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Dan Cederholm, Steve Rycroft 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. It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies. This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and precisely how to apply them. Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designerindeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challengewhile the browser's support for web standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently. As a simple example of its power, you can use CSS to lay out your pages instead of nesting tablesthis can make file sizes smaller, allowing pages to load faster, ultimately increasing accessibility for all browsers, devices, and web users. * Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and more easily understood. * Use CSS to style different elements of a web page. * Lay out pages easily and effectively. * Compare multiple methods of achieving the same results to make better design choices. * Learn about advanced web design techniques and their important caveats. Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concept and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. Youll learn about multi-column layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and

This book is the one resource you'll need for understanding and implementing the vast array of Web standards information. Web Standards Design Guide is really three books in one?a detailed overview of standardization, a reference book for the standards, and a step-by-step, how-to guide for creating standards-compliant Web sites. The book details the essential Web standards, including XML, CSS, accessibility, xForms, and xLink. It uses practical Web page examples throughout to help explain why you should work within standards, which ones are relevant to specific projects, how to use them, and how to convert existing code. The ultimate goal of the book is to teach you how to write standards-compliant code; however, you'll also learn about workflow and processes that will help ensure your code's compliance and increase efficiency and turnaround time for your projects. Future insights to where the Web is headed are also provided with tips on how designers can prepare for it. Using the skills and wisdom provided throughout the book, you?ll be well prepared to create high-quality sites that meet today's standards.Web Standards Design Guide is written to inform and guide We ] designers through the maze of online standards information, so that they can understand how and why to conform to these standards. It provides a comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to the essential Web standards, including XML, CSS, Accessibility, xForms, and xLink. Using practical Web page examples, the book teaches designers why they should work within standards, which ones concern them, how to use them, and how to convert existing code.

Este libro presenta una visión general de cómo la web, y especialmente la web social, ha transformado los sistemas de comunicación y evaluación científica. Se destacan dos elementos clave en esta transformacion: las plataformas web sociales, como nuevos medios de promocion y difusion de la investigacion, y la altmetria o altmetrics, referida al uso de esas plataformas para medir el impacto o la influencia social de la investigacion. Esta obra se centra en la clasificacion de algunas de las herramientas web 2.0 mas populares en funcion de su finalidad, haciendo hincapie en sus caracteristicas y en los indicadores de uso, impacto o influencia que ofrecen a niel individual, institucional y de publicacion. Tambien se describen algunos de los agregadores web de impacto social, herramientas que rastrean diversas fuentes de la web social y muestran diferentes tipos de impacto para autores o publicaciones.

Since its first edition in the year 2000, the annual Web Design Index has developed into one of the most important publications in its field. Year after year, it gives an accurate overview of international web design standards. Every Web Design Index contains 1002 outstanding web pages. With each web page, the URL is indicated, as well as the names of those involved in the design and programming. Selection for the Web Design Index is based on design quality, innovation, and effectiveness, and the books offer examples of all conceivable forms and styles.