Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS pps

[...]... common questions specific to P2P and Wrox books To read the FAQs, click the FAQ link on any P2P page xxviii Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS 1 Untangling the Web At one time, you had to learn only one language to write Web pages: HTML As the Web has advanced, however, so have the technologies you need to learn in order to create effective and attractive Web pages As the title of this... and allow you to work with basic scripts Along the way I introduce and point you to other technologies you might want to learn in the future The code I will encourage you to write is based on what are known as Web standards; HTML, XHTML, and CSS are all created and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C (http://www.w3 org/), an organization dedicated to creating specifications for the Web. .. learn how to create Web pages, and for people who might have dabbled in writing Web pages (perhaps using some kind of Web page authoring tool) but want to really understand the languages of the Web to create better pages More experienced Web developers can also benefit from this book because it teaches some of the latest technologies, such as XHTML, and encourages you to embrace Web standards that not... your Web site, and links to things called style sheets that change the appearance of fonts, colors, and so on In this chapter, then, you will: ❑ Meet HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript and learn what each does ❑ Learn the difference between tags, elements, and attributes ❑ See how a Web page is structured ❑ Learn why rules that say how a document looks are best kept separate from the content of the Web. .. documents you come across in everyday life, and you know how a Web page gets to you when you type a URL into your browser, it is time to look at the technologies used to write Web pages In this section you meet HTML, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript You will get an idea what each language is used for and start to see the basics of how each works With a basic understanding of each of these technologies you will... will be learning a few different languages: HTML, XHTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript But before you start learning each of these languages individually, it helps if you understand what each of these languages does and how they fit together This is not just a theory and history lesson, however; you will be writing your first Web page sooner than you might think, and along the way you will also learn some... from Your Site Summary Exercises Chapter 16: Taking Your Site Live Meta Tags name and content Attributes Using name with a Value of robots http-equiv and content scheme Testing Your Site The Importance of Directory Structure and Relative URLs Validating HTML, XHTML, and CSS Link Checking Checking Different Screen Resolutions and Color Depths Accessibility Checkers Development Server or Live Server Checking... your Web site available on the Internet and how to get search engines to recognize your site The main technologies covered in this book are HTML, XHTML, and CSS XHTML is not actually a completely different language than HTML; it is more like the latest version of it What would have been HTML 5 was named XHTML, rather like how Microsoft called what would have been Windows 2001 Windows XP XHTML stands... has been created with the intention that it should be a helpful xxv Introduction reference for years to come, so don’t feel you need to learn everything by heart Along the way you see which browsers support each element, and you learn plenty of handy tips, tricks, and techniques for creating professional Web pages Once you have seen how to create and structure a document using HTML and XHTML, you then... headings and paragraphs, creating links between pages, adding color and images, displaying tables, and so on With each task or topic that is introduced you will see an example first to give you an idea of what is possible; then you can look at the elements and attributes used in detail These task-focused chapters are followed by one on deprecated markup, which is markup that is no longer part of XHTML, and . 13:18 ii Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS i P1: IML/FFX P2: IML/FFX QC: IML/FFX T1: IML WY034-FM WY034-Duckett WY034-Duckett-v1.cls December 9, 2004 13:18 Beginning Web Programming with. Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Jon Duckett Wiley Publishing, Inc. iii P1: IML/FFX P2: IML/FFX QC: IML/FFX T1: IML WY034-FM WY034-Duckett WY034-Duckett-v1.cls December 9, 2004 13:18 Beginning Web Programming. WY034-Duckett WY034-Duckett-v1.cls December 9, 2004 13:18 Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Copyright C  2004 by Wiley Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Published simultaneously