HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pagesIf you’ve ever been curious about any of the multitude of internet acronyms, the web technologies they represent, and how they can benefit you, this book is a great place to start. This book covers all the necessary topics to get up and running with HTML, XHTML, and CSS while offering readers a guide to modern, standards-based design. Key tasks covered in the book include setting up a Web page, reducing image resolution, creating radio buttons, adding a hit counter, adding an embedded sound, adding content from other sites such as integrating a blog and creating an RSS feed. Large topics are broken into smaller, more approachable sub-topics that are clearly explained on two pages eliminating the back and forth page flipping required in other references. Arranged so that skills build progressively throughout the book coupled with bold page headers it is simple to flip through and easily find any section or topic you are looking for. Understandable with straightforward terms that avoid intimidating and unexplained jargon, this is a book that will benefit complete novices and advanced users alike. While primarily focused on the technologies outlined in the title, this book goes on to provide tips on integrating with Google, Flickr, social bookmark sites and even creating and implementing RSS feeds. Rest assured, each of these technologies is explained with the benefits of each outlined. A serious resource that quickly and concisely gets to the point, this book helps you gain real skills that will have you online in short order. Best of all, you can be confident that you are doing so the right way. HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective Web pages offers visual learners a solid reference that employs straight forward examples to teach you to create and design Web pages with impact. "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips and high-resolution screen shots clearly illustrate each task while succinct explanations walk you through the examples. The associated website contains all the needed code to learn HTML. |
Contents
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK | |
Chapter 1 Introducing HTML and XHTML 10 | |
Chapter 2 Introducing HTML Basics | |
Chapter 3 Creating Hyperlinks | |
Chapter 4 Working with Images | |
Chapter 5 Using Tables | |
Chapter 6 Using Lists | |
Chapter 7 Formatting the Text on Your Page | |
Chapter 13 Making Your Site Accessible | |
Chapter 14 Adding Specialized Markup | |
Chapter 15 Creating an RSS Feed | |
Chapter 16 Using Content from Other Sources | |
Chapter 17 Getting Your Site Listed on Search Engines | |
Chapter 18 Testing and Validating Web Pages | |
Chapter 19 Publishing Your Site | |
Appendix A XHTML Reference | |
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HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages Rob Huddleston No preview available - 2008 |