Overview

Get on the fast track to creating your own Web site Want to create a compelling Web site for a home business, family, or fun? Whether you're a student, aspiring designer, or entrepreneur, you can -- with Dreamweaver(r) and this easy-to-follow guide. Gain solid skills as you go from station to station in a series of clear-cut tutorials that cover site planning, registering a domain, formatting, and more. The last stop? Put your new site online and go live! Start your journey today on The L Line. * Define your goals and create a site plan * Learn the best ways to combine HTML and Cascading Style Sheets * Use layers, create forms, and make the site interactive * Master Web standards and the latest search engine optimization techniques All aboard for valuable online extras Visit The L Line Web site at www.wiley.com/go/thelline for valuable online supplementary materials: * Test bank with challenging review questions * PowerPoint slides with chapter outlines * Images and Web page files from the book * Practice exam answers * A CSS reference guide Along The L Line * Complete tutorial coverage with step-by-step instruction * Ample illustrations and examples * Real-world case studies, applications, and hints for avoiding pitfalls * Practice exams that let you evaluate your progress

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Author:   Sue Jenkins
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   1.130kg
ISBN:  

9780470096284

ISBN 10:   0470096284
Pages:   548
Publication Date:   23 February 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface xvii Chapter 1: Starting with a Plan 1 Chapter 2: Defining Your Audience 33 Chapter 3: Pulling Together the Content 55 Chapter 4: Choosing Development Tools and Techniques 77 Chapter 5: Registering a Domain and Getting a Hosting Plan 103 Chapter 6: Defining the Site's Look and Feel 127 Chapter 7: Mocking Up the Design 149 Chapter 8: Optimizing Graphics 177 Chapter 9: Working with Web Standards (HTML/XHTML/CSS/508) 209 Chapter 10: Using Search Engine Optimization Techniques 237 Chapter 11: Building Basic Pages 261 Chapter 12: Page Formatting with CSS 303 Chapter 13: Creating Navigation Systems 329 Chapter 14: Layers- versus Tables-based Layouts 359 Chapter 15: Using Templates and Server-Side Includes (SSIs) 383 Chapter 16: Creating Forms 405 Chapter 17: Making the Site Interactive 427 Chapter 18: Testing, Testing, Testing 457 Chapter 19: Code Validation and Compliance 481 Chapter 20: Taking the Site to the Web 499 Appendix A: CSS Attributes A-1 Appendix B: Exam Answer Appendix B-1 Index 521

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Sue Jenkins is a Web designer, graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, and writer. For over ten years, she has provided Web and graphic design services to small and medium-sized businesses, consultants, writers, artists, and entrepreneurs through her company, Luckychair (www.luckychair.com). Jenkins designs and manufactures her own line of greeting cards and licenses her illustrations worldwide. Since 2004, she has been teaching courses in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator at the computer software training center, Noble Desktop, in New York City, and writing technical articles for the online e-zine, TechTrax. Sue recently moved with her son and husband, a philosophy professor, to Little Rock, Arkansas, from New York City.

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