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Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
“Learning HTML and CSS has never been so much fun!”
- Build a fully-featured web site from scratch using HTML
- Use CSS to add style to your website and help you with page layout
- Learn the tricks to creating graphics especially for the web
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- Keep people updated by adding a blog to your site
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... should immediately be made required reading for every single course on web design or web development across the world
Roger Johansson 456 Berea St Want to build your very first web site, but not sure where to start? Considering a career involving web design? Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS is the most easy to understand, fun, and comprehensive guide to learning the fundamentals of web development — HTML and CSS. Join web development guru Ian Lloyd (of Accessify, WaSP and Britpack fame) as you build a complete, fully functional web site from the ground up.
What makes this book stand head and shoulders above other introductory guides to HTML is that you’ll learn the latest fully standards-compliant, best-practice techniques from the very beginning.
Armed with the knowledge you’ll gain from this book, you’ll build web sites that:
- Look good on Windows, Mac and Linux computers
- Will function correctly whether your visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or Safari
- Are easy to update and maintain
- Are accessible to disabled users who use screen readers to view your web site
The book also includes a comprehensive XHTML reference, complete with examples of use, which will ensure that this book remains a valuable desk reference for years to come.
What Will I Learn?
Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS's step-by-step tutorial format is so easy to follow, you’ll be able to build professional looking web sites in no time!
...this is not a coffee table book, like so many recently; this is a book of substance, something thats probably going to look well used pretty quickly.
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- Find out where to find all the free tools necessary to build your site
- Become an HTML web design guru
- See how easy it is to style your web pages with CSS
- Learn how to create and convert images for use on web sites
- Get some excellent advice on laying out your page
- Discover how and when to use tables on your pages
- Build a complete, functional web site that you can customize for your own use
- Let your visitors interact with your site using form elements
- Find the best web host for your site and get your site online
- Learn how to add a blog to your site and keep it updated
- Understand who’s visiting your web site using web site statistics
- Let users search your site to find what they're looking for
...And a whole lot more!
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Just about anyone can build web sites by following the easy instructions in this book. Absolutely no prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, or web site design is required; you’ll learn everything from scratch. To get started, all you’ll need is access to a computer and an Internet connection.
Covering both PC and Macintosh equally, Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS uses practical and useful examples to teach you how to write your web pages.
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There’s no need to re-type or re-create any of the examples in the book. As with all our books, you’ll receive instant download access to all the example files used, so you can use them immediately in your own web site.
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Customer Reviews
Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.
I am glad to have your book, as a guide to building my site that I am making sure everyone that comes to my page knows what book taught me.
Thank YOU!
Jerome Pfeifer, USA 
Very good book, particularly helpful in the explanation of how css works - would definitely recommend it.
Helen Francks, USA
Books were received promptly, well packed and in perfect condition. As I was told, the book seems to be the ultimate in its subject matter.
Carl D Brown, USA
This book is very useful and very easy for me to understand. It gave me a good understanding of website building and kept my interest!
Alyson Muse, USA
The book had my business site up in no time. The way Ian explained everything in the book it was almost like sitting next to a personal tutor.
Barbara Scheuermann-Roberts, USA 
Excellent book. I have a little knowledge about html, but your book help me understand CSS.
Andrew H Geriane
Andrew H Geriane, USA
One of the best books on the market. I wish I had found this book years ago before I got started with HTML.
Jacob Tapscott, USA
Your books are great. I teach at a local college and plan on adopting your books for web design and Javascript in future semesters.
Mike K, USA
Very helpful book, I loved that I could preview the chapters and decide if this was the book for me!
Kimberly Sullivan Gray, USA
Very informative, easy to follow. Great way to learn something with no advanced prior knowledge of a computer. I will be looking into the next step that this books suggests I read shortly, thank you!
James Flores, USA
Your books are lucid and well organized, and have helped me understand a number of issues which more "comprehensive" books have confused and obfuscated.
Parker Dooley, USA
love the book !!! it is easy to read and understand, and easy to find things that you are looking for !!!
Patty Bingaman, USA
Great book. Wish it had spent more time about how to work with the various pecularities between browsers.
Daniel Gladstone, USA 
Thank you so much for this book! I learned so much and can't wait to start building a web site.
Sheila
Sheila Pugatch, USA
Product Details
| Edition: |
1st |
| Price: | $29.95 |
| Pages: | 488 |
| ISBN: | 0-9752402-9-3 |
| Pub: | May 2006 |
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