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I got the first edition of this book not long after it came out, around the time when I was still new to building web sites. I was shopping in my University bookstore when I decided I wanted to get a few reference books for my web design hobby. There was a wide range available, but I was looking for a small handful of books to use as a reference for whenever I got stuck.
When I spotted Web Design in a Nutshell I knew I had found exactly what I was looking for. It covered the topics I needed in just the right amount of detail, not too technical but not patronising either. Needless to say, I only did buy the one book that day, it was the best £15 I ever spent on a computer book!
The first edition of Web Design in a Nutshell was the tattiest computer book I owned, and with very good reason. While I may be a dab hand with the old HTML code, there are times when I'm not sure if I'm using the right code or if a certain tag will work. I wish that there were more books like this, it has enough detail to satisfy those new to HTML as well as an easy to use reference for those with bad memories!
The second version of Web Design in a Nutshell contains all the same quality information as the first (revised and updated obviously). One of the most important changes made is to update the advice given about the use of CSS in favor of depreciated tags now that CSS is better supported. Revised chapters on the images formats and the new ones added covering new topics such as SMIL and designing for mobile devices make the book more appealing to a much wider web developing audience. As ever there is the useful HTML reference and CSS support chart, which, to be honest was the main reason for me buying the 2nd edition soon after it was printed!
This book, whatever version you can get your hands on, is a must have. I've often found myself referring to Web Design in a Nutshell as my "Web Design Bible", it is the only HTML reference book I have! The only thing that lets it down, is its suceptability to age - web technologies move quickly and I'll no doubt be updating my copy of this book as and when new versions become available.
- Readability: 3
- Reference: 5
- Reusability: 5
- Examples: 3
- User Level: All
- Score: 16/20
Chapter List
- Part I: The Web Environment
- Designing for a Variety of Browsers
- Designing for a Variety of Displays
- Web Design Principles for Print Designers
- A Beginner's Guide to the Server
- Printing from the Web
- Accessibility
- Internationalization
- Part II: Authoring
- HMTL Overview
- Structual HTML Tags
- Formatting Text
- Creating Links
- Adding Images and Other Page Elements
- Tables
- Frames
- Forms
- Specifying Color in HTML
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Server Side Includes
- Part III: Graphics
- GIF Format
- JPEG Format
- PNG Format
- Designing Graphics with the Web Palette
- Animated GIFs
- Part IV: Multimedia and Interactivity
- Audio on the Web
- Video on the Web
- Flash and Shockwave
- Introduction to SMIL
- Part V: Advanced Technologies
- Introduction to JavaScript
- Introduction to DHTML
- Introduction to XML
- XHTML
- WAP and WML
- Part VI: Appendixes
- HTML Elements
- List of Attributes
- Depreciated Tags
- Proprietary Tags
- CSS Support Chart
- Character Entities
Other Information
A sample chapter, Tables, is available from the O'Reilly Web Site. The contents list, book cover image and sample chapter are used with kind permission from O'Reilly.