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Learn how to build hand-crafted web pages using well-structured XHTML for content and CSS for presentation.

Even if you’re an absolute beginner in web design, Web Standardistas will teach you how to build future-proof web pages the right way, using easy to master tools, which are all available for free. Regardless of your computing platform – Mac OS, Windows or Linux – we recommend the right tool for the job. Step-by-step we covers how to construct well-structured HTML pages and how to apply layout and style to these pages using CSS.

What others have said about it:

A bible for the beginners; a reference for the advanced.
–Tim Van Damme

I found this book extremely helpful and well written. Each chapter was well laid out and easy to work through. There was great attention to detail, with easy to follow examples, and the accompanying website, with its reference pages was a very welcome addition! This alone surpassed other books I’d read on the subject.
–Adrian Sherwen

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Got the book already? These web pages contain all the files you’ll need to complete the homework for the book in addition to reference files and links to resources related to each of the chapters.

Part One: A Solid HTML Foundation

• Chapter 1: Are You A Web Standardista?

• Chapter 2: Building Basic Web Pages

• Chapter 3: Structured Markup

• Chapter 4: Markup That Adds Meaning

• Chapter 5: Including Images

• Chapter 6: Creating Links with Anchors

• Chapter 7: Getting Your Site Online

Part Two: Adding Style With CSS

• Chapter 8: CSS 101

• Chapter 9: Styling Text

• Chapter 10: A One-Column CSS Layout

• Chapter 11: A Two-Column CSS Layout

• Chapter 12: List-O-Matic

• Chapter 13: Harnessing the Power of External Style Sheets

• Chapter 14: Where to from here?

The Periodical

The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:

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  A week ago the inaugural, and much-anticipated, Build Conference kicked off in Belfast...
• Molly E. Holzschlag is a writer, teacher, public speaker and opera singer, based in Tucson. We asked Ms Holzschlag a dozen questions...
• If you're a typographer on the web, Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland's '.webfont Proposal' is well worth reading...

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HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions

Learn how to build hand-crafted web pages using well-structured XHTML and lean and efficient CSS. By embracing a web standards approach, HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions enables you to create web sites that not only look great in all modern browsers, but are also accessible to a wide variety of audiences across a range of platforms - from those browsing on everyday computers, to those accessing the web on the latest, emerging mobile devices.

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The Authors

In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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