HTML5 and CSS3 All-In-One for Dummies

- Creating the HTML Foundation - Styling with CSS - Building Layouts with CSS - Client-Side Programming with JavaScript® - Server-Side Programming with PHP - Managing Data with MySQL® - Integrating the Client and Server with AJAX - Moving from Pages to Sites
Create a great-looking website with your own content, using free tools
The Internet is not only cool and increasingly essential to our way of life, it's also open to everyone! With this book and the free software tools on the companion website, you have everything you need to create great-looking, interactive web pages that take advantage of technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, and AJAX. What are you waiting for? - The web untangled - learn to build basic HTML web pages, manage information, work with fonts, and add images, sound, and video - Go for style - use CSS to style text, define borders and backgrounds, work with animations, and build floating page layouts - Be a data diva - discover how databases are created; then set up and manage a reliable one with MySQL - Clean up with AJAX - build AJAX connections and use jQuery to enhance the user interface and improve usability - Turn pages into sites - plan a site, work with content management systems, edit graphics, and more
Open the book and find: - The basic structure of web pages - Tips on tools - Ways to manage information - Web standards and how to use them - What to do with selectors, classes, and styles - Basic and alternative layout strategies - How to set up and manage a database - Help clarifying what you want your website to do

Andy Harris taught himself programming because it was fun. Today he teaches computer science, game development, and web programming at the university level; is a technology consultant for the state of Indiana; has helped people with disabilities to form their own web development companies; and works with families who wish to teach computing at home.