Creating web sites : the missing manual / Matthew MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Matthew.

Series:

Missing manual.

Missing manual series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (561 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing : Pogue Press/O'Reilly, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. For anyone who wants to create an engaging web site--for either personal or business purposes--Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence. Like every Missing Manual, you can count on Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual to be entertaining and insightful and complete with all the vital information, clear-headed advice, and detailed instructions you need to mast

Contents:

The Anatomy of a Web PageCracking Open an HTML Document; Creating Your Own HTML Files; The HTML Tag; What's in a Tag; Container Tags and Standalone Tags; Nesting Tags; The HTML Document; Adding a Title; Line Breaks and Text Flow; Where Are All the Pictures?; The 10 Most Important Tags (and a Few More); Common Mistakes; Missing a closing tag; Endless tags; Handling special characters with caution; XHTML; Creating a Valid XHTML Page; The basics; The document type definition; A valid XHTML page; Putting Your Page on the Web; How Web Hosting Works; Understanding the URL

How Browsers Analyze the URLDomain Names; Searching for a Name; Getting the Right Name; Registering Your Name; Domain parking; Domain forwarding; Getting Web Space; The Big Picture; Assessing Your Needs; A Web host checklist; Choosing Your Host; Your ISP (Internet Service Provider); Web Hosting Companies; A Web host walkthrough (#1); A Web host walkthrough (#2); Free Web Hosts; Transferring Files; Browser-Based Uploading; FTP; Power Tools; Choosing Your Tools; Types of HTML Editors; Finding a Free HTML Editor; Nvu; HTML-Kit; CoffeeCup; Professional HTML Editors; Working with Your HTML Editor

Starting OutMultiple Views; Creating a Web Page; Managing a Web Site; Defining a site in FrontPage; Uploading a site in FrontPage; Defining a site in Dreamweaver; Uploading a site in Dreamweaver; HTML Text Tags; Understanding Text and the Web; The Problem of Layout; Logical Structure vs. Physical Formatting; CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); Basic Text Tags; Paragraphs; Line Breaks; Headings; Horizontal Lines; Preformatted; Quotes; Divisions; HTML Tags for Lists; Ordered Lists; Unordered Lists; Definition Lists; Nesting Lists; Inline Formatting; Italics, Bold, and Underline; Emphasis and Strong

Subscript, Superscript, and StrikethroughTeletype; Special Characters; Style Sheets; Style Sheet Basics; The Three Types of Styles; Browser Support for CSS; The Anatomy of a Rule; Applying a Style Sheet; Internal style sheets; Inline styles; The Cascade; Inheritance; Colors; Specifying a Color; Hexadecimal color values; RGB color values; Finding the Right Color; Fonts; Specifying a Font; Finding the Right Font; Font Sizes; Absolute sizes (keywords and percentages); Relative sizes; Exact sizes (pixels); Text Alignment and Spacing; Alignment; Spacing; Borders; Basic Borders

Making Better Borders

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781491909560

1491909560

9780596518608

0596518609

OCLC:

775301487