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Creating a web site : the missing manual
Author
Title
Creating a web site : the missing manual / Matthew MacDonald.
ISBN
9780596157715
0596157711
9780596554408
0596554400
9780596551087
0596551088
9780596520977
0596520972
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, 2009, ©2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 587 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. If you want to create an engaging web site, this thoroughly revised, completely updated edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence. Whether you want to build a personal web site, an e-commerce site, a blog, or a web site for a specific occasion or promotion, this book gives you detailed instructions and clear-headed advice for:Everything from planning to launching. From picking.
Variant and related titles
O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2020
Series
Missing manual
Contents
Table of Contents; The Missing Credits; About the Author; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; What You Need to Get Started; About This Book; Macintosh and Windows; About the Outline; About> These> Arrows; Downloadable Examples; About MissingManuals.com; Safari® Books Online; Preparing for the Web; Introducing the World Wide Web; Browsers; Choosing your Web browser; Web Servers; Planning a Web Site; Types of Sites; Understanding Your Audience; The Lifespan of Your Site; Practice Good Design; The Ingredients of a Web Site.
Creating Your First PageThe Anatomy of a Web Page; Cracking Open an XHTML Document; Creating Your Own XHTML Files; The Document Type Definition; XHTML Tags; What's in a Tag; Understanding Elements; Nesting Elements; The XHTML Document; The Basic Skeleton; Adding Content; Structuring Text; Where Are All the Pictures?; The 10 Most Important Elements (and a Few More); Checking Your Pages for Errors; Putting Your Page on the Web; How Web Hosting Works; Understanding the URL; How Browsers Analyze a URL; Domain Names; Getting the Right Name; Searching for a Name; Registering Your Name.
Domain parkingDomain forwarding; Free Domain Names; 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 Web Page Editors; Finding a Free Web Page Editor; Nvu; Amaya; HTML-Kit; CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor; Professional XHTML Editors; Working with Your XHTML Editor; Starting Out; Multiple Views.
Creating a Web Page in Code ViewCreating a Web Page in WYSIWYG View; Managing a Web Site; Defining a site in Expression Web; Uploading a site in Expression Web; Defining a site in Dreamweaver; Uploading a site in Dreamweaver; XHTML Text Elements; Understanding Text and the Web; Logical Structure vs. Physical Formatting; CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); XHTML Elements for Basic Text; Paragraphs; Line Breaks; Headings; Horizontal Lines; Preformatted Text; Quotes; Divisions and Spans; XHTML Elements for Lists; Ordered Lists; Unordered Lists; Definition Lists; Nesting Lists; Inline Formatting.
Italics, Bold, and UnderlineEmphasis and Strong; Subscript, Superscript, and Strikethrough; Teletype; Special Characters; Non-English Languages; 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; Keyword sizing; Percentage sizing; Relative sizing; Pixel sizing; Text Alignment and Spacing.
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