Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax

One of my favorite books of all time!!

Noted web standards guru Dan Cederholm (of SimpleBits fame) presents sixteen chapters devoted to the effective and optimal use of XHTML markup followed by advanced CSS techniques layered upon that markup. While much of this information has been covered before and will be familiar to intermediate and advanced XHTML coders, several of the CSS chapters are real eye-openers, even for advanced technicians. For example, in Chapter 11: Print Styles, Cederholm discusses an extremely effective technique for allowing the user to switch between alternative layouts of your page (two-column, three-column) without the need for a round-trip to the server. And Chapter 15: Styling  sounds innocent enough, but presents a technique that allows the developer to provide some basic Content Management System (CMS) functionality as applied to web templating. It's a short book (238 pages), and quick read, but may prove indispensible from a design, productivity, and business perspective. Highly recommended.

Todo sobre el mundo del desarrollo de sitios web compatibles con estándares.

Coming from the all flash explosion of the early 2000's, I was never particularly interested in web 2.0. Once I shifted my focus out of actionscript and into to semantic mark-up and valid HTML, I realized I had a whole lot to learn. Dan's book was the map that I used to get steer my learning process through the world of web standards. I've read countless books and articles on standards since - but I only ever returned to this book. A fantastic work, cohesive and thoughtful, simple and sensible - a truly solid and de facto work on the subject.

If you are a web developer this book ought to be on your desk, and dog-eared from overuse. No question about it.

Published at the dawn of the Web 2.0 era (2004), this book provides you with the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, which are the bedrock of web design. Because it is so well written and fundamental, the concepts and practices stand up to this day. One caveat is that as soon as you work through the fundamentals, there are a ton of great resources to learn modern HTML (post HTML5), CSS, and Javascript. HTML/CSS/Javascript are the cornerstone of all web development and it's important to at least be familiar with the fundamentals. In a noisy world, this book is a great starting point.

Great book for some CSS best practices.