From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites.

Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair.

Whether you're building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.

Discover how to:
* Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site
* Design with users in mind
* Work with HTML and CSS
* Optimize graphic elements for the Web
* Build your site with e-commerce functionality

 

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the World Wide Web altered the face of the Internet and of personal computing forever. One time regarded as the province of universities and government organizations, the Internet has grown to touch more and more lives every day. In addition, the multimedia content that can be provided via HTML (and its successor XHTML) and Web technologies such as JavaScript, Java, XML, CGI, and others makes the Web an exciting place to be.

Through the efforts of standards organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium, and companies such as Netscape, Microsoft, Macromedia, and Sun Microsystems, HTML and the other languages and technologies used to present information over the Web have continued to develop and evolve. The number of possibilities for providing information content over the Web is astounding, and it's growing every day.

That is where Platinum Edition Using XHTML, XML, and Java 2 steps in to help. This book is the only source you need to quickly get up to speed and greatly enhance your skill and productivity in providing information on the World Wide Web.

This book was designed and written from the ground up with two important purposes:

1. First, Platinum Edition Using XHTML, XML, and Java 2 makes it easy for you to find the most effective means of accomplishing any task or presenting almost any kind of information on the Web.

2. Second, this book covers the major Web technologies—not only HTML, XHTML, XML, and Java, but also JavaScript, Microsoft's VBScript scripting language, CGI, and both Microsoft and Netscape's implementations of Dynamic HTML—in a depth and breadth that you won't find anywhere else. There is also a Web site that goes with the book, where you can find links to Web software, helpful documentation, and code from the examples in this book, at www.mcp.com.

With these goals in mind, how do you use this book?

If you are familiar with HTML and with setting up Web pages and Web sites, you can probably skim through the first chapter to see what some of the issues in page and site design are, and you can glance through the basic XHTML elements discussed in the other chapters in the first part of the book. If you are familiar with HTML, a lot of the information in this part will be new to you, as it discusses XHTML, the XML-compliant implementation of the HTML 4.0 standard. You can then read the advanced chapters on XHTML, as well as the sections on other Web technologies, such as JavaScript and Java, XML, ASP, CGI, and Dynamic HTML, to determine which of those elements you want to include in your Web pages.

Platinum Edition Using XHTML, XML, and Java 2 was written with the experienced HTML programmer in mind. Your experience might be limited to a simple Web home page you threw together, or you might be designing and programming professional Web sites. Either way, you will find comprehensive coverage of HTML and other Web technologies. Throughout the book, techniques are described for creating quality, effective Web pages and Web sites.

 

If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You'll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You'll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You'll practice what you've learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.

This book will help you:

• Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming
• Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
• Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
• Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
• Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library
• Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment
• Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications

 

This tutorial explores the use of the new Dynamic HTML technologies from both Microsoft and Netscape. The book teaches the new Dynamic HTML tags and concepts like the Document Object Model in a clear, step-by-step manner with lots of practical examples. The CD-ROM includes electronic versions of "Teach Yourself JavaScript" and "Teach Yourself VBScript".

As the title suggests, Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week is a straightforward tutorial, designed to provide you with enough information and practice to quickly begin coding for 4.0 browsers. While some titles lump multiple HTML topics together under the "Dynamic HTML" banner, this one sticks strictly to its subject, covering both Netscape and Microsoft implementations of scripting, HTML, and style sheets to create dynamic and interactive content. Advanced topics, such as the integration of multiple languages and objects into your Web site design, are also considered. Each chapter represents a day's lesson plan and covers a single topic in depth. Workshop and wrap-up sections are included in each lesson for hands-on practice. The appendices provide excellent reference for HTML 4, JavaScript, VBScript, and cascading style sheets. All of the included source code and HTML examples--as well as recommended Web creation utilities and electronic versions of related titles--are available on the book's companion Web site.

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