Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, 8th Edition
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 8th edition (December 20, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0672330970
- ISBN-13: 978-0672330971
eBook Description:
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, 8th Edition
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage), 8th Edition is a well-organized, clearly written, and generously illustrated tutorial that teaches beginners how to quickly and efficiently create high-quality web pages using the latest HTML and CSS standards.
With a practical focus on the most commonly used components of HTML and CSS, the book’s 24 one-hour lessons carefully guide the reader through each step involved in creating, enhancing, and maintaining web sites of a variety of types and sizes.
The eighth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage), 8th Edition introduces the emerging HTML 5 specification and includes fresh material and examples that take full advantage of the book’s full-color layout and design.
An online interactive learning lab offers the reader a chance to supplement all 24 lessons with step-by-step video walk-throughs of the examples, interactive online quizzes, and all the source files needed to complete the book’s hands-on exercises.
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to use HTML and CSS to design, create, and maintain world-class web sites. Using a clear, down-to-earth approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing even complete beginners to learn the essentials from the ground up.
New To This Edition
Updated by bestselling author Julie Meloni, the eighth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage) covers the emerging HTML 5 specification and has been thoroughly updated and revised with new material and examples that take full advantage of the book’s new full color layout and design. A new interactive online learning lab has also been added, with video walk-throughs of the book’s examples, interactive online quizzes, and all the example files needed to complete the book’s hands-on exercises.
- Full-color figures and clear step-by-step instructions help you learn quickly.
- Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn.
- Quizzes and Exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills.
Learn how to:
- Build your own web page and get it online in an instant
- Format text for maximum clarity and readability
- Create links to other pages and to other sites
- Add graphics, color, and visual pizazz to your web pages
- Work with transparent images and background graphics
- Design your site’s layout and typography using CSS
- Get user input with web-based forms
- Publicize your site and make it search-engine friendly
- Test a web site for compatibility with different browsers
- Make your site easy to maintain and update as it grows
Free Access to Online Learning Lab
Register your book at informit.com/register for free, exclusive access to the Online Learning Lab to supplement this book’s lessons:
- Video walkthroughs to show you how to complete the step-by-step examples in the book
- Fast and fun online quizzes to test your understanding of each lesson
- Updates or corrections as they become available
Author Bios
Julie C. Meloni
Julie C. Meloni is the technical director for i2i Interactive (http://www.i2ii.com), a multimedia company located in Los Altos, California. She has been developing web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI web browser. She has authored numerous books and articles on web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in 15 different languages. She is also a fervent blogger and is the author of Sams Teach Yourself Blogging in a Snap. Most days, Julie can be found wandering the halls of Avery Hall on the campus of Washington State University, where she is a Ph.D. student in English who is quite interested in digital/social scholarship in the humanities.
Julie C. Meloni is both the technical director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA, and a scholar working in the field of Digital Humanities. She has written several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, including the bestselling Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache All in One.
Michael Morrison
Michael Morrison is a professional Java programmer. He is also an experienced author who has a lot of experience writing to Java programmers with a wide range of experience. Michael is the author of Presenting JavaBeans, and SamsTeach Yourself Internet Game Programming with Java in 21 Days; he is also a contributing author to Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition, Late Night Visual J++, and Platinum Edition Using HTML 4.0, Java 1.1, and JavaScript 1.2.
Michael Morrison is a writer, developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of computer technology books and interactive web-based courses. In addition to his primary profession as a writer and freelance nerd for hire, Michael is the creative lead at Stalefish Labs, an entertainment company he co-founded with his wife, Masheed.
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