Product Description
Think we need an army of learned programmers to build a website? Think again. With zero some-more than an typical PC, some tender ambition, and this book, you’ll learn how to emanate and say a professional-looking, visitor-friendly site. This Missing Manual gives we all a tools, techniques, and consultant recommendation we need.
- Plan your site. Create web pages by training a basis of HTML and HTML5.
- Control page pattern with CSS. Format text, images, links, tables, and other elements.
- Attract visitors. Ensure that people can find your site by renouned hunt engines.
- Build a community. Add forums, uninformed content, and a feedback form to inspire repeat visits.
- Get smart. Use giveaway collection to brand your site’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Create your possess blog. Post your musings with a giveaway blog-hosting service.
- Bring in cash. Host Google ads, sell Amazon’s wares, or pull your possess products.
- Add pizzazz. Include audio, video, interactive menus, and more.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8595 in Books
- Published on: 2011-05-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.30" h x 7.00" w x 9.10" l, 2.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 582 pages
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About a Author
Matthew MacDonald is a developer, author, and teacher in all things Visual Basic and .NET. He's worked with Visual Basic and ASP given their initial versions, and has created over a dozen books on a subject, including The Book of VB .NET (No Starch Press) and Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly). He has also created a series of Missing Manual titles on Excel 2007 and Access 2007 (O’Reilly).
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27 of 27 people found a following examination helpful.
By David Michael Griffin
I'm a newbie. we bought Creating a Website. At about section 8 we satisfied that reading a text, perplexing to follow a examples yet afterwards carrying to examination a resolution html was not adhering in my head. The book, to me, is not terse for a newbie.
So we bought Head First HTML & XHTML with CSS. **AWESOME newbie boodk**
After completing, literally, that whole Head First book, I'm enjoing Creating a Website.
Think of it like HTML & CSS 101 and 102!
If we are a beginner, get a Head First book first.
19 of 19 people found a following examination helpful.
By Gregory Zentkovich
This is a many finish all-in-one primer on website growth we have ever read. we was vacant on a volume of information lonesome in this book, it is roughly overwhelming. But, if we hang it out, a finish outcome will be a consummate substructure on website development, village building and, if we wanted to, use your new found believe and skills to make income on a web. This book is written, like a pretension states, in a manual-like style, churned with step-by-step solutions, elementary examples and minute explanations. And If that wasn't adequate already, in a appendix there is a HTML5 reference, and a garland of website links, grouped by chapters to serve extend your believe in any subject. we found this book easy to examination and know that is one of a categorical reasons given we favourite it so much. we would rarely suggest this book to anyone who wants to start a career in web pattern or growth as it will give them a rock-solid substructure on how things work and fit all together. we would also suggest this book to tiny business owners, or selling managers as it will give them a finish bargain of a whole growth routine so they can cleverly plead their subsequent web plan with impending designers yet their eyes glazing over from miss of knowledge. Finally, we would unequivocally suggest this book to anyone else, who, maybe usually wants to start a blog, or make a webpage, or learn how to use stylesheets or javascript in an already existent website -- this is a book for we given we will accomplish that in usually a section or dual and come out forward with a good anxiety primer to boot.
6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
By Andy Shuping
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Matthew writes this book as if a reader has no prior knowledge with coding and even no knowledge with unequivocally bargain how a web works, i.e. how servers describe webpages and bargain how a URL works. So if we have lots of knowledge with these areas afterwards this book substantially isn't for you. If however, you've never designed a webpage before or it's been a prolonged time given you've coded this is a book that we wish to collect up. The book is divided into 5 parts:
Welcome to a web--which covers a basis of how a web works, elementary HTML, and uploading your webpage to a web
Building improved webpages--covers how to use CSS, supplement images to a website, and formulating pages
Connecting with your audiences
Website Frills--learning and regulating JavaScript for elementary tasks
Appendixes
So by a finish of a book a reader is means to know how a webpage works, pattern their possess elementary one (and know some good practices for doing so), and training a small bit over a basis with JavaScript. The book is also accompanied by a website for destiny updates and an appendixes with online resources for training some-more HTML and websites mentioned in a chapters for anticipating additional resources.
Having prior knowledge conceptualizing webpages we started reading and reviewing this book as a possibility to find a beam that would be a accessible anxiety or a bit of a refresher march when my mind motionless to go to sleep. The good: Each section is created in a clear, easy to know format that covers a basis of removing started. The bad: we did have a few problems with some of a information given and how it was worded. First is that it seems jumpy in some places, he wants we to float before we can walk. For example, he starts off with observant emanate your initial webpage and see how it looks in a browser before unequivocally deliberating how all is set up. we get that he wants to yield an example, yet we would have told them to take a demeanour during a elementary webpage and forked out a elements to a page first.
He also doesn't unequivocally cover some of a elementary programs well, such as FTP applications and content editors. With FTP programs he usually hopes that you're web provider lets we do it around a browser. For content editors he usually highlights 3 giveaway programs and misses some unequivocally renouned ones, such as TextWrangler, textpad+++, or NetBeans. He also seemed to prove that a compensate ones were improved if we were doing some-more difficult things, that usually isn't utterly true. It was usually a bit unsatisfactory to me perhaps, given we come with knowledge with webdesign. That being pronounced for someone that is a finish amateur during webdesign a book does cover a basis good so that anyway, even a chairman that has usually started regulating a mechanism a week before, could collect adult a book and start building a webpage.
Even yet it does have a few problems, it's still a good elementary book for a amateur or a good refresher for someone that hasn't finished webpage pattern in a while. If you're looking to get into abyss with CSS or JavaScript we would suggest one of O'Reilly's other books, such as CSS: The Definitive Guide or Head First JavaScript.
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