XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook: Building Better Sites and Applications

Expert Ian Graham starts out with a concise, yet thorough, review/tutorial of the basics for markup, formatting, rendering, and document scripting with HTML, XHTML, XML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Then, writing from the perspective of both Web developers and Web project managers, and with the help of dozens of illustrated, real-life examples, he:

• Explains the relationships between XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS, and other Web technologies
• Acquaints you with all of XHTML’s powerful new features
• Explores the practice of elegant, reusable document design
• Schools you in the principles of good Web site and Web application design
• Presents several site and application-building models
• Provides management guidelines for site design, implementation, and maintenance
• Reviews Internet networking basics, URLs, and the HTTP protocol
• Shows how to customize Web servers with CGI scripts, page scripting tools, and more
• Offers selection criteria for choosing Web development tools and software

Contents

• Markup and Layout Review: HTML and CSS.
  
• XML: The eXtensible Markup Language.
  
• Software Processing of XML and HTML.
  
• Technical Web Page Design.
  
• Web Site Architecture and Design.
  
• Web Site/Application Design and Management.
  
• Internet Networking.
  
• Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
  
• The HTTP Protocol.
  
• Data Processing on an HTTP Server.
  
• CGI Programming Examples and Parsed HTML.
  
• Web Application Development Tools.
  
• Index.