HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies 1st Edition by Andy Harris (PDF)

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Want to build a killer Web site? Want to make it easy to keep your site up to date? You’ll need to know how CSS, HTML, and XHTML work together. HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies makes that easy too! These eight minibooks get you started, explain standards, and help you connect all the dots to create sites with pizzazz. This handy, one-stop guide catches you up on XHTML basics and CSS fundamentals. You’ll learn how to work with Positionable CSS to create floating elements, margins, and multi-column layouts, and you’ll get up to speed on client-side programming with JavaScript. You’ll also get the low-down on server side programming with PHP, creating a database with MySQL, and using Ajax on both client and server sides. You’ll find out how to:Use templates and validatorsManage information with lists and tablesTurn lists of links into button barsAdd style color and bordersCreate variables for dataAdd motion with basic DOM animationWork with arraysAdd Flash functionality with AFLAXBuild and manage a multipage siteChoose and run your own serverYou don’t need expensive or complicated software or a super-powerful computer to build a Web site that does all sorts of amazing things. All you need is a text editor and the clear, step-by-step guidance you’ll find in HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover 8 books in 1 — your key to developing powerful Web applicationsYour one-stop guide to using CSS with XHTML to create dynamic sitesThings move quickly on the Web, and you want to make it easy to keep yoursite up to date. So you’ll want to know how HTML, XHTML, and CSS worktogether, and this book makes that easy! Handy minibooks get you started, explain how to use the most up-to-date standards, and show you how to put it all together for sites with pizazz.Discover how to:Use templates and validatorsManage information with lists and tablesAdd style, color, and bordersCreate powerful applications with AjaxAdd interactivity to your Web site About the Author Andy Harris began his teaching life as a special education teacher. As he was teaching young adults with severe disabilities, he taught himself enough computer programming to support his teaching habit with freelance programming. Those were the exciting days when computers started to have hard drives, and some computers began communicating with each other over an arcane mechanism some were calling the Internet. All this time Andy was teaching computer science part time. He joined the faculty of the Indiana University/Purdue University — Indianapolis Computer Science department in 1995. He serves as a Senior Lecturer, teaching the introductory course to Freshmen as well as numerous courses on Web development, general programming, and game programming. As manager of the Streaming Media Laboratory, he developed a number of online video-based courses, and worked on a number of international distance education projects including helping to start a computer science program in Tetevo, Macedonia FYR. Andy is the author of several other computing books, including Beginning Flash Game Programming For Dummies and Game Programming: The L Line. He invites your comments and questions at andy@aharrisbooks.net. Chris McCulloh has a bachelor’s degree in Media Arts and Science from Indiana University/Purdue University — Indianapolis (IUPUI), a certificate in Applied Computer Science from the Computer and Information Science Department (CSCI) at IUPUI, and is a full-time PHP Developer working at CIK Enterprises. He loves to teach, write, and read, and is currently teaching server-side programming for CSCI at IUPUI. He writes a programming-related blog on his Flash game site at blog.chomperstomp.com, and maintains a popular Firefox extension located at statusbarcalculator.com.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐A great beginner book…I think it deserves 4.5 stars but am rounding it up to 5 because you can’t beat all this info for the price. It includes all the basics of web development, and includes ways to create a website for FREE (open-source options). This does have minimal web design ideas (but the book never claimed to be a design idea book). It explains how to design but you have to research what designs you want on your own (I picked up an additional web design book for this “The Web Designer’s Idea Book”).Why I deducted .5 star:-The book mainly focuses on using Irfanview (an open-source graphics editing program) but was (or still is?) not available for Mac.So I had to pick up a book on GIMP to figure out how to use it. GIMP is said to be much more powerful than Irfanview anyway.-Figuring out how to set up XAMPP (a practice server) on a Mac took quite a bit of research (the book did not cover this too well but you can find all of this on XAMPP (Apache) discussion posts.I bought this book in 2008 so the software cd it comes with may be outdated but since the software is open-source, you can download it all free on the internet. It’s weird now seeing all of these words in my review like open-source, XAMPP, Apache, and GIMP, that seemed so foreign and intimidating when I first started but now they are just second nature. Really, a great beginner’s book!

