Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS & JavaScript Web Publishing in One Hour a Day, 7th Edition

Thoroughly revised and updated with examples rewritten to conform to HTML5, CSS3, and contemporary web development practices, this easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorial helps you quickly master the basics of HTML and CSS before moving on to more advanced topics such as graphics, video, and interactivity with JavaScript. In just one hour a day, you’ll learn the skills you need to design, create, and maintain a professional-looking website.

No previous experience required. By following each short, one-hour lesson in this book, anyone can learn the basics of web development.

Learn at your own pace. You can work through each lesson sequentially to make sure you thoroughly understand all the concepts and methodologies, or you can focus on specific lessons to learn the techniques that interest you most.

Test your knowledge. Each lesson ends with a Workshop section filled with questions, answers, and exercises for further study.

Learn on your own time, at your own pace

• Thoroughly updated and revised to cover the latest web publishing technologies and techniques
• Learn how to fully implement the HTML5 and CSS3 standards
• Clear, step-by-step lessons give you hands-on practice in creating web pages with HTML
• Learn the basics of working with text and creating links
• Add images and graphics to your page
• Use CSS to style a site and position elements on a page
• Structure a page with HTML5
• Use responsive web design to make your pages look good on different-sized screens
• Use JavaScript to add dynamic elements and interactivity on your pages
• Learn how jQuery can help you add JavaScript features to your pages
• Design for the mobile web
• Find out how to get your site online and let people know it’s there
• Learn how to optimize your site for search engines

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Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started
Lesson 1. What Is Web Publishing?
Lesson 2. Getting Your Tools in Order
Lesson 3. Introducing HTML and CSS

Part II: Creating Web Pages
Lesson 4. Learning the Basics of HTML
Lesson 5. Organizing Information with Lists
Lesson 6. Working with Links

Part III: Doing More with HTML and CSS
Lesson 7. Formatting Text with HTML and CSS
Lesson 8. Using CSS to Style a Site
Lesson 9. Using Images on Your Web Pages
Lesson 10. Building Tables
Lesson 11. Using CSS to Position Elements on the Page
Lesson 12. Designing Forms
Lesson 13. Structuring a Page with HTML5
Lesson 14. Integrating Multimedia: Video and Sound
Lesson 15. Advanced CSS: Page Layout in CSS
Lesson 16. Using Responsive Web Design

Part IV: Using JavaScript and jQuery
Lesson 17. Introducing JavaScript
Lesson 18. Using jQuery
Lesson 19. Using JavaScript in Your Pages
Lesson 20. Working with Frames and Linked Windows

Part V: Designing for Everyone
Lesson 21. Designing for the Mobile Web
Lesson 22. Designing for User Experience

Part VI: Going Live on the Web
Lesson 23. How to Publish Your Site
Lesson 24. Taking Advantage of the Server
Lesson 25. Search Engines and SEO