Product Description

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML and CSS teaches you web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or Web Development techniques.

However, unlike the countless other "learn web design" books, this title concentrates on modern, best-practice techniques from the very beginning.

This book will introduce you to HTML and CSS, while you follow along with the author, step-by-step, in creating a fully functional Website. Along the way, you'll learn how to apply Web Standards to make your site fast loading, easy to maintain, viewable in almost every Web Browser, as well as accessible to disabled users.

By the end of the book, you'll be equipped with enough knowledge to set out on your first steps as a professional web developer, or you can simply use the knowledge you've gained to create attractive, functional, usable and accessible sites for personal use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6079 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 488 pages

Synopsis
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up. However, unlike countless other "learn web design" books, this title concentrates on modern, best-practice techniques from the very beginning, which means you'll get it right the first time. The web sites you'll build will: Look good on a PC, Mac or Linux computer Render correctly whether your visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Safari Use web standards so your sites will be fast loading and easy to maintain Be accessible to disabled users who use screenreaders to browse the Web By the end of the book, you'll be equipped with enough knowledge to set out on your first projects as a professional web developer, or you can simply use the knowledge you've gained to create attractive, functional, usable and accessible sites for personal use.

About the Author
Ian works as a senior Web designer for Nationwide Building Society where he's largely responsible for promoting the Web accessibility ethic. Ian is also a member of the Web Standards project which aims to promote best-practices among Web Developers and software companies. Outside of this, Ian's also responsible for a site devoted to accessibility, called Accessify.

Customer Reviews

What an excellent introduction to xhtml and css
Well after reading the excellent reviews on here for this book and browsing through the sitepoint.com website itself with the huge forum. I finaly decided to order it from amazon.co.uk. I ordered it on Monday at 06.20am. It arrived the next morning. (Excellent service) It's only taken me until today (Friday) to complete the book and the website that you get guided through to completion on. What a great book. I feel as though i've learnt loads in just 4 days ! I've just this morning received my next book "CSS - The missing manual".

Highly recommend this book

The only book to begin learning HTML and CSS
This book is great for somebody completely new to HTML and CSS. It will take you through building a site painlessly. I can tell you that what you'll be learning is fully W3C compliant coding (as it should be) so you don't have to worry about this book being out of date or simply wrong.

Pick up the free sample chapter on sitepoint.com if you don't believe me.

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If there is one book I would recommend to anyone with an interest in creating a website then this would be it. The book is an excellent introduction to not only XHTML and CSS but also the main features that make up a website. In a light-hearted, easy-to-read way, it covers topics such as use of graphics, form creation, website hosting options and even blogging. And if that's not enough, it ends by giving you pointers on what you could go on to learn. Most importantly for a beginners guide to web design, it gives an excellent grounding in creating websites using web standards ... no table based design here ...