Web Publishing with HTML and CSS

Lesson 1. Navigating the World Wide Web A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and here you are at the beginning of a journey that will show you how to write, design, and publish pages on the World Wid...

Lesson 2. Preparing to Publish on the Web When you write a book, a paper, an article, or even a memo, you usually don't just jump right in with the first sentence and then write it through to the end. The same goes with...

Lesson 3. Introducing HTML and XHTML After finishing up the discussions about the World Wide Web and getting organized, with a large amount of text to read and concepts to digest, you're probably wondering when you're a...

Lesson 4. Learning the Basics of HTML Over the first three days, you learned about the World Wide Web, how to organize and plan your websites, and why you need to use HTML to create a web page. Yesterday, you even creat...

Lesson 5. Adding Links to Your Web Pages After finishing yesterday's lesson, you now have a couple of pages that have some headings, text, and lists in them. These pages are all well and good, but rather boring. The rea...

Lesson 6. Formatting Text with HTML and CSS In Lessons 4, quot;Learning the Basics of HTML,quot; and 5, quot;Adding Links to Your Web Pages,quot; you learned the basics of HTML, including tags used to describe page stru...

Lesson 7. Adding Images, Color, and Backgrounds If you've been struggling to keep up with all the HTML tags I've been flinging at you the last couple of days, this lesson will be easier. In this Lesson In fact, in thi...

Lesson 8. Building Tables So far in this book, you've used plain vanilla HTML to build and position the elements on your pages. Although you can get your point across using paragraphs and lists, there's another way to p...

Lesson 9. Creating Layouts with CSS In the past few lessons, I've discussed how to lay out web pages using HTML tags. Today, I'm going to describe how you can create complex pages using cascading style sheets (CSS). In...

Lesson 10. Designing Forms Up to this point, you've learned almost everything you need to know to create functional, attractive, and somewhat interactive web pages. If you think about it, however, the pages you've creat...

Lesson 11. Integrating Multimedia: Sound, Video, and More Learning how to integrate multimedia into your web pages is as simple as creating hyperlinks to sound or video files. Presto! You've added multimedia to your web...

Lesson 12. Introducing JavaScript JavaScript is a scripting language for adding functionality to HTML pages. Its scripts are embedded in HTML files and run completely within the browser. JavaScript turns the browser int...

Lesson 13. Using JavaScript in Your Pages Now that you have some understanding of what JavaScript is all about, you're ready to look at some practical applications of JavaScript. In this Lesson Today, you'll learn how...

Lesson 14. Working with Frames and Linked Windows In the early days of the Web, two significant limitations of web browsers were that they could only display one document in a browser window at a time and that sites cou...

Lesson 15. Creating Applications with Dynamic HTML and AJAX Dynamic HTML offers you something unique: the capability to make changes in web pages on the fly. Using conventional HTML, web pages are loaded by a browser an...

Lesson 16. Writing Good Web Pages: Do's and Don'ts You won't learn about any HTML tags today, or how to convert files from one strange file format to another. You're mostly done with the HTML part of web page design. Ne...

Lesson 17. Designing for the Real World In previous lessons, you learned about what you should and shouldn't do when you plan your website and design your pages. You also learned about what makes a good or bad website....

Lesson 18. Putting Your Site Online The catchphrase quot;If you build it, they will come,quot; from the movie Field of Dreams notwithstanding, just uploading your site to a web server somewhere doesn't mean that you'll...

Lesson 19. Taking Advantage of the Server Over the course of this book, you've learned a lot about designing web pages, and just about everything you've learned would work equally well whether you put your pages on a we...

Lesson 20. Understanding Server-Side Processing At this point, you've learned how to publish websites using HTML. This lesson takes things a step further and explains how to build dynamic websites using scripts on the s...

Lesson 21. Using Tools to Make Publishing Easier Throughout the course of this book, you've learned how to build websites by hand, creating HTML pages one by one. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use applications to...