Contents:: Overview of HTML More CSS
Contents:: Overview of HTML More CSS
Text Formatting
Typefaces, Alternatives and Defaults
Text Size — a Serious Usability Issue
Font Characteristics
Setting and Using Space Within Text
Formatting Blocks of Text
Using Arbitrary Inline Tags: <span>
Hands-on Exercises
More CSS Selectors and Selection
CSS Positioning
Taking Control: Ensuring that CSS Rules Interact in the Way You Want
Combining Styles: Different Types, Origins, Importance, Specificity and Order
Examples: Combining Rules
Cascading and Cascade Order
Resolving Style Conflicts By Origin
Resolving Style Conflicts By Importance
Resolving Conflict By Selector Specificity
Resolving Conflict By Order
Non-CSS Presentational Hints
Property Inheritance
Hands-on Exercises
Deploying CSS
CSS Formatting Versus HTML Formatting
o Achieving a Balance
Standard Tags and Semantic Markup
Usability
o Readable Pages
o Screen Size and Fluid Design
o Text Size, Including Internet Explorer Quirks
Table Layout and CSS Positioning
o Table Layout and CSS Positioning as Alternatives
o Combining Table Layout with CSS Positioning
CSS Browser Support
Testing Websites
o Using Test Suites and Multiple Browsers
o Cross-platform Testing in Single-platform Environments
CSS Help and Advice
o Authorative Sources versus Web Myths and Gossip
Free Lifetime Support
Contents:
Introduction to web site usability Navigation and searching in web site
usability
Pragmatism and methodology
Art versus engineering From page design to site design
Why everyone gets web site Homepages are over-estimated
design wrong the first time Splash screens — just say no
Navigation: the three big
Page design issues in web usability questions
Where am I?
Screen space: the scarcest Where have I been?
resource Where can I go?
User controlled presentation Creating and revealing site
Screen resolution structure
Standard and non-standard Reducing navigational clutter
content Managing subsites or sections
Application versions Search-dominant versus link-
Data lifetimes dominant users
Response times Implementing searching
Connections and partial Presenting search results
downloads Search term usage
Link descriptions Search destination design
Link titles Presenting URLs and domain
Link colours names
Link consistency and site Archival and old URLs
structure Executable links and URLs
Link expectations
Outbound links Web usability testing
Inbound links
Linking to subscriptions and Statistics and methods
registrations Whom to test
Linking from adverts When and where to test
Stylesheets for consistency The test cycle
Stylesheets for separating Conducting a test
content from presentation Observing a test
Fonts and font sizes Interpreting and using results
Text size Using results
Frames: just say no
Frames: more reasons to say no Intranets, accessibility,
If you must use frames internationalisation and usability
Printing issues
Extranets
Content issues in web site usability Intranets
Accessibility
Content is critical and web Visual disabilities
content is different
The value of an editor Auditory and speech disabilities
Discursive style Motor and cognitive disabilities
Keeping texts short Internationalisation and cultural
Checking and copy editing difference
Scannability
Plain English
Managing long texts by chunking
Page titles
Headings, sub-headings, and pull
quotes
Legibility
Understanding image formats
Reducing image file sizes
Multimedia and plugins
Animation
Animation pitfalls
Video
Audio
Downloading and streaming
3D
Conclusion: the attention
economy