HTML, CSS & JavaScript Web Publishing in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself

Rafe Colburn is an author and web developer with more than 15 years of experience building websites. His other books include Special Edition Using SQL and Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours. You can read his blog at http://rc3.org or find him on Twitter as @rafeco.   Jennifer Kyrnin is an author and web designer who has been working on the Internet since 1995. Her other books include Sams Teach Yourself Bootstrap in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours, and Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours. She can be found at http://htmljenn.com/or on Twitter as @htmljenn.   Laura Lemay is one of the world’s most popular authors on web development topics. She is the original author of Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML, Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, and Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.

Introduction 1

PART I: Getting Started

Lesson 1: What Is Web Publishing?

Thinking Like a Web Publisher

    The Web Is a Hypertext Information System

    The Web Is Cross-Platform

    The Web Is Distributed

    The Web Is Dynamic

    The Web Is Interactive

Web Browsers

    What the Browser Does

    An Overview of Some Popular Browsers

Web Servers

Uniform Resource Locators

Defining Web Publishing Broadly

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 2: Getting Your Tools in Order

Anatomy of a Website

Setting Up Your Computer for Web Publishing

    Text Editors

    A Web Browser

Using the Google Chrome Developer Tools

What Do You Want to Do on the Web?

Wireframing Your Website

    What’s Wireframing, and Why Do I Need It?

    Hints for Wireframing

Web Hosting

    Using a Content-Management Application

    Setting Up Your Own Web Hosting

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 3: Introducing HTML and CSS

What HTML Is (And What It Isn’t)

    HTML Describes the Structure of a Page

    HTML Does Not Describe Page Layout

    Why It Works This Way

    How Markup Works

What HTML Files Look Like

    Text Formatting and HTML

HTML Attributes

Using the style Attribute

    Including Styles in Tags

A Short History of HTML Standards

    XHTML

The Current and Evolving Standard: HTML5

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

PART II: Creating Web Pages

Lesson 4: Learning the Basics of HTML

Structuring Your HTML

    The

Tag     The

Tag     The

Tag The Title

Headings

Paragraphs

Comments

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 5: Organizing Information with Lists

Lists: An Overview

Numbered Lists

    Customizing Ordered Lists

Unordered Lists

    Customizing Unordered Lists

Definition Lists

Nesting Lists

Other Uses for Lists

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 6: Working with Links

Creating Links

    The Link Tag:

Linking Local Pages Using Relative and Absolute Pathnames

    Absolute Pathnames

    Should You Use Relative or Absolute Pathnames?

Links to Other Documents on the Web

Linking to Specific Places Within Documents

    Creating Links and Anchors

    The name Attribute of the Tag

    Linking to Elements in the Same Document

Anatomy of a URL

    Parts of URLs

    Special Characters in URLs

    The rel Attribute

Kinds of URLs

    HTTP

    Anonymous FTP

    Non-Anonymous FTP

    Mailto

    File

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

PART III: Doing More with HTML and CSS

Lesson 7: Formatting Text with HTML and CSS

Character-Level Elements

    Semantic HTML Tags

    Changes to Physical Style Tags in HTML5

Character Formatting Using CSS

    The Text Decoration Property

    Font Properties

Preformatted Text

Horizontal Rules (or Thematic Breaks)

    Attributes of the

Tag Line Break

Addresses

Quotations

Special Characters

    Character Encoding

    Character Entities for Special Characters

    Character Entities for Reserved Characters

Fonts and Font Sizes

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 8: Using CSS to Style a Site

Including Style Sheets in a Page

    Creating Page-Level Styles

    Creating Sitewide Style Sheets

Selectors

    Contextual Selectors

    Classes and IDs

    What Cascading Means

Units of Measure

    Specifying Colors

Editing Styles with Developer Tools

Using Color

Links

The Box Model

    Borders

    Margins and Padding

    Controlling Size and Element Display

    Float

More Selectors

    Pseudo-Classes

    Attribute Selectors

The

Tag Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 9: Using Images on Your Web Pages

Images on the Web

Image Formats

    GIF

    JPEG

    PNG

    SVG

Inline Images in HTML: The Tag

    Adding Alternative Text to Images

Images and Text

    Text and Image Alignment

    Wrapping Text Next to Images

    Adjusting the Space Around Images

Images and Links

Other Neat Tricks with Images

    Image Dimensions and Scaling

Image Backgrounds

Using Images as Bullets

What Is an Imagemap?

