Creating Web Sites Bible [Paperback]

Phillip Crowder (Author), David A. Crowder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0470223634 | ISBN-13: 978-0470223635 | Edition: 3

• Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards for creating cutting-edge Web sites for businesses or personal use, this book is one-stop shopping for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, tables, forms, Flash, and more
• Brand-new chapters cover Ajax, Adobe CS3 tools, RSS, and blogging tools
• Hands-on guidance and expert advice dive into such topics as creating and editing images and graphics, adding multimedia elements (e.g., Flash animations, audio, and video), creating stores for Yahoo! and Amazon.com, designing auction pages for eBay, and building blogs

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From the Back Cover

Build your business or personal Web site in a 2.0 world

If you want to build your own Web site in a 2.0 world, you've come to right place. From facing HTML without fear to adding new ?air with multimedia, interactivity, and blogging, this comprehensive guide provides you with everything you need. Loaded with nearly a thousand pages of invaluable techniques and step-by-step instructions, this is your one-stop resource for designing a site, taking it live, keeping it fresh, and moving into the world of e-commerce.

• Learn the Do's and Don'ts of Web development

• Master HTML, CSS, and other design tools

• Keep your Web site lively with color, backgrounds, hotspots, and links

• Understand JavaScript and create dynamic pages

• Add flash with Flash and other multimedia elements

• Get up to speed on Ajax, XHTML, and XML

Companion Web Site
From the book's Web site, you can access most of the programs and documents used in the course of the book, including CSS templates for the tutorials and sample code discussed in each chapter. Check out www.wiley.com/go/creatingwebsites.

About the Author

Philip Crowder of Bristol, Tennessee, is the director of the Computer and Information Management (CIM) program at Virginia Intermont College where he teaches future Web designers and programmers the ins and outs of HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and a variety of other Web languages and technologies. He has also done funded research into computer-based human language translation systems.

David A. Crowder is a professional Web developer, and the author or coauthor of more than 20 books on Web design and development. He has been involved in the online community for more than a decade, and has helped to teach hundreds of thousands of readers to create their own cutting-edge Web sites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 888 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (June 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470223634
• ISBN-13: 978-0470223635
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #572,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of info, but lots of errors, January 4, 2009

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annonymouse "annonymous" (planet earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Web Sites Bible (Paperback)

As of this review, I was on Chapter four.

There is a lot of info packed into this book, but also a lot of errors and typos.

The first tutorial web page they walk a person through on pages 114 / 115 has so many errors that it will not look anything like the finished product on page 116.

I wasted a lot of time attempting to figure out what the errors were, having to search other sections of the book for the proper code elements. THEN I had to play with the code elements to learn that the first example cannot be done the way they presented it!

The first tutorial shows this for aligning a headline center (I had to use parenthesis instead of the lesser than < and greater than > symbols so the actual code would show up here):

(p align"center"") (h3)Making Kimchi using an ordered list(h3)(p)

This does not work. It must look like this:

(h3 align="center") Making Kimchi using an order list(/h3)

The most frequently missing item is the forward slash / that is supposed to be at the end of nearly all HTML tags, according to the authors! They even say "If your screen differs in appearance slightly, don't worry about it."

WHAT GOOD IS A TUTORIAL IF MINE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE EXAMPLE?!

Just be prepared to have to figure stuff out on your own.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers a lot of essential material, November 2, 2008

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This review is from: Creating Web Sites Bible (Paperback)

By necessity, the book is large. It covers almost anything you could want to know about web design and as a novice designer, I've found it a very useful companion and a fascinating read. It covers everything from the history of the internet and basic HTML to embedding videos in your site and using Javascript. The book contains helpful descriptions of useful programs (both commercially available and free/shareware) and some very astute advice that has clearly been overlooked even by sites as successful as Amazon.com!

However, there are a few drawbacks to the book. Even though it has been recently published, the ever-changing world of the web has rendered aspects of the book redundant while leaving out topics such as Google Chrome's browser and Google Adsense. No doubt these will be included in a later edition.

In addition, although the index is fairly extensive, I have found difficulties locating precisely the information I need in the book. Having said that, much of the information you will need is contained in these pages - it's just that you might have to go hunting for it.

In spite of these issues, I'd highly recommend this book to anyone interested in building a web site. It is a very good starting point to get the information you need.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, August 18, 2009

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Ma Young Sam (Seoul, S.Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creating Web Sites Bible (Paperback)

'Creating Web Sites' is a perfect book for anyone interested in learning how to make a website, whether you are a beginner or an expert.

The book is very well organized from the beginning till the end. It gives various user friendly "step-by-step" tutorials as well as great "review" for experienced users.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in creating websites for it is a very well written, well arraged guide to success. Ho Jeong Ma