Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS

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

CONTENTS:

Preface.

  
Acknowledgments.

  Part I: Building a Wicked Cool Web Page.

  
Chapter 1: So What’s All This Web Jazz?

  
Chapter 2: Building Your First Web Page: HTML Basics.

  
Chapter 3: Presenting Text Attractively.

  
Chapter 4: Moving into the 21st Century with Cascading Style Sheets.

  
Chapter 5: Lists and Special Characters.

  
Chapter 6: Putting the Web in World Wide Web: Adding Pointers and Links.

  
Chapter 7: From Dull to Cool by Adding Graphics.

  Part II: Rockin’ Page Design Strategies.

  
Chapter 8: Tables and Frames.

  
Chapter 9: Forms, User Input, and the Common Gateway Interface.

  
Chapter 10: Advanced Form Design.

  
Chapter 11: Activating Your Pages with JavaScript.

  
Chapter 12: Advanced Cascading Style Sheets.

  
Chapter 13: Site Development with Weblogs.

  Part III: Expanding Your Page into a Web Site.

  
Chapter 14: Web Sites versus Web Pages.

  
Chapter 15: Thinking about Your Visitors and Your Site’s Usability.

  
Chapter 16: Validating Your Pages and Style Sheets.

  
Chapter 17: Building Traffic and Being Found.

  
Closing Thoughts.

  
Appendix A: Step-by-Step Web Site Planning Guide.

  
Appendix B: Finding a Home for Your Web Site.

  
Index.