This unique reference thoroughly documents every important setting and feature in Microsoft's new operating system, with alphabetical listings for hundreds of commands, windows, menus, listboxes, buttons, scrollbars and other elements of Windows Vista. With this book's simple organization, you'll easily find any setting, tool, or feature for the task you want to accomplish.


Along with a system overview that highlights major changes, and a tour of the basics such as manipulating files and getting around the interface, Windows Vista in a Nutshell offers alphabetized references for these topics:

Overview : This is a nuts and bolts coding book. In it are examples showing how to hand-code, in XHTML, sites that include images, links, tables, frames, style sheets?just about everything you might want. There?s also extensive advice on planning your site design, knowing your audience, and doing e-business.

The author?s fundamental approach to effective Web design is what she terms the ?cross-compatibility concept,? which is based upon two principles: creating valid code in the first place and creating code that will cause an older browser to either pass on content it can?t handle or offer ?graceful degradation.? This runs counter to similar books, which advise serving up different content depending upon the user?s browser.

The book is aimed at those who have used Web layout applications like GoLive, Dreamweaver, or FrontPage, but now wish to know more about the underlying code; s well as those who may already know HTML but would like to learn proper XHTML, especially as a step toward learning XML. The author served on the W3C HTML Working Group as an invited expert, and her confident knowledge in this area is evident in her writing.