HTML & CSS

HTML and CSS have dominated web development for more than a decade, but these technologies -- and the ways developers use them -- have accumulated some incredible and intricate junk along the way. In HTML & CSS: The Good Parts, author Ben Henick removes the junk code, the bolted-on parts, and all those ideas that once made sense to reveal a core set of reliable components that will spare you hours of battling browsers and adjusting page layouts. Whether you handcraft individual pages or build templates, HTML & CSS: the Good Parts will help you get the most out of HTML and CSS without being trapped by junk code.

Ben Henick has worked in nearly every aspect of site design and development, from foundation HTML through finicky CSS to larger scale architecture and content management. He has written for A List Apart, the Web Standards Project, and most recently for Opera Software's Web Standards Curriculum.