Overview

The ebook will take you step by step through the production process, starting with the design image, and ending up with a working HTML template

Design image

What's in the book?

Web page structure

First we take a look at the page design, concentrating on one area at a time, and thinking about the structural decisions that need to be made:

Good forward planning will save you valuable time later.

Writing Semantic HTML markup

Semantic HTML is HTML where the tags used to structure content are selected based on the meaning of the content, not for presentation.

It's important to write semantic HTML before styling your web page. This ebook shows you the right way to do it, with the entire markup presented in clear sections:

HTML code snippet

You'll learn about:

For a more in-depth look at Semantic HTML, see our other ebook - Semantic HTML

Slicing a Photoshop document

How do you change your single design image into multiple images that can be used on the web? Photoshop provides a quick and easy solution.

You'll learn:

Slicing screenshot

Using CSS for layout and presentation

Once you've written your semantic HTML, you need to style it so that it looks like your original design.

This chapter guides you in detail through the entire CSS stylesheet, explaining each step and solving any problems encountered along the way

You'll learn:

CSS screenshot

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Menu of all our articles on HTML, CSS and web page production
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List of our CSS articles
Introduction to CSS
Beginner's introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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Introduction to HTML
Introduction to basic HTML tags and the structure of HTML documents.
How HTML, CSS and JavaScript work together in making web pages
Best practice for using HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript together to make web pages.
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Block vs Inline display style in CSS
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Inheritance and Cascading Styles in CSS
Introduction to how styles apply in CSS through inheritance and cascading.
HTML Lists
The basics of lists: unordered, ordered and definition lists covered.
HTML Tables
The basics of tables. When to use tables, and how to do it. Includes tips on colspan and rowspan properties, and the col and colgroup tags.
Anatomy of HTML tags
Describes the common attributes that can feature in your HTML tags.
Introduction to Semantic HTML
Explains what semantic HTML, or semantically-correct HTML, is and how it benefits web development.
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Our complete guide to HTML and xHTML tags, and their proper usage.
Keeping your content in order of priority with flexible CSS layouts
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