HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling - Paperback

by Paul Haine (Author)

Unlike basic HTML guides, this book is crafted for web designers and developers who have already gained a working familiarity with the basics of HTML and web design. These advanced users want to take their markup further, making it leaner and more semantically rich, for more efficient, more usable and accessible web sites. HTML Mastery does all this and more, discussing and demonstrating all available HTML tags, including less common ones. The book explains where and how to use them, and offers styling and scripting techniques that can be employed in sophisticated web sites. In addition, the book also explores some of the advanced semantic tools that look to further improve the usability and semantic value of sites. HTML Mastery devotes an entire chapter to Microformats, and gives the reader a preview of XHTML 2.0 and Web Applications 1.0 -- web standards of the future.

Author Biography

Clawing his way from deepest, darkest Somerset, U.K. upon his coming of age, Paul Haine found himself ironically trapped for another six years on the opposite side of the country in deepest, darkest Kent, learning about web standards during the spare weeks between history lectures. Now residing in East Oxford, he spends his days working for an international publishing company, surrounded by a plethora of Apple-branded hardware, Nintendo kitsch and a truly massive collection of grunge and pixel fonts. Paul also runs his personal blog, JoeBlade.com, alongside his design blog, UnfortunatelyPaul.com. He attends to both of these approximately every six months during the gaps between catching up with his blogroll, and refreshing it to begin reading again.