Murach's HTML, XHTML and CSS

Whether you re just starting out in web development or you d like to update your existing skills, this book gets you off to a fast start! In fact, in just the first 6 chapters, you ll learn more about web development than you can from most full books. By the end of this crash course, you ll be developing web pages the professional way, with HTML or XHTML for the content and CSS for the formatting and page layout. That includes sophisticated page layouts that require the use of the box model, floating, and positioning.In section 2, you ll learn all the other skills that you need for developing web pages. Those skills include how to develop forms that are submitted to web servers, how to add audio or video to a page, how to use a style sheet for printing, how to develop pages for mobile devices…everything you need for modern web pages. You ll also learn how to take your web pages to the next level by using tested JavaScript code for effects like image rollovers and slide shows.In the last section, now that you know how to develop web pages, you ll learn how to design an entire web site using today s best practices. You ll also learn how to deploy your web site, and how to get it into the major search engines and directories. When you re done, you ll have all the perspective and skills you need to develop professional web pages.