| | | Copyright |
| | | Acknowledgments |
| | | | Dave Shea Thanks: |
| | | | Molly E. Holzschlag Thanks: |
| | | | From Both Dave and Molly |
| | | | Special Thanks |
| | | About the Authors |
| | | | Dave Shea |
| | | | Molly E. Holzschlag |
| | | Introduction |
| | | | What Is This Book About? |
| | | | Who Should Buy This Book? |
| | | | Conventions Used |
| | | | How Should I Use This Book? |
| | | Chapter 1. View Source |
| | | | Genesis |
| | | | The Beginning of a Change |
| | | | Why these Standards? |
| | | | Planting the Seed |
| | | | Default DesignTranquille |
| | | | Implications |
| | | | Laying the Foundation |
| | | | Semantic Markup |
| | | | Building Great Markup |
| | | | The Test of Time |
| | | | Zen Garden Source HTML |
| | | | Visual Structure |
| | | | Designing For Flexibility |
| | | | Lessons Taught |
| | | | Benefits of Web Standards |
| | | | Lessons Learned |
| | | | Accessibility Checking |
| | | | Text Scalability |
| | | | XHTML and Mime Types |
| | | | Foreign Languages |
| | | | Copyright and Theft |
| | | | Build it Bigger, Build it Better! |
| | | Chapter 2. Design |
| | | | Atlantis: Minimal design, unity, and symbolism |
| | | | Zunflower: Playing with light and shadow, shape and space |
| | | | Springtime: Using color to evoke emotion |
| | | | Viridity: Balancing pattern, texture, and contrast |
| | | | Ballade: Using the imagination to create visual flow and guide the eye |
| | | | Night Drive: Converting static site mock-ups to code, and solving problems when doing so |
| | | Chapter 3. Layout |
| | | | Backyard: Understanding absolute positioning and floats |
| | | | Entomology: Centered layouts in contemporary Web design |
| | | | White Lily: Principles and process for designing effective layouts |
| | | | Prêt-à-porter: Exploring horizontal lines in a vertical world |
| | | | CS(S) Monk: Meaningful positioning and understanding the grid |
| | | | Not So Minimal: Dealing with common overflow problems |
| | | Chapter 4. Imagery |
| | | | Japanese Garden: Understanding image formats and optimization |
| | | | Revolution!: Applying images with CSS |
| | | | Deco: Minimal imagery, maximum impact |
| | | | No Frontiers!: Breaking out of the box using rounded imagery |
| | | | Coastal Breeze: Creating imagery for your work and finding additional source material |
| | | | What Lies Beneath: Three-dimensional environments in two-dimensional form |
| | | Chapter 5. Typography |
| | | | Oceans Apart: Simplicity in type leads to lasting, effective design |
| | | | Si6: The trouble with fonts, and how to cope with that trouble |
| | | | Release One: Coming to terms with the insanity that is font sizing |
| | | | Dead or Alive: Grace and gravity in typographic design |
| | | | Blood Lust: Exploring type formatting options |
| | | | Golden Mean: Method and creativity combined to create typographic balance |
| | | Chapter 6. Special Effects |
| | | | This is Cereal: The cascade and layering effects |
| | | | Gemination: Two designs but one style sheet |
| | | | Bonsai Sky: Working around browser limitations with creative imagery and code |
| | | | Tulipe: CSS drop-down menus with an alternative for Internet Explorer |
| | | | Door to my Garden: Simple CSS resulting in impressive, sophisticated visual effects |
| | | | Elastic Lawn: Visual problem solving sometimes goes further than skin-deep |
| | | Chapter 7. Reconstruction |
| | | | Hedges: Background images blend seamlessly with a variable foreground |
| | | | Radio Zen: A radio dial made possible with a fixed background image |
| | | | South of the Border: Corralling content with margins and positioning |
| | | | Corporate ZenWorks: From competition to concord |
| | | | Open Window: One design, three layouts |
| | | | Mnemonic: Designer tricks for liquid layouts and enhanced effects |
| | | Closing Thoughts |
| | | | CSS Crib Sheet |
| | | | Understand the Problem |
| | | | Other Resources |
| | | | CSS Design Web Sites |
| | | | Publications |
| | | | Books |
| | | | Submit Your Own! |
| | | Index |