HTML books

Like any other software system, Web sites gradually accumulate “cruft” over time. They slow down. Links break. Security and compatibility problems mysteriously appear. New features don’t integrate seamlessly. Things just don’t work as well. In an ideal world, you’d rebuild from scratch. But you can’t: there’s no time or money for that. Fortunately, there’s a solution: You can refactor your Web code using easy, proven techniques, tools, and recipes adapted from the world of software development.
In Refactoring HTML, Elliotte Rusty Harold explains how to use refactoring to improve virtually any Web site or application. Writing for programmers and non-programmers alike, Harold shows how to refactor for better reliability, performance, usability, security, accessibility, compatibility, and even search engine placement. Step by step, he shows how to migrate obsolete code to today’s stable Web standards, including XHTML, CSS, and REST—and eliminate chronic problems like presentation-based markup, stateful applications, and “tag soup.”
The book’s extensive catalog of detailed refactorings and practical “recipes for success” are organized to help you find specific solutions fast, and get maximum benefit for minimum effort. Using this book, you can quickly improve site performance now—and make your site far easier to enhance, maintain, and scale for years to come.
Topics covered include
•    Recognizing the “smells” of Web code that should be refactored
•    Transforming old HTML into well-formed, valid XHTML, one step at a time
•    Modernizing existing layouts with CSS
•    Updating old Web applications: replacing POST with GET, replacing old contact forms, and refactoring JavaScript
•    Systematically refactoring content and links
•    Restructuring sites without changing the URLs your users rely upon
This book will be an indispensable resource for Web designers, developers, project managers, and anyone who maintains or updates existing sites. It will be especially helpful to Web professionals who learned HTML years ago, and want to refresh their knowledge with today’s standards-compliant best practices.
This book will be an indispensable resource for Web designers, developers, project managers, and anyone who maintains or updates existing sites. It will be especially helpful to Web professionals who learned HTML years ago, and want to refresh their knowledge with today’s standards-compliant best practices.

The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.

HTML is the building block for intranets and the web. XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is the newest version of HTML; it brings the functionality of XML to HTML so that developers can easily use their content on a multitude of platforms. A thorough working knowledge of HTML and XHTML remains critical to effective web content development.

* This value-priced guide by one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web delivers 250 solutions, workarounds, tips, and annoyance-busters that Web designers won't find anywhere else
* Offers 500 pages of insider techniques to improve workflow and efficiency, save development time and money, and increase search engine rankings and site traffic, whether designers want to enhance an existing Web site or build a state-of-the-art site from scratch
* Covers topics such as HTML, XHTML, CSS, graphics and multimedia, cell phone and PDA accessibility, content development, tools, usability, information architecture, globalization, and site redesign
* Molly Holzschlag is a steering committee member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and spokesperson for the World Organization of Webmasters, as well as a frequent lecturer at industry conferences and the author of twenty-five previous books

THE HANDS-ON, TUTORIAL-BASED GUIDE TO BUILDING SECURE AND HIGH PERFORMANT WEB WIDGET Get up to speed for developing web widget with design guidelines, standard practices, security measures and techniques for high performance. Developing Web Widget with HTML, CSS, JSON and Ajax is the first guide to creating web widgets, tiny web applications that can be embedded in a web page, blog or social profile. Inside, author of the bestselling book Creating Vista Gadget, Rajesh Lal provide readers with a methodology for building widget using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Developing Web Widget starts with a step-by step tutorial starting from Hello World Widget to an advanced Web Widget which uniquely identifies the user based on the url and not only display user data but also update data. Reader will learn how to use techniques to ensure security and add high performance to the web widget. You will also learn how to create RSS based widgets using Ajax, Proxy Server and Google Ajax Feed API and Widgets based on Facebook APIs. The star Widget developed in the book is now a popular free service. To see it live, visit http://addrating.com All code can be downloaded from the companion website. http://widgets-gadgets.com

HTML texts from other academic publishers treat HTML in a step-by-step cookbook fashion, as though it were a simple software application, limiting the amount of material and concepts covered. Unique in the marketplace, Gottleber and Trainor's Even More Excellent HTML combines the pedagogical support of academic texts with the comprehensive coverage found in trade books. No previous knowledge of HTML or Web design is assumed.

*"Skinning" refers to an application's ability to change the look of the design by a setting in the application

*Explains how DotNetNuke skins can be created in either ASP.NET or HTML with CSS and can be developed with any Web tool that creates HTML/CSS or ASP.NET

*Combines the hot topic of using the DotNetNuke application framework with CSS and other site layout technologies to manage the user experience, look, feel, and functionality of Web sites

*Covers how to package, install, and remove a skin and offers programming tools for skins

*Discusses efficient design, when to use HTML versus CSS versus ASP.NET for a design, and browser-safe designs

A complete and fully updated reference for these key Web technologies

HTML, XHTML, and CSS are essential tools for creating dynamic Web sites. This friendly, all-in-one guide covers what programmers need to know about each of the technologies and how to use them together.

Like the bestselling first edition, HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes it easy to grasp the fundamentals and start building effective Web pages. With new information about Web 2.0 and Ajax, it's the perfect reference as well. *

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• HTML, XHTML, and CSS are the key technologies for building dynamic Web pages
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• This friendly, all-in-one guide explains each technology, shows how to use them together, and examines quality Web design and layout
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• Six self-contained minibooks cover HTML, CSS, design and layout, client-side JavaScript, Ajax and server-side, and putting it all together
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• Covers new Web development advancements including new technologies and changes to the standards
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• Includes a CD with additional valuable Web development programs and a companion Web site featuring the code used in the book
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Web programmers and designers will find what they most need to know in HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, helping them create the type of Web sites that today's market demands.

This best-selling text by Patrick Carey uses the New Perspectives Series signature case-based, problem-solving approach to teach students how to create simple to advanced Web sites using HTML and XHTML.

With smartphones in nearly every pocket and the iPhone leading the pack, it is increasingly important that you have a grasp on how to build open, standards-based web apps for the small screen. iPhone native apps in Cocoa and Objective-C are fine, but you’ll need a different skill set to make sophisticated web apps. Beginning iPhone Apps for Web Developers helps you do just that, offering the skills and techniques you need to make your website look great on the iPhone and more.

• Optimize your website for mobile devices
• Enhance your mobile user experience
• Learn iPhone specific event handling, javascript, CSS and animations

• Simple steps to make your website look great in all browsers, including on the iPhone.
• How to get a head start on CSS3 and other new web standards that will be coming to desktops soon.
• Why mobile browsers are different from desktop browsers: learn how to handle user actions such as touch, tilt, and shake.
• How Apple has defined the modern mobile user interface. Learn what they know.
• How to minimize bandwidth usage, and other tricks to make your site work on mobile devices.
• What you need to know to become an iPhone web applications developer.
• The differences between having to support IE6 versus using cutting edge CSS3 and CSS animations.

The audience for this book ranges from the web developer or programmer who has a general understanding of HTML, CSS and event handlers to senior web developers well versed in browser differences, with limited to no mobile development experience. The book will also benefit iPhone application developers who may want to port their application from the iPhone to the desktop or to the mobile browser.