On 4/15/2016 3:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I don't have personal knowledge of any books. However two sites > presenting themselves as "tutorials" are > http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://htmldog.com/ . Both appear > technically competent. Their presentational styles are very > different. A brief discussion on > comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html indicates they appeal to > different audiences. Having tried both, I prefer the later.
I beg to differ on w3schools.com. While the quality *has* improved somewhat, it is still considered to be of very low quality. As to the overall topic of "HTML Design", nowadays HTML is only a small piece of the puzzle. HTML as originally conceived was a mishmash of both content structure and presentation. Modern web design strives to separate content from presentation by using CSS to control layout and HTML to transmit appropriately tagged and identified content. The third piece of the puzzle is Javascript, which is REQUIRED to achieve any kind of fluid design because of CSS's limitations. There are many layouts that cannot be achieved using only CSS and HTML (play around with position:fixed and position:absolute for awhile) or require abhorrent hacks to implement (duplicate content under a fixed header). Any book that focuses on HTML is like a book on automobile maintenance that covers only the interior trim. Web design, especially responsive web design, requires all three (HTML, CSS, Javascript), and of those three HTML is by far the simplest part. -- Jim Garrison ([email protected]) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
