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, its 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

Introduction 1 Part I: Creating the HTML Foundation 7 Chapter 1: Sound HTML Foundations 9 Chapter 2: It’s All About Validation 19 Chapter 3: Choosing Your Tools 33 Chapter 4: Managing Information with Lists and Tables 51 Chapter 5: Making Connections with Links 67 Chapter 6: Adding Images, Sound, and Video 77 Chapter 7: Creating Forms 105 Part II: Styling with CSS 129 Chapter 1: Coloring Your World 131 Chapter 2: Styling Text 149 Chapter 3: Selectors: Coding with Class and Style 175 Chapter 4: Borders and Backgrounds 197 Chapter 5: Levels of CSS 225 Chapter 6: CSS Special Effects 245 Part III: Building Layouts with CSS 263 Chapter 1: Fun with the Fabulous Float 265 Chapter 2: Building Floating Page Layouts 285 Chapter 3: Styling Lists and Menus 309 Chapter 4: Using Alternative Positioning 327 Part IV: Client–Side Programming with JavaScript 353 Chapter 1: Getting Started with JavaScript 355 Chapter 2: Talking to the Page 375 Chapter 3: Decisions and Debugging 399 Chapter 4: Functions, Arrays, and Objects 429 Chapter 5: Getting Valid Input 459 Chapter 6: Drawing on the Canvas 483 Chapter 7: Animation with the Canvas 511 Part V: Server–Side Programming with PHP 527 Chapter 1: Getting Started on the Server 529 Chapter 2: PHP and HTML Forms 549 Chapter 3: Using Control Structures 569 Chapter 4: Working with Arrays 587 Chapter 5: Using Functions and Session Variables 605 Chapter 6: Working with Files and Directories 617 Chapter 7: Exceptions and Objects 639 Part VI: Managing Data with MySQL 653 Chapter 1: Getting Started with Data 655 Chapter 2: Managing Data with MySQL 679 Chapter 3: Normalizing Your Data 705 Chapter 4: Putting Data Together with Joins 719 Chapter 5: Connecting PHP to a MySQL Database 741 Part VII: Integrating the Client and Server with AJAX 759 Chapter 1: AJAX Essentials 761 Chapter 2: Improving JavaScript and AJAX with jQuery 775 Chapter 3: Animating jQuery 795 Chapter 4: Using the jQuery User Interface Toolkit 819 Chapter 5: Improving Usability with jQuery 841 Chapter 6: Working with AJAX Data 859 Chapter 7: Going Mobile 883 Part VIII: Moving from Pages to Sites 909 Chapter 1: Managing Your Servers 911 Chapter 2: Planning Your Sites 933 Chapter 3: Introducing Content Management Systems 953 Chapter 4: Editing Graphics 977 Chapter 5: Taking Control of Content 995 Index 1015

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.