A Complete Guide to Web Design

Index 559

Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter Edition

Web Palette, 16, 32, 78, 303–317, 326
color blenders, 315–317
color names vs., 78
converting to, 309
designing with web-safe colors,
307–309
tools for, 310–315
Web Schematics on the WWW, 450
Web Scrubber (Furbo Filters), 314
web servers, 47–63
configuring for Flash files, 362
configuring for Shockwave files, 368
software for, 48
Web Shift slider (ImageReady), 312
web sites
accessibility (see accessibility)
browser-aware designing, 9–13
display-aware designing, 14–27
documents for (see web pages)
knowing your audience, 12
purpose of, 13
rating (kid appropriateness), 101
testing, 13
Webable! site, 26
WebMonkey site, 13
WebSiteGarage utility, 11
WebSnap Adaptive Palette, 305
WebTV, 5, 7, 26
weight, font, 401
Weinman, Lynda, 309, 317
Which Browser site, 7
whitespace
around graphics, 162
between table cells, 185
blocks of ( tags), 154, 157
encoding in URLs, 235
in filenames, 57
graphics for, 157
indentation in lists, 418
nonbreaking space, 190
padding, 409, 427
paragraph indentation, 407
in tables, removing, 188–190
text line/word/character spacing,
403–405
white-space property (CSS), 417
width attribute, 509

<colgroup> tags, 170

<embed> tags, 148, 165, 339, 344,

357, 363

<hr> tag, 149, 155

<iframe> tags, 209

<img> tag, 151, 159–160

<marquee> tag, 152

<object> tags, 153, 166, 364

<spacer> tag, 154

<table> tags, 172, 184

<td>, <th> tags, 174, 185

(see also size)

width property (CSS), 412, 426

window object, 431

window, browser

centering object in (example), 196

frames (see frames)

live space considerations, 16–18

positioning in (see positioning)

resizable vs. fixed web pages, 19–23

status bar text, 136

targeting with links, 137

two-column layouts (example),

199–201

(see also browsers)

Windows OS and CSS, 518–526

windows, browser

opening with JavaScript, 380–382

status bar text, 381

word-spacing property (CSS), 404

working directory, determining, 56

wrap attribute (<textarea>), 233, 240

wrapping text

graphics and, 162

multiline text entry fields, 240

Wright, Matt, 247, 248

WS_FTP utility, 58

X

Xing Technologies’ Streamworks, 342,

355

XML (Extensible Markup Language),

445–452

examples of, 448–451

XSL (Extensible Style Language), 451

XSSI (Extended Server Side Includes),

255–256