Web Type Expert: All That You Need to Create Fantastic Web Type (Web Expert)

Taking up where the popular Web Design Expert left off, this in-depth manual explores the most imaginative possibilities of using type on the Web. It all begins with a crash course in the history of typography and font design. After a discussion of the move from paper to screen, there's an introduction to HTML foundations, from tagging to controlling font, leading, color, and size. Find out about embedded font technology, and then go through a comprehensive review of cascading style sheets to see how they can help simplify complex typographic layouts. Bitmap, Acrobat Authoring applications, Flash type handling: they're all here. Throughout, easy-to-follow projects help illustrate every technique and theory.