    Getting an Image

    Determining Your Coordinates

    The and Tags

    The usemap Attribute

Image Etiquette

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 10: Building Tables

Creating Tables

Table Parts

    The Element

    Summarizing the Table

    Rows and Cells

    Empty Cells

    Captions

Sizing Tables, Borders, and Cells

    Setting Table Widths

    Changing Table Borders

    Cell Padding

    Cell Spacing

    Column Widths

Table and Cell Color

Aligning Your Table Content

    Table Alignment

    Cell and Caption Alignment

Spanning Multiple Rows or Columns

More Advanced Table Enhancements

    Grouping and Aligning Columns

    Grouping and Aligning Rows

How Tables Are Used

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 11: Using CSS to Position Elements on the Page

Positioning Schemes

    Relative Positioning

Absolute Positioning

    Positioning Properties

    Positioning Properties and Height and Width

    Nesting Absolutely Positioned Elements

    Dynamic Overlays

Fixed Positioning

Controlling Stacking

Creating Drop-Down Menus

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 12: Designing Forms

Understanding Form and Function

Using the

Tag Using the Tag

Creating Form Controls with the Tag

    Creating Text Controls

    Adding Options to Text Fields with datalist

    Using the New HTML5 Controls

    Creating Password Controls

    Creating Submit Buttons

    Creating Reset Buttons

    Creating Check Box Controls

    Creating Radio Buttons

    Using Images as Submit Buttons

    Creating Generic Buttons

    Hidden Form Fields

    The File Upload Control

Using Other Form Controls

    Using the button Element

    Creating Large Text-Entry Fields with textarea

    Creating Menus with select and option

Grouping Controls with fieldset and legend

    Changing the Default Form Navigation

    Using Access Keys

    Creating disabled and readonly Controls

Displaying Updates with progress and meter

Applying Cascading Style Sheet Properties to Form Elements

Planning Your Forms

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 13: Structuring a Page with HTML5

A Short History of HTML Page Layout

Laying Out a Page in HTML5

HTML5 Structural Tags

    Sections

    Header

    Footer

    Navigation

    Articles

    Asides

The Page Outline

    Elements with Their Own Outlines

Using HTML5 Structural Elements

    Polyfill Scripts

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercise

Lesson 14: Integrating Multimedia: Video and Sound

Embedding Video the Simple Way

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Hosting Videos on External Sites

    Uploading Videos to YouTube

    Customizing the Video Player

    Other Services

Hosting Your Own Video

    Video and Container Formats

    Converting Video to H.264

Embedding Video Using

    The Tag

    Using the Element

Embedding Flash Using the     Alternative Content for the The Tag

Embedding Flash Movies Using SWFObject

Flash Video Players

    JW Player

    Using Flowplayer

    Using the Tag Embedding Audio in Your Pages

    The Tag

    Flash Audio Players

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 15: Advanced CSS: Page Layout in CSS

Laying Out the Page

    The Problems with Layout Tables

    Writing HTML with Structure

    Writing a Layout Style Sheet

    The Floated Columns Layout Technique

The Role of CSS in Web Design

    Style Sheet Organization

    Site-Wide Style Sheets

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

Lesson 16: Using Responsive Web Design

What Is Responsive Web Design?

    History of Responsive Web Design

    Why RWD Is Important

    RWD Is More Than Just Changing the Number of Columns

Mobile Devices Should Come First

    Mobile First

    Affecting the Viewport

Planning a Responsive Website

    Check Your Analytics

    Try the Site with Your Own Phone

    Decide What Content Is Critical

Writing Media Queries

    Media Types

    Media Features

    Breakpoints

    Building a Style Sheet with Media Queries

Understanding the Mechanics of RWD

    Adjusting the Layout

    Making Images and Videos Responsive

    Building Responsive Tables

Responsive Web Design Best Practices

    Give Everyone the Best Experience

    Use the Best Breakpoints for Your Website, Not for Devices

    Be Flexible But Think Small

Summary

Workshop

    Q&A

    Quiz

    Quiz Answers

    Exercises

PART IV: Using JavaScript and jQuery

Lesson 17: Introducing JavaScript

Why Would You Want to Use JavaScript?

    Ease of Use

    Improving Performance

    Integration with the Browser

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