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Build Your Own
Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition

Start Building Web Sites Like a Pro!

What Will You Learn?

If you’re a newbie to web design, but you’re passionate about learning to build web sites, then Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition is a must-have. In this easy-to-follow guide you’ll learn how to build a web site the best way possible – by doing it yourself! 

Ian will help you along, but by following this step-by-step guide to building an example web site, you’ll find that the training wheels will be off before you know it.  You’ll start from scratch, learning which basic tools you need to get started (text editors, web browsers and FTP clients), and by the end of the book you’ll be ready to add some real flair to your fully functioning web site. 

With this book, you’ll learn how to implement features that are crucial to web site development, such as:

• easy to use navigation
• a professional-looking header
• a regularly updated News/Events section
• a Contact Us page
• a simple Image gallery
• a search engine that covers your site, as well as related sites
• and much more ...

What’s All The Fuss About The New Edition?

Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition is widely regarded as the definitive beginner’s guide to building web sites.  We’ve taken on board hundreds of reviews and suggestions from the 1st Edition, and used your feedback to craft this brand new 2nd Edition into something special. 

Ian has used his understanding of cutting edge advances in web development to bolster the book, so it’s compatible with all web browsers (including IE8) and incorporates brand new tools such as Google Analytics. 

In short, the definitive beginner’s guide is even better!

About the Author

Ian is a UK-based senior web designer/developer who has written or co-written many web development books, including SitePoint’s The Ultimate HTML Reference.  He currently runs accessify.com (a web accessibility site that he started in 2002) and is a regular speaker at web development conferences such as South By Southwest (SXSW).

What’s Inside?

Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop

Learn where to get all the tools you’ll need to build your own web site for free!

Chapter 2: Your First Web Pages

Explore XHTML and understand the basic requirements of every web page.  Then, begin to build the example web site.

Chapter 3: Adding Some Style

What’s so good about CSS?  You’ll learn this, and how to begin putting it into practice.  Web links, colors, and changing the appearance of text will be covered also.

Chapter 4: Shaping Up With CSS

Expands on Chapter 3’s introduction to CSS, focusing on border styles and page layouts. You’ll also learn to use CSS to position the elements of a web page.

Chapter 5: Picture This! Using Images on Your Web Site

Differentiate between inline and background images, as well as learning to adjust pictures to suit your web site.

Chapter 6: Tables: Tools for Organizing Data

Learn when, and when not, to use tables. Pick up some CSS tricks that will make your tables sparkle.

Chapter 7: Forms: Interacting with Your Audience

What’s required to build a form, and what you can do with the data. Crucially, learn how to use a free web service to get the data emailed to you.

Chapter 8: Launching Your Web Site

Make the jump from hobby web site on your home computer to the real deal on a web server, where the world will see it.

Chapter 9: Adding a Blog to Your Web Site

Learn what a blog is, and how to set one up.  Look at ways to make the blog design consistent with the design of your web site.

Chapter 10: Pimp My Site: Cool Stuff You Can Add for Free

Discover all kinds of tools, add-ons and plugins that you can use to shift your design from functional to fabulous.

Chapter 11: Where to Now? What You Can Learn Next

The final chapter summarizes the skills you’ve learnt throughout the book, and discusses the options at your disposal to expand on these skills.

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Who Should Read This Book?

This book is a beginner’s guide to building web sites, and so it assumes no prior knowledge of web design or development.  If you’re a competent computer user who loves using the Web, but are unsure what a Cascading Style Sheet is or what XHTML means, then you’re at the perfect level.

And by the time you’ve finished reading Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition, you’ll be perfectly placed to explore more advanced topics like JavaScript or server-side programming languages like PHP.

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