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Web Basics: What You Need to Succeed
Visual Web-design programs such as Dreamweaver and GoLive are wonderful tools. But unless you have a team of engineers who ask you only to prototype sites while cooling you with a palm frond and feeding you grapes, at some point you must grasp a few code basics to craft the best-possible Web site. Read this article and you'll understand XHTML: the most modern, flexible form of HTML, and the foundation of CSS.
Written by Charles Wyke-Smith on March 15, 2006
Categories: Web/Mobile, How-Tos
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Excerpted from "Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide" by Charles Wyke-Smith.
The HTML that worked back in 2000 just can't cut the mustard in 2006. If you want your sites to look fresh and be readable in everything from Firefox to Mozilla to Safari, not to mention on cell phones and PDAs, it's time to move on to CSS. Because CSS is a mechanism for styling XHTML, you can't start using CSS until you have a solid grounding in XHTML. XHTML is based on the free-form structure of XML, where tags can be named to actually describe the content they contain; for example, <starname>Cher</starname>.
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Pages 10-27 from Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith. © 2005, Charles Wyke-Smith. Used with the permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and New Riders. All rights reserved.
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