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This beginner guide shows you how to use XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create compelling Web sites. While learning these technologies, you will discover coding practices such as writing code that works on multiple browsers including mobile devices, how to use AJAX frameworks to add interactivity to your pages, and how to ensure your pages meet accessible requirements.
Packed with real–world examples, the book not only teaches you how to write Web sites using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, but it also teaches you design principles that help you create attractive web sites and practical advice on how to make web pages more usable. In addition, special checklists and appendices review key topics and provide helpful references that re–enforce the basics you′ve learned.
- Serves as an ideal beginners guide to writing web pages using XHTML
- Explains how to use CSS to make pages more appealing and add interactivity to pages using JavaScript and AJAX frameworks
- Share advice on design principles and how to make pages more attractive and offers practical help with usability and accessibility
- Features checklists and appendices that review key topics
This introductory guide is essential reading for getting started with using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript to create exciting and compelling Web sites.
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Since the web was first created, the languages used to build web sites have been constantly evolving. Now a set of best practices has emerged using HTML or XHTML to create your basic web pages, CSS to control their appearance and make them look attractive, and JavaScript to add interactivity. Without assuming any previous experience, this valuable resource makes it easy to learn how to build web sites using the most up–to–date web standards. Whether you′re a beginner eager to start writing your first web page or a more experienced programmer seeking to update your skills, you will find practical introductions to these essential languages, as well as invaluable tips and techniques used by experienced web professionals.
How to create HTML and XHTML pages that incorporate links, images, tables, audio, and video
Ways to use CSS to control text, colors, backgrounds, and page layout
Design principles employed by experienced designers to create attractive layouts
The basics of JavaScript and working with AJAX libraries
How to build sites that are accessible, easy to use, and will work on a variety of devices including mobile phones
How to test your web site and put it on the web
First–hand experience of coding practices commonly used in the real world
The elements of basic text formatting
Text markup and character entities for special characters
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
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The approach here is to introduce the presentational use of HTML early on, and to think that by labeling each section and tag as "deprecated", that's an excuse - it isn't. Separation of markup and presentation needs to be explained from the outset, and when new readers are first taught presentation it should be through the use of CSS.
CSS is introduced here. It's a poor treatment, based (as usual) on explaining CSS properties one by one, rather than showing how to use the CSS tools to achieve page design tasks. In particular, the crucial technique of float is barely mentioned.
My recommendation for HTML + CSS texts is still Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, followed up by Lie and Bos' Cascading Style Sheets. Those are two that not only teach correct descriptions of the tools, they also teach the right approaches for producing modern, best practice work.
There is, however, one huge and frustrating drawback. Either in the book or in the code that can be downloaded in tandem with the text, there are just too many careless errors and discrepancies. One can almost count on any exercise or example's having at least one misleading mistake. Many errors are just obvious looking at material on the printed page (as just typical examples: Why would there be two "TO:" boxes on an e-mail form? see page 212; why isn't there a "<" to start the first line of code on page 233?).
This is a text that has been through a number of editions; in light of that legacy, to find so many errata in a text for beginners is frustrating. It does not speak well of the editing precisions one would think a publisher seemingly as authoritative as Wrox would exercise.
My problem comes from the "Example Cafe" website, which is the website you build and add to throughout the book. The code examples found on the publisher's website seem like they were made out of sync with the the book itself. A lot of examples include code never explained or shown before, code that's just plain wrong as well as things implemented but never requested from the website. I don't copy and paste, so these errors aggravate me. I almost spend as much time breaking down the example code and figuring out where the editors messed up as I am actually implementing features into my practice site. It's annoying and frustrating.
As a reference, very well structured and explained. As an exercise resource, aggravating and not worth using.
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