Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript All in One
Mastering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is vital for any beginning web developer – and the importance of these technologies is growing as web development moves away from proprietary alternatives such as Flash. Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript All in One brings together everything beginners need to build powerful web applications with the HTML and CSS standards and the latest JavaScript and Ajax libraries.
With this book, beginners can get all the modern web development knowledge you need from one expert source. Bestselling author Julie Meloni (Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One) teaches simply and clearly, through brief, hands-on lessons focused on knowledge you can apply immediately. Meloni covers all the building blocks of practical web design and development, integrating new techniques and features into every chapter. Each lesson builds on what’s come before, showing you exactly how to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript together to create great web sites.
Mastering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is vital for any beginning web developer – and the importance of these technologies is growing as web development moves away from proprietary alternatives such as Flash. Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript All in One brings together everything beginners need to build powerful web applications with the HTML and CSS standards and the latest JavaScript and Ajax libraries. Download eBook Free »
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day: Includes New HTML5 Coverage, 6th Edition is the latest edition of the original worldwide bestseller. The entire book has been thoroughly revised and refined to include new detailed coverage of HTML5, the next major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. Work on the HTML5 specification is still ongoing, but parts of HTML5 are already being implemented in new versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Features of Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day: Includes New HTML5 Coverage, 6th Edition:
An in-depth tutorial that helps beginners quickly master the basics of web publishing with HTML and CSS, including the new HTML5 specfication
Includes a detailed look at the new HTML5 specification and how to start using it today
Thoroughly revised and updated sixth edition of the classic web publishing tutorial
Features deeper coverage of CSS and all-new material on using the latest JavaScript libraries, blogging services, and social-web technologies
New To This Edition
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day: Includes New HTML5 Coverage, 6th Edition is one of its most thorough overhauls – estimated at about a 50% revision – since the first edition was published more than 10 years ago.
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, 8th Edition
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage), 8th Edition is a well-organized, clearly written, and generously illustrated tutorial that teaches beginners how to quickly and efficiently create high-quality web pages using the latest HTML and CSS standards.
With a practical focus on the most commonly used components of HTML and CSS, the book’s 24 one-hour lessons carefully guide the reader through each step involved in creating, enhancing, and maintaining web sites of a variety of types and sizes.
The eighth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage), 8th Edition introduces the emerging HTML 5 specification and includes fresh material and examples that take full advantage of the book’s full-color layout and design.
An online interactive learning lab offers the reader a chance to supplement all 24 lessons with step-by-step video walk-throughs of the examples, interactive online quizzes, and all the source files needed to complete the book’s hands-on exercises.
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to use HTML and CSS to design, create, and maintain world-class web sites. Using a clear, down-to-earth approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing even complete beginners to learn the essentials from the ground up.
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage), 8th Edition is a well-organized, clearly written, and generously illustrated tutorial that teaches beginners how to quickly and efficiently create high-quality web pages using the latest HTML and CSS standards.
With a practical focus on the most commonly used components of HTML and CSS, the book’s 24 one-hour lessons carefully guide the reader through each step involved in creating, enhancing, and maintaining web sites of a variety of types and sizes.
The eighth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage), 8th Edition introduces the emerging HTML 5 specification and includes fresh material and examples that take full advantage of the book’s full-color layout and design.
New To This Edition
Updated by bestselling author Julie Meloni, the eighth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage) covers the emerging HTML 5 specification and has been thoroughly updated and revised with new material and examples that take full advantage of the book’s new full color layout and design. A new interactive online learning lab has also been added, with video walk-throughs of the book’s examples, interactive online quizzes, and all the example files needed to complete the book’s hands-on exercises.
Completely updated material and new examples show you what CSS can do
With the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and other browsers released, CSS is more essential than ever. This beginner guide demonstrates how cascading style sheets can be used to define styles to items in Web pages, rather than format each item individually. Each lesson in this full-color book has been methodically revised to be more concise and efficient, making your learning experience as productive as possible.
Covers the latest in CSS, including the new features of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome
Reviews the vast improvements to mobile browsers and how CSS can work with them
Provides helpful examples and walks you through real-world solutions to common hurdles
Discusses embedded fonts, compatibility tables, and cross-browser bug scenarios
Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 3rd Edition gets you completely up to date so that you can start using CSS in the newest Web and mobile browsers today!
Although web standards-based websites can scale effectively-and basic CSS will give you basic results-there are considerations and obstacles that high traffic websites must face to keep your development and hosting costs to a minimum. There are many tips and tricks, as well as down-to-earth best practice information, to make sure that everything runs quickly and efficiently with the minimum amount of fuss or developer intervention. Targeted at “high traffic” websites-those receiving over 10,000 unique visitors a day-Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites gives you inside information from the professionals on how to get the most out of your web development team.
The book covers the development processes required to smoothly set up an easy-to-maintain CSS framework across a large-volume website and to keep the code reusable and modular. It also looks at the business challenges of keeping branding consistent across a major website and sustaining performance at a premium level through traffic spikes and across all browsers. Defensive coding is considered for sites with third-party code or advertising requirements. It also covers keeping CSS accessible for all viewers, and examines some advanced dynamic CSS techniques.
Who this book is for
This book is for Web developers building and maintaining premium, successful, high-traffic websites using web standards. This book will also help team leaders responsible for code that will be shared over multiple projects, as well as project managers with a high churn of contract staff.
Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout
Smashing CSS takes you well beyond the basics, covering not only the finer points of layout and effects, but introduces you to the future with HTML5 and CSS3. Very few in the industry can show you the ins and outs of CSS like Eric Meyer and inside Smashing CSS Eric provides techniques that are thorough, utterly useful, and universally applicable in the real world. From choosing the right tools, to CSS effects and CSS3 techniques with jQuery, Smashing CSS is the practical guide to building modern web layouts.
With Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout you will learn how to:
Throw elements offscreen/hide them
Create body/HTML backgrounds in XHTML
Usemore than 15 layout techniques including clearfix, two/three simple columns, faux columns, One True Layout, Holy Grail, em-based layout, fluid grids, sticky footers, and more
Use a variety of CSS effects including CSS popups, boxpunching, rounded corners, CSS sprites, Sliding Doors, Liquid Bleach, ragged floats, and more
Apply CSS table styling including using thead, tfoot, and tbody, row headers, column-oriented styling (classes); styling data tables with jQuery, tables to graphs, tables to maps; and more
Use CSS3 elements including rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, RGBA, using jQuery to do CSS3 selections and so much more.
Eric Meyer is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, and has been working on the Web since 1993. Smashing CSS is for developers who already have some experience with CSS and JavaScript and are ready for more advanced techniques.
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