Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS

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Completely avoiding web page editors, this guide explains how to create and publish web sites using the HTML, XHTML, and cascading style sheets (CSS) layout and design languages. The more advanced chapters discuss tables and frames for formatting, form tag and attributes, JavaScript tricks, page validation, site navigation, and making web sites accessible to indexing.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Review
“…difficult to fault the quality of information provided…” (PC Utilities, August 2004)


Review
“…difficult to fault the quality of information provided…” (PC Utilities, August 2004)


Book Description
* Walks readers through the process of creating a basic Web site from scratch using HMTL, the basis for billions of Web pages, and then jazzing it up with advanced techniques from the author's award-winning sites
* This updated edition features new material that shows readers how to attract visitors to a site and keep them there, including new JavaScript examples and coverage of cascading style sheets and XHTML, technologies that make building successful Web sites even easier
* Also features exciting new tips and tricks for beginning and advanced users, as well as more expanded examples and samples for users to incorporate in their own sites
* The book moves from basic design and deployment to advanced page layout strategies, showing how to spice up new or existing sites with sound, video, and animation


Download Description
* Walks readers through the process of creating a basic Web site from scratch using HMTL, the basis for billions of Web pages, and then jazzing it up with advanced techniques from the author's award-winning sites
* This updated edition features new material that shows readers how to attract visitors to a site and keep them there, including new JavaScript examples and coverage of cascading style sheets and XHTML, technologies that make building successful Web sites even easier
* Also features exciting new tips and tricks for beginning and advanced users, as well as more expanded examples and samples for users to incorporate in their own sites
* The book moves from basic design and deployment to advanced page layout strategies, showing how to spice up new or existing sites with sound, video, and animation


Book Info
Offers secrets for enticing Web wanderers to stop at particular web sites again and again. Softcover.


From the Back Cover
How to take command of the wide, wonderful Web

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Building your first web site? Maybe you￯﾿ﾽve fooled around a bit with FrontPage or something like it, and you￯﾿ﾽre ready to know what you￯﾿ﾽre doing? Maybe you need to update the basic skills you acquired years ago? Check out Dave Taylor￯﾿ﾽs Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS.

Taylor￯﾿ﾽs designed more than 50 sites and has published 1,000 articles on the Internet and related topics. Perhaps most relevant, he teaches site creation -- both online at the University of Phoenix and offline at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He knows the subject, and he knows how to teach non-experts.

After a quick refresher on how web sites work, Taylor gently walks you through the basics of HTML. (All you￯﾿ﾽll need is Notepad or TextEdit, but these skills will work with any web editor and help you troubleshoot problems those tools sometimes cause.)

Unlike most introductory books, this one introduces Cascading Style Sheets early on. This makes sense. Even though many casual site developers never bother, learning CSS will help you build sites that are more flexible and easier to update.

You￯﾿ﾽll master lists, special characters, pointers, hyperlinks, graphics, tables, frames, and more. There￯﾿ﾽs a detailed introduction to user input via forms, including some fairly advanced concepts (for instance, controlling movement between input boxes). There￯﾿ﾽs a full chapter on weblogs. Then, in the book￯﾿ﾽs final section, Taylor moves ￯﾿ﾽbeyond the page,￯﾿ﾽ to site management: organizing directories, improving usability, and attracting traffic. All in all, this is a solid modern introduction to creating web sites from scratch. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Thinking of launching a Web site or an e-business? Want to jazz up the site you already have? This book is jammed with secrets that entice Web wanderers to stop at your site and return again. You'll find out how to create a basic Web page, enhance it using CSS and JavaScript, morph it into a complete multipage site, add forms, video, and animation, and get a top ranking from leading search engines. Here's the perfect mix of technology and creativity -- the cool stuff you want to do, plus a thorough understanding of the tools that let you do it.

SYNOPSIS

Thinking of launching a Web site or an e-business? Want to jazz up the site you already have? This book is jammed with secrets that entice Web wanderers to stop at your site and return again. You’ll find out how to create a basic Web page, enhance it using CSS and JavaScript™, morph it into a complete multipage site, add forms, video, and animation, and get a top ranking from leading search engines. Here’s the perfect mix of technology and creativity—the cool stuff you want to do, plus a thorough understanding of the tools that let you do it.

Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to maintain consistent formatting for a slick, professional look

Improve the quality of your site with XHTML, the next generation of markup language

Jazz up your site with appropriate use of color, graphics, animation, and sound

Discover how to improve your site design to make it more user friendly

Write your pages to make them search engine friendly and improve your ranking automatically