Book description
EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of
creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to
help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and
are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web
programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith.
Just as architects need to understand building materials and their
properties, Web designers need to understand the code that serves
as the foundation of their sites. Wyke-Smith ensures they do by
teaching designers that all dynamic Web sites consist of
essentially three components: a browser interface, Web server
middleware, and a database. The guide covers everything from Web
coding concepts and principles to building sites, designing visual
interfaces, developing databases, developing middleware, ensuring a
good user experience (through good code!), testing and debugging,
and more.
Create dynamic Web sites that provide real-time responses to user inputs
Understand the basic structures of all coding languages, such as variables, functions, conditionals, loops, and objects
Use the power of PHP to program the business rules of your site
Learn techniques for validating forms to reject erroneous or malicious data
Import and export data from other applications via at les
Build and query database tables using SQL to manage the data generated by your site’s activity
Develop a simple content management system
Develop a password-protected members-only area of your Web site
Build a template-based Web site with dynamic navigation
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Coding Principles
- Chapter 2. Processing Forms
- Chapter 3. Databases
- Chapter 4. Content Management
- Chapter 5. Cookies and Authentication
- Chapter 6. Building a Web Site with PHP
- Chapter A. Unleashing the Geek Within
- Chapter B. Coding the Interface
- Index
- Media
Product information
- Title: Codin’ for the Web: A Designer’s Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2006
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321429193
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