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Easy Web Development Ebook

Learn how to create a web site using HTML, XHTML and CSS. Gain insight into web site marketing. Gain this knowledge in a week or less.

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The Web Development Ebook teaches you how to develop and code web pages using Hypertext Markup Language, XHTML and Cascading Style sheets. XHTML is the standard language for developing web pages. You don't need to be a programmer or a computer fundi to learn HTML. In fact HTML consists mostly of tags that tell the browser how to render your page. If you understand English, have surfed the Net and know how to use a simple text editor (such as Notepad), you can learn HTML. So think of it as easy HTML. Combine this with style techniques by using CSS and you are able to build effective web sites.

This book is an executable file. It runs on the Windows platform (95 or better) and requires Internet Explorer 4 or better.

The Web Dev Primer offers a fast track to learing HTML tags and syntax and CSS style techniques. We explain a lot of theory and provide practical tutorials which puts theory into practice. We use real-world examples and you will also gain some insight into Internet Marketing issues. Some of the more useful and advanced features covered in theis book inlude:

• Using and applying style sheets
• Page Layout using style sheets
• Uisng hyperlinks
• Working with character entities
• Form development and processing
• Working with images; image optimization
• Creating thumbnail images
• Creating thumbnail images using imgThumb
• Image rolls and slide shows
• Using thumbnails and links to larger images
• Using Image Maps
• Working with colors and backgrounds
• Creating and using tables
• Search Engine implications
• Correct coding for search engine optimization
• XHTML validation

We also offer a condensed version of this book, the The Web Dev Trial Ebook. The HTML/XHTML/CSS Mini E-Book is free.

To enable you to make a more informed decision, we have summarised the contents of our main web development ebook (easy WEB Primer) below.

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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS - HTML EBOOK

SECTION A - HTML

HTML - Introduction

• Basic Tags
• Meta Tags
• Attributes
• Examples and Tutorial

HTML - Document Formatting

• Attributes (Align, Class, Id, Title)
• Header Tags
• Other formatting tags (break, horizontal rule, paragraph , division etc)

HTML- Advanced Formatting

• Comments
• Content Based Tags
• Special Characters
• Character Entities
• Physical Style Tags
• Deprecated tags
• Lists
• Errors
• Examples and Tutorial

HTML - Syle Sheets

• Styles and Typography
• class=redbold>Style Types (Inline, Document, External)
• Style Comments
• Style Properties
  • background,text,font
  • border,margin,padding
  • list,dimension,classification,position
• Keywords and Property Values
• Style Classes
• ID Selector
• Practical Tutorial

HTML- Style Sheet Techniques

• Style Rules
• Linking style sheets
• Style Classes (regular,generic,id,psuedo)
• Colors and backrounds
• Text Properties (letter-spacing,line-height,text-align,text-decortion,vertical-align)
• Box Properties (padding,border,margin)
• Positioning (clear,float,height,width)
• List (list-style)
• Specifying property values (keyword,size,percentage,color,URL)
• Span tag
• Practical Example, Tutorial

HTML - Hyperlinks

• Anchor tag
• URLs
• Relative and Absolute references
• Attributes (class, id,title)
• Link targets (target="_blank")
• Do's and Dont's of links
• Tutorial

HTML - Lists

• Ordered and Unordered lists
• List Items
• List Attributes
• Definition Lists
• List Style Properties
• Practical Tutorial

HTML - Multi-Media

• Horizontal Rule
• HTML Color Values
• Image formats
• Jpeg and gif formats
• Animations
• Faster downloads
• Image guidelines
• >Image Tag
• Attributes
• Creating and using thumbnails
• Image Maps (Hyperlinked areas, client-side image maps)
• Practical Tutorial

HTML - Tables

• The table tags
• Table Header, Row, Data, Caption
• Attributes
• Nested Tables
• Assymetry
• Colors
• Vertical Align
• Images and Links
• Practical Tutorial

HTML -Forms

• Form Generators
• Basic form design
• Form controls
• Submit and Reset
• Input tag
• Text Fields
• TextArea
• Word wrap
• Select tag
• Form Development
• Order Form
• Feedack Form
• Form Attributes
• Forms Processing
• Action and Method attributes
• Email Processing
• Input Types
• CGI
• Template Page
• Confirmation Page
• Post and Get
• Examples and Tutorial

HTML - Frames

• Tags
• Attributes
• Example

HTML - Executable Content

• Inclusion content (Applets, images etc)
• Object tag
• Attributes

SECTION B - XML / XHTML

XML

• Introduction
• XML Format
• XML Rules
• XML Elements
• XML Attributes
• Applying styles to XML documents
• Tutorial

XHTML

• Introduction
• DTD - Document type definition /declaration
• Document structure
• Tag requirements
• Attribute requirements
• Core attributes
• Nesting
• Validation

SECTION C - STYLE TECHNIQUES

• Page Layout
• CSS layout advantages
• Top Nav Bar
• Right Column
• Page Header
• Main Content
• Footer
• CSS Layout example
• Menu Layout

SECTION D - WEBSITE MARKETING AND HOSTING

• URLs'
• Reciprocal Links
• Ad Words
• Selected directories
• Search Engines - Google
• Directories - Yahoo
• Keywords / Phrases
• Content
• Robot Instructions
• Meta Tags
  • Page re-direct meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"
  • Keywords meta name="keywords" content="
  • meta name="description"
  • meta name="keywords"
  • meta name="author"
  • meta name="language"
  • meta name="revisit-after"
  • meta name="owner"
  • meta name="copyright"
  • meta name="contact_addr"
  • meta name="rating"
  • meta name="robots"
  • meta name="distribution"
  • meta name="classification"
  • meta http-equiv
• New e-commerce for smaller businesses
• Search Engines and Spiders
• Importance of certain tags, titles, keywords
• Title Tag
• Header tags
• Meta tags: content, description
• Meta tags: Robots, noindex, nofollow
• Robots.txt file
• Effective hyperlinks
• Hosting Considerations
  • Cost
  • Support
  • Disk Space
  • Bandwidth
  • Email Accounts
  • Cpanel
  • Other products
• Recommended hosting

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This Web Development Ebook is an executable file that will run on Windows platforms. (Windows 95 or better) and Internet Explorer 4 or better. When you download the file, select the directory where you wnat to save it.
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