Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference

by David Schultz, Craig Cook

If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML--the language that the majority of web site content is written in.

Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Youll also learn how to add dynamic behavior to your data using the JavaScript(TM) language.

This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards-compliant and demonstrate best practices--so you won't waste time on outdated, bad techniques. Your web pages will work properly in most web browsers and be accessible to web users with disabilities, easily locatable with popular search engines, and compact in file size.

Even if you already know HTML and CSS basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables at the back, so you can look up all of the troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily.

Bruce Lawson and Gez Lemon acted as technical reviewers of Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML. Bruce and Gez are active members of the Web Standards Project's Accessibility Task Force, and have helped ensure that the book follows guidelines and best practices.

451 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

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Reviews

[Paul]

A "competent" introduction to HTML, Javascript and CSS. It presents the basic information well, but I suspect any eager student would soon want to go beyond the walls of the Table of Contents.

In this case, "From Novice to Professional" should be interpreted as: "From Novice to Not-so-novice"

[John]

Potential book for web development class. Book is a solid foundation on developing a website and students could really follow this book to create a site. The pacing felt good. Also a chapter on the basic of javascript. Could work well in addition to or as a continuation of Elizabeth Castro's book. Would need to supplement with more meaty book on CSS and javascript.