Building a Web Site For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into eight parts. I organized it that way, with a little help from the folks you see in the Acknowledgments. You did read the Acknowledgments, didn’t you? Don’t tell me that you’re the kind of person who reads the Introduction but doesn’t read the Acknowledgments. Please tell me that you didn’t miss the Dedication, too?

Each part has chapters in it. And each chapter has headings and subheadings. All the sections under these headings and subheadings have text that enlightens the heart and soul. Here, take a look.

Part I: Planning and Designing Your Web Site

Part I spills the secrets of how to plan a successful site from the ground up and shows you how to transform a bunch of Web pages into a coherent Web site.

Part II: Building Your Site

Part II tosses in a quick refresher course in basic HTML and then goes into more depth with WYSIWYG site creation, Cascading Style Sheets, and different ways to add search features to your site.

Part III: Adding Sparkle to Your Site

Part III gives you a ton of ways to make your site work, look, and sound great. It covers the different ways that you add new features to your Web site and shows you where to get great graphics and multimedia.

Part IV: From Blogs to Toons — Good Content Makes Contented Visitors

Part IV is about getting your visitors involved in your site so that they keep coming back for more. It shows how to get feedback from your site visitors with message boards and chat rooms. ...