooting gallery at the fair. After receiving her college degrees, she taught in public schools in Colorado and New Mexico. Her first computer was a Commodore 64. The schools were using Apple IIe computers and Virginia quickly became the ?computer person? in the school.
Her first four books were written to teach writing using cooperative learning and are still in print and selling well. She graduated to a blazingly fast 8 MHz Mac Classic to celebrate her status as a working writer.
In the mid?1990s, she moved to Texas and took some classes with the notion of finding work as a technical writer. One class was in HTML, and Virginia?s life was never the same after that. HTML took over her thoughts, dreams, conversation, time, and energy. Soon she had a contract tech writing job by day, and a part time gig teaching HTML at the community college by night. The dining room of her home was filled with office tables and a web of wires between two Macs, two Windows boxes, assorted scanners, printers, and Zip drives. In the free time between her two jobs, she was making web sites for fun.
The HTML teaching job sent her searching in places like SXSW Interactive conferences for answers and ideas. But what she heard in the conference halls and what she saw in the books that were available to teach HTML and Dreamweaver were 180 degrees apart. In 2001, she started writing reviews of these books on her blog at www.webteacher.ws.
The Web Teacher blog brought her to the attention of computer book publishers. After contributing to books written by other people, she decided to write her own book to promote her theory that HTML and CSS should be taught as integrated skills, not as two distinct and separate ideas. The first book was Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn (Wiley, 2004). The second is the one you hold in your hand now.
Oh, her latest computer? There?s just one. A Mac laptop that needs almost no wires strung about and does Windows on demand.

This unique approach to learning HTML and CSS simultaneously shows you how to save time and be more productive by learning to structure your (X) HTML content for best effect with CSS styles. You’ll discover how to create websites that are accessible to the widest range of visitors, build CSS for print and handheld devices, and work with a variety of CSS-based layouts. Using the latest standards, best practices, and real-world examples, this book offers you with a thorough grounding in the basics and also includes advanced techniques.

Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS maintains the "integrated" approach used in Virginia DeBolt’s earlier book and throughout her web teaching. Mastery-level HTML and CSS is treated as a single topic, taught together because the fastest workflows and most effective web sites develop these pieces together.

The Mastering series from Sybex provides outstanding instruction for readers with intermediate and advanced skills, in the form of top-notch training and development for those already working in their field and clear, serious education for those aspiring to become pros. Every Mastering book includes:

• Real-World Scenarios, ranging from case studies to interviews, that show how the tool, technique, or knowledge presented is applied in actual practice.
• Skill-based instruction, with chapters organized around real tasks rather than abstract concepts or subjects.
• Self-review test questions, so you can be certain you’re equipped to do the job right.

Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS fulfills the promise of this series to supply professionals and students with the latest information and complete, practical skills for their workday tasks. You’ll learn all this and much more:

• Writing XHTML and CSS using correct syntax
• Working with fixed and fluid two- and three-column layouts
• Styling links as CSS popups
• Creating and applying styles to make an accessible form
• Mastering hierarchy, alignment, focal point, and other design concepts
• Publishing and testing your pages
• Working bloat-free with CSS in Dreamweaver
• Weaning yourself from table-based layouts and out-of-date coding

The companion CD-ROM provides a StyleMe Challenge Page, which readers can use as a "lab" to test out their CSS stylesheets, plus all the files and resources needed to practice along with the book’s tutorials. It also contains a selection of third-party software, especially text-editing tools with handy features such as color coding and indenting that make writing HTML easier. Instructor’s supplemental resources are available to accompany this book as a classroom text, including a sample syllabus, presentation slides, and an additional Q&A test bank.

