HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

A new edition of a bestseller covers the latest advances in web development!

HTML5 and CSS3 are essential tools for creating dynamic websites and boast updates and enhanced features that can make your websites even more effective and unique. This friendly, all-in-one guide covers everything you need to know about each of these technologies and their latest versions so that you can use them together. Building on the bestselling formats of the first two editions, this new edition teaches you the fundamentals of HTML5 and CSS3, and then presents ways for using them with JavaScript, MySQL, and Ajax to create websites that work.

• Covers using JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Ajax in the context of programming dynamic web pages with CSS3 and HTML5
• Includes self-contained minibooks that review HTML, CSS, design and layout, client-side JavaScript, Ajax and server-side, and putting it all together
• Examines new web development advancements including new technologies and changes to the standards
• Features a website that contains supporting materials including code and several valuable programs that are useful for web development

HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition serves as the perfect reference for both web development beginners and seasoned professionals looking to learn more about how to get the most out of the powerful combination of HTML5 and CSS3.

Table of Contents

Part I: Creating the HTML Foundation
Chapter 1: Sound HTML Foundations
Chapter 2: It’s All About Validation
Chapter 3: Choosing Your Tools
Chapter 4: Managing Information with Lists and Tables
Chapter 5: Making Connections with Links
Chapter 6: Adding Images, Sound, and Video
Chapter 7: Creating Forms

Part II: Styling with CSS
Chapter 1: Coloring Your World
Chapter 2: Styling Text
Chapter 3: Selectors: Coding with Class and Style
Chapter 4: Borders and Backgrounds
Chapter 5: Levels of CSS
Chapter 6: CSS Special Effects

Part III: Building Layouts with CSS
Chapter 1: Fun with the Fabulous Float
Chapter 2: Building Floating Page Layouts
Chapter 3: Styling Lists and Menus
Chapter 4: Using Alternative Positioning

Part IV: Client-Side Programming with JavaScript
Chapter 1: Getting Started with JavaScript
Chapter 2: Talking to the Page
Chapter 3: Decisions and Debugging
Chapter 4: Functions, Arrays, and Objects
Chapter 5: Getting Valid Input
Chapter 6: Drawing on the Canvas
Chapter 7: Animation with the Canvas

Part V: Server-Side Programming with PHP
Chapter 1: Getting Started on the Server
Chapter 2: PHP and HTML Forms
Chapter 3: Using Control Structures
Chapter 4: Working with Arrays
Chapter 5: Using Functions and Session Variables
Chapter 6: Working with Files and Directories
Chapter 7: Exceptions and Objects

Part VI: Managing Data with MySQL
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Data
Chapter 2: Managing Data with MySQL
Chapter 3: Normalizing Your Data
Chapter 4: Putting Data Together with Joins
Chapter 5: Connecting PHP to a MySQL Database

Part VII: Integrating the Client and Server with AJAX
Chapter 1: AJAX Essentials
Chapter 2: Improving JavaScript and AJAX with jQuery
Chapter 3: Animating jQuery
Chapter 4: Using the jQuery User Interface Toolkit
Chapter 5: Improving Usability with jQuery
Chapter 6: Working with AJAX Data
Chapter 7: Going Mobile

Part VIII: Moving from Pages to Sites
Chapter 1: Managing Your Servers
Chapter 2: Planning Your Sites
Chapter 3: Introducing Content Management Systems
Chapter 4: Editing Graphics
Chapter 5: Taking Control of Content