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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

by Matthew MacDonald
May 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
584 pages
17h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Outline

This book is divided into five parts, each with several chapters:

  • Part One: Welcome to the Web. In this part of the book, you’ll start planning your website (Chapter 1). You’ll learn the basics behind HTML, the language of the Web (Chapter 2); and you’ll put your pages online with a reputable hosting company (Chapter 3). Finally, you’ll look at how you can simplify your life by using web-page editing software (Chapter 4).

  • Part Two: Building Better Web Pages. This section shows you how to add essentials to your pages. First, you’ll learn your way around the CSS standard, which lets you specify fancy colors, fonts, and borders (Chapter 6). Next, you’ll add pictures to your pages (Chapter 7) and create an entire website made of linked pages (Chapter 8). Finally, you’ll master some slick layouts (Chapter 9) and learn how to standardize them throughout your site (Chapter 10).

  • Part Three: Connecting with Your Audience. The third part of the book explains how to get your site noticed by search engines like Google (Chapter 11), and how to reel in web traffic (Chapter 12). You’ll also take a look at blogs (short for web logs) and the free software that helps you create them (Chapter 13). Finally, you’ll learn how to get on the path to web riches by displaying ads or selling your own products (Chapter 14).

  • Part Four: Website Frills. Now that you can create a professional, working website, why not deck it out with fancy features like glowing buttons and pop-out menus? You won’t ...

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