• The standard books on the market teach HTML first, then CSS-a method that forces readers to unlearn HTML styling practices; this unique guide takes a different approach, teaching readers to include CSS hooks in HTML markup right from the start as a beneficial way to save time and boost productivity
• Features real-world examples from top-notch CSS-built sites and includes a color insert that demonstrates the color benefits of CSS
• Provides instructor-support material such as skills and objectives, exercises and answers, a sample syllabus and presentations, and suggested projects
• The CD-ROM is packed with sample site materials, "Style Me" test pages, and bonus software

* The standard books on the market teach HTML first, then CSS-a method that forces readers to unlearn HTML styling practices; this unique guide takes a different approach, teaching readers to include CSS hooks in HTML markup right from the start as a beneficial way to save time and boost productivity
* Features real-world examples from top-notch CSS-built sites and includes a color insert that demonstrates the color benefits of CSS
* Provides instructor-support material such as skills and objectives, exercises and answers, a sample syllabus and presentations, and suggested projects
* The CD-ROM is packed with sample site materials, "Style Me" test pages, and bonus software

• The standard books on the market teach HTML first, then CSS-a method that forces readers to unlearn HTML styling practices; this unique guide takes a different approach, teaching readers to include CSS hooks in HTML markup right from the start as a beneficial way to save time and boost productivity
• Features real-world examples from top-notch CSS-built sites and includes a color insert that demonstrates the color benefits of CSS
• Provides instructor-support material such as skills and objectives, exercises and answers, a sample syllabus and presentations, and suggested projects
• The CD-ROM is packed with sample site materials, "Style Me" test pages, and bonus software

• The standard books on the market teach HTML first, then CSS-a method that forces readers to unlearn HTML styling practices; this unique guide takes a different approach, teaching readers to include CSS hooks in HTML markup right from the start as a beneficial way to save time and boost productivity
• Features real-world examples from top-notch CSS-built sites and includes a color insert that demonstrates the color benefits of CSS
• Provides instructor-support material such as skills and objectives, exercises and answers, a sample syllabus and presentations, and suggested projects
• The CD-ROM is packed with sample site materials, "Style Me" test pages, and bonus software

Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS maintains the “integrated” approach used in DeBolt’s earlier book (Integrated HTML and CSS, 0-7821-4378-4). Mastery-level HTML and CSS is treated as a single topic, taught together because the fastest workflows and most effective web sites develop these together. Content from the previous book is greatly expanded and deepened to include more than 200 pages of new expert-level material. Among the brand new coverage is CSS for handheld devices, the latest W3C specs, and CSS in Dreamweaver.

Packed with real-world examples from top-notch CSS-built sites, Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS also includes an insert that shows off the color benefits of CSS. The book also provides instructor-support material: skills & objectives, exercises & answers, a sample syllabus and presentations, and suggested projects. The companion CD is full of sample site materials, Style Me test pages, and bonus software.

simple to understand full of information
Clear and concise, this book has taken me from knowing nothing about web design to publishing a site of my own in 3 weeks. While there is much more to learn, my site is running smoothly and 100% W3C Strict compliant.

Great Book!
this book is the greatest that i have read ever.
though that i have a little expiriance with HTML and CSS , but this book give you the actually way to write your code only at XHTML and CSS , with a great way of explaining .

Excellent resource for modern, standards based design
Virginia DeBolt’s newest book is an excellent resource for modern, standards based design. It combines the depth of a well qualified instruction with lively, real world examples of practical web applications. This book will save you so many hours of work and research by showing you how techniques have evolved and how each application meets the various standards. Webpage structure (including columns), various navigation methods, working with images and picture galleries, banners, links, blogs, and much more are all discussed. Also included (in color) are inspirational website designs showing these modern CSS based techniques.

In the course of designing our numerous large websites for parent support I have read over a dozen design and coding books on html and css, and this is one book I return to over and over again.

Easiest tutorial I’ve found yet
I’ve been studying at web design and construction for over 10 years. Since I’m both dyslexic and limited in my short-term memory, I’ve had problems with doing more than just the basics. Understanding XHTML and CSS have been problematic for me, and I’ve had to rely on programs like Dreamweaver and Front Page to write my pages. This book is finally bringing home how web pages are constructed, and how CSS is used for both styling and positioning things. Virginia has put together the best method of presenting the material in a manner that I can comprehend, and hopefully retain. I’ve purchased a lot of books on web construction, but none have helped me as much as this one has, and continues to do. I’ll keep it over all the others as a reference in the future.