Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies

by David Karlins, Doug Sahlin

Ten minibooks in one! The perfect reference for beginning web builders This hefty, 800+ page book is your start-to-finish roadmap for building a web site for personal or professional use. Even if you're completely new to the process, this book is packed with everything you need to know to build an attractive, usable, and working site. In addition to being a thorough reference on the basics, this updated new edition also covers the very latest trends and tools, such as HTML5, mobile site planning for smartphones and tablets, connecting with social media, and more. Plan, build, and maintain a site that does exactly what you need, with Building Web Sites All-In-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition .

Genres: Reference, Self Help, Nonfiction

816 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2012

About the author

David Karlins is the author of several vector illustration books and videos including How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS, Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom (book and video), and Adobe Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild. He is a freelance graphic and interactive design consulting, and teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program.

Reviews

[Joey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before I had read this book, I already knew a lot about HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Joomla, WordPress, SaSS, Bootstrap, etc. But, I did learn a few things through reading and they will most likely help me with my business, and personal websites; I would highly recommend this book for anyone looking to get into Web Design, or to just test out the concept for fun and possibly make one or two sites for yourself, friends, or whomever. This book is gauged for anyone from the ages of around ~12 - ~35-40, mainly because it teaches the reader how to make a website by long-hand code, and also because it can be a gateway to learning even more tech afterwards plus HTML, CSS, and the languages learned are very popular and they have many of the same concepts that other languages use too. If you do not want to get a book on websites, I do also highly recommend learning some Python or some other open source coding for sending commands to objects (such as a robot, or anything else) or i'd also recommend reading books on Hardware instead of Software.

[Bradley Patris · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is now outdated but I realized a few things that I forgot. I can’t believe Wordpress has been around for a long time. It’s a good read but a few things I found in the book aren’t practical anymore such as frames and flash.

[Liam Harper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whilst this was a good read in its own right I did find it heavy going at times. Not due to any of the technological stuff but because from time to time the structuring of the sentences was just bad.

Noticed the odd spelling mistake too. They were only minor things like "amd" instead of "and" but they really should not have made it to print.

Despite all this I found myself enjoying the book and went though it faster then I anticipated.