⭐If you’ve never programmed before and want to get a solid web technologies background I think this is the best choice for you (and me) I Found this book very easy to follow and the best of it is the fact that everything you see in the book could be applied using open source technologies, the author give you some clues on what tools to use for authoring your projects (like aptana); while digging into this book I found quanta+ the best tool for developing xhtml, css and javascript (but is not mentioned by the author, not that I remember), although you can use whatever you want I do recommend this tool for this tasks as it is very easy including even wysiwyg (what you see is what you get), although if you really want to learn xhtml I don’t recommend this option. Once you master this book and get a solid understanding and background on it you’ll be prepared for a more advanced book and indeed you should pickup one that talk just about one or two of the technologies. I’m very happy with this book.

⭐This book allowed me to make my first foray into web development, and it continues to be a good desk reference, since inevitably I’ll forget some required attribute when building various pages. I still haven’t gotten through the last two minibooks, but if you have no knowledge of how the internet works, you can start from page 1 and read the first 6 minibooks, and then write your own webpage. This book really does explain it that well. My only complaint is that the book explains things so simply that if you want to really start making your webpage look good, you’ll come up a bit short. I’ve bought an additional book for php so that I can do more advanced programming, and I’m starting to learn Adobe Fireworks so I can do some more attractive layouts. For the rough basics, however, this was a great buy.

⭐My passion has always been to design web sites, but it has been eleven years since I took web design in college. Obviously, there have been many changes in the past eleven years in web languages, and I felt the HTML, XHTML and CSS for Dummies book would be my best source for getting my web site, […], acceptable. I am still diligently working on this site, and reference this book daily for web design sources and understanding. I can’t imagine using any other books at this stage of web designing. HTML, XHTML, and CSS for Dummies has answered all my questions, and has helped me understand the new and complex design options for the apprentice web designer. I highly recommend this book for those starting out or have been away from web design for a while.

⭐I am now just completing my fifth website after reading Andy Harris’ excellent book. True, I did read another CSS book (the missing manual) but it just re-emphasized what Mr Harris had already said in his book. This is a great book for beginners and it will make you capable of doing websites and getting gray hair trying to figure out Microsoft’s different versions of Internet Explorer. (I now keep a special file on all the “hacks” I’ve had to do to get IE6 and IE7 to look like IE8 (I especially love the fact that that the letter “m” inserted in CSS code makes IE8 code work in IE7. Who knows why.) Buy this book, use it, and you will reap the joy of client side programming.

⭐While this book is rather basic in respect to HTML and CSS and is little more than an introduction to those topics, it presses the reader on toward an understanding of modern web site techniques such as positional CSS for layout, client-side programming in JavaScript, it introduces PHP and AJAX, plus maps out the use of databases in a web site. Great stuff.It also covers tools to use to create web pages and in this becomes a very comprenhesive handbook indeed, indispensable to the beginner. What I liked especially is its refutation of so-called web-page software such as Front Page and Dreamweaver as not the best way to write good, conformant web pages (making Andy Harris a co-religionary of mine). I’ve written web pages for over a decade and every flirtation with such tools has been an exercise in frustration and misery. Andy shows you why with just a little imagination you can make better pages that will validate and not have to spend time learning those tools, which is a harder exercise than learning HTML and CSS.For the price, it’s an excellent survey of web technologies. This book is at least twice as thick as any other for Dummies book I own, but it’s a good, solid introduction, roadmap and handbook, and easily navigable.

⭐This is indeed a perfect book for a beginner its not just informative but its a great light reading. To be a good teacher is not enough just to know the material one have to have teaching talant that Andy Harris unquestionably have.If a question pops into your head during the reading you will probably have the answer in the next two sentences.I highly recommend this book its clear, written with great sense of humorand its truly all you need to start your way in the web developing world.

⭐ok

⭐massive book slightly outdated but still relevant and worth learning. well written and easy to follow, came with disk too new and sealed. great seller

⭐present really happy with receivers comments good buy!

⭐It was not dispatched on the same day as promised, in fact it took quite some days before I received it. Condition of the book was sort of ok, but less than what I had expected from the description.

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