Origins of this Book

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It started innocently enough. I thought I'd pose a simple quiz on my personal web site. A multiple choice question, where each of the answers achieved the same or similar results. Why is one method better than the other? That was to be the real answer to the quiz question.

The goal of the quiz was to show the pros and cons over each method, noting that even multiple methods that are valid markup aren't always necessarily the best solutions. Readers could comment and leave their opinions, and through the discussion came that ammunition I was talking about earlier. If we can understand why it's important to use page headings and proper lists, then we can take that information and apply it to our everyday projects.

It's also important to mention that I'm not trying to dictate singular ways of marking up certain components of a page—like everything in web design, there are multiple ways to achieve the same or similar results. Use what's best for the task at hand—but by understanding the pros and cons of the multiple methods, you can select better choices when the right time comes.

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