New User!
Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
By: Jon DucketteBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wrox
Format: ePub Encrypted (DRM)
Earn $0.50 - Write a Review »
An indispensable introductory guide to creating web pages using the most up-to-date standards
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.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
See more like this in our Computers eBooks section
Share your thoughts on the Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript Computers eBook with others!
| Title of Computers eBook: Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript | |
| Release Date: 01-08-2010 | |
| Allowed Countries (hover) | |
| Publisher: Wrox |
This eBook download is available in the following formats:
| Parent title | Beginning HTML,... |
|---|---|
| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781118057322 |
| File size | 15689 |
| Internet Security | n/a |
| Printing | Not allowed |
| Copying | Not allowed |
| Read aloud | No Sys requirements Download reader |
| Devices | Samsung Tablet, Apple Ipad & Iphone, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, Aluratek Libre, Iliad, Nokia, Blackberry, Hanlin |
| Note | ePub, short for electronic publication is one of our favorites and should be yours for a couple of reasons. ePub offers reflowable text giving you flexibility to manipulate how the content is presented. Moreover, lots of cool features are now being developed for the reader like advanced video and audio. ePub is now an industry standard, so all of the "non-propreitary" hardware manufacturers are now supporting it. |
Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Chapter One
Structuring Documents for the Web
In this chapter, you learn the key concept of creating any web page: how to give it structure. You need to add structure to a document so that web browsers can present the page to people who visit your site in a way they will understand. For example, imagine a news article that contains a headline (or title) and several paragraphs of text; if you wanted to put this article on the Web, you would need to add structure to the words in the document so that the browser knows which words are the headline, and where each paragraph starts and ends. To give a document structure, you'll need to learn how to create web pages using HTML. Or, to be a little more precise, this book focuses on a type of HTML known as XHTML.
In this chapter you will:
Create several example web pages in XHTML.
See how a web page describes its structure to a web browser.
Discover the meaning of some key terms used by web designers, such as elements, attributes, tags, and markup.
By the end of the chapter, you will have learned the basic building blocks needed to build a web page, and will have put this into practice with several examples.
A Web of Structured Documents
Before we create our first web page, let's just take a moment to look at the printed information we see every day, and how it compares to what we see on the Web. Every day, you come across all kinds of printed documents - newspapers, train timetables, insurance forms. You can think of the Web as being a sea of documents that all link toge
...Read full excerpt from Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript ebook









Reward Our Customers.