Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML

by Terry Felke-Morris

  Using Hands-On Practice exercises and Web Site Case Studies to motivate readers, Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, 4e,  includes all the necessary lessons to guide students in developing highly effective Web sites. Key topics include: The Internet and the World Wide Web; XHTML Basics; Configuring Color & Text with CSS; Visual Elements & Graphics; Web Design; Page Layout with CSS; More on Links, Lists & Layout; Tables; Forms; Web Site Development; Web Multimedia & Interactivity; E-Commerce Overview; Promotion for Web Developers; A Brief Look at JavaScript. In the Fourth Edition, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are introduced earlier in the text. Both XHTML and CSS topics receive increased prominence, and are integrated throughout the text. Ethics and accessibility issues receive increased coverage, and a new Design Activities supplement offers hands-on design projects to supplement those presented in the text. For all readers interested in Web design.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference, Computers

650 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

About the author

Dr. Terry Ann Morris publishes under the name of Felke-Morris.

A Professor of Computer Information Systems at Harper College, Dr. Morris has over 20 years of information technology experience with a variety of platforms and software development languages. She began working with the Web in 1996. Dr. Morris has also taught information management and database courses at the graduate level.

Dr. Morris is an innovative instructor and was awarded the 2002-2003 Glenn A. Reich Memorial Award for Instructional Technology in recognition of her efforts. In 2006, she received the 2006 Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Online Course Award for use of Internet technology in the academic environment. Dr. Morris was chosen by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC) as the recipient of their 2008 Outstanding e-Learning Faculty Award for Excellence.

Dr. Morris' academic credentials include a Doctor of Education degree, a Master of Science in Information Systems degree, and a Master Online Teacher Certificate. She also has earned a number of industry certifications including: CIW E-Commerce Designer, CIW Master Site Designer, CIW Certified Instructor, WOW Associate Webmaster, and Adobe Certified Dreamweaver Developer.

Reviews

[Terry Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

We use this book in a community college course for both online and face-to-face classes. The students really like the hands-on approach with examples, practice exercises and case studies. This popular textbook integrates XHTML and CSS topics so students learn from the beginning how to use both XHTML and CSS to configure text, color, and page layout. There is also excellent coverage of web design best practices, accessibility, usability, and Web standards. Related topics such as search engine optimization, the web development process, and e-commerce are also introduced. A bonus is the textbook's companion website at http://webdevfoundations.net that has a page for each chapter with chapter links, additional information, flash review puzzles, iPod review quizzes, and chapter updates.

[Terry Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

We use this book in a community college course for both online and face-to-face classes. The students really like the hands-on approach with examples, practice exercises and case studies. The 4th Edition of this popular textbook integrates XHTML and CSS topics so students learn from the beginning how to use both XHTML and CSS to configure text, color, and page layout. There is also excellent coverage of web design best practices, accessibility, usability, and Web standards. A bonus is the textbook's companion website at webdevfoundations.net that has a page for each chapter with chapter links, additional information, flash review puzzles, iPod review quizzes, and chapter updates.

[Amy Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought the instructions in this book were hard to understand until I started actually doing the examples. They make learning HTML very simple. Of course, I work best by actually doing something rather than just reading. The reading of this complicated text confused the hell out of me. But the book was very helpful as a class companion, and I will be keeping it. Although, I believe even this edition is already out of date, but that's what you get with anything related to technology. Overall, though, this is a great and useful reference!

[Jenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall this is a good source for beginner web and xhtml training. There were a couple of instances in which the instructions given did not match the final sample projects, I used this book in class and was able to verify this with instructor and other students.

But I would say this is a good foundation book.

[Jansen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very basic book - mostly skimmed over it. It had some good ideas for very beginning web design, but you would definitely need additional training before you went out on your own with a full sized site.
p283 Good example of how CSS boxes work
p451 Java script resources
p455 Ajax resources

[Lauri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well organized and easy to understand. Just make sure you get the chapter updates online...there are number of mistakes, omissions, etc. in each chapter.

[Terri Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

WEB/236 Web Design I course

[Lynda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good introduction to the subject. Used it as a textbook for teaching introductory web development.

[Steve lockwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's really good if you do all the examples otherwise not so good.