Layout lessons

Experience. All the same, this is an invaluable treasure, you cannot buy it, lend it, you can only get it yourself. Learn, learn and learn, as the well-known grandfather of all the Octobrists used to say. However, experience comes faster and is absorbed better if a person, along with obtaining academic knowledge, is practiced, practiced and practiced.

At one time, web developers and forums on which they shared their practical knowledge on the topic of the layout of hypertext documents helped me a lot. This helped me a lot in quickly learning the right approach to layout. Before my insight, I adhered to the old “tabular” typesetting school for 5 years;

Today, the accumulated experience simply puts pressure on the cranium from the inside and I want to share it in turn with the new generation. And in order to somehow streamline the publication of my materials on the layout, I decided to do something like an e-book. It seems to me that it will be easier for me to submit the material and for you to perceive it. Maybe this work will even grow sometime in print, who knows ...

In general, at the moment I decided to publish materials in approximately the following order:

1. Literature and electronic materials.
2. Toolkit: editors.
3. Toolkit: browsers and plugins.
4. Toolkit: utilities and web services.
5. Introduction to the layout of hypertext documents.
6. Webstandards: the theory of separation of content and presentation.
7. Choosing technology: HTML, XHTML, CSS.
8. Introduction to selectors.
9. The specificity of selectors.
10. The base style file and the recommendations of "good" CSS.
11. CSS block model.
12. Typical markup.
13. Work with text and fonts.
14. The concept of bugs and methods of dealing with them.
15. Filtering styles.
16. Work with graphics.
17. Practice and experiments.

As long as I see it so, there may be corrections in the course of writing and publication. This little project I’ll name for now, for example, CSS Book. In a month I plan to write 3-4 posts that will be published in the blog feed. I also created a separate CSS Book page on which a table of contents of a possible future book will be collected =).
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Each post on this topic from my blog , as usual, will be duplicated here on Habré in the topic Cascading Style Sheets .