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Designing with Web Standards.(Book Review)

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| March 01, 2004 | Lehman, Thomas E. | COPYRIGHT 1991 American Library Association. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Designing with Web Standards By Jeffrey Zeldman. Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders, 2003. 456p. $35 (ISBN 0-73571-201-8).

Designing with Web Standards opens with a statement Intended to shock: 99.99 percent of today's Web sites are obsolete. The first part of the book explains why and outlines the remedy as Zeldman promotes Web standards with conviction, clarity, and humor.

Tracing the problem to the beginnings of the Web, the author explains that the Web was originally designed for text. HTML was designed to mark up documents structurally, for headings, for paragraphs, and so on. As the Web took off, Web designers began to create visually rich pages. To do this required using HTML in a way it wasn't intended--marking up Web pages to make them look a particular way, rather than for their structure.

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