HTML: A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition

by Willard, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780071809276
• ISBN10: 0071809279
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-04-03
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

Essential HTML skillsmade easy! Thoroughly updated and revised, HTML: A Beginners Guide, Fifth Editionshows you, step by step, how to create dynamic websites with HTML. The book covers new HTML5 features, including video, audio, and canvas elements. Learn how to structure a page, place images, format text, create links, add color, work with multimedia, and use forms. You'll also go beyond the basics and find out how to work with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), create dynamic web content with JavaScript, upload your site to the web, and code HTML emails. By the end of the book you'll be able to build custom websites using the latest HTML techniques. Chapters include: Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter Ask the Expert--Q & A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Self-Tests--End-of-chapter reviews to test your knowledge Annotated syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Basic Page Structure
3. Basic Page Styling
4. Basic Page Layout
5. Working with Text
6. Working with Links
7. Working with Images
8. Working with Multimedia
9. Creating Links
10. Using Tables
11. Employing Forms
12. Managing the Canvas
13. Beyond Static HTML
14. Publishing Pages
15. HTML for Email
Appendixes:
A: Answers to Self Tests
B. HTML Reference
C. CSS Reference
D. jQuery Reference
E. TroubleshootingE. Troubleshooting