In just a short time, you can learn how to use HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3), and jаvascript together to design, create, and maintain world-class websites.
Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials from the ground up.
Clear instructions and practical, hands-on examples show you how to use HTML to create the framework of your website, design your site's layout and typography with CSS, and then add interactivity with jаvascript and jQuery.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common web development tasks

Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn

Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills

Learn how to...

Build your own web page and get it online in an instant

Format text for maximum clarity and readability

Create links to other pages and to other sites

Add graphics, color, and visual pizzazz to your web pages

Work with transparent images and background graphics

Design your site's layout and typography using CSS

Get user input with web-based forms

Use jаvascript to build dynamic, interactive web pages

Add AJAX effects to your web pages

Leverage jаvascript libraries such as jQuery

Make your site easy to maintain and update as it grows

Contents at a Glance
Part I Getting Started on the Web 1 Understanding How the Web Works 2 Structuring an HTML Document 3 Understanding Cascading Style Sheets 4 Understanding jаvascript 5 Validating and Debugging Your Code
Part II Building Blocks of Practical Web Design 6 Working with Fonts, Text Blocks, Lists, and Tables 7 Using External and Internal Links 8 Working with Colors, Images, and Multimedia
Part III Advanced Web Page Design with CSS 9 Working with Margins, Padding, Alignment, and Floating 10 Understanding the CSS Box Model and Positioning 11 Using CSS to Do More with Lists, Text, and Navigation 12 Creating Fixed or Liquid Layouts
Part IV Getting Started with Dynamic Sites 13 Understanding Dynamic Websites and HTML5 Applications 14 Getting Started with jаvascript Programming 15 Working with the Document Object Model (DOM) 16 Using jаvascript Variables, Strings, and Arrays 17 Using jаvascript Functions and Objects 18 Controlling Flow with Conditions and Loops 19 Responding to Events 20 Using Windows
Part V Advanced jаvascript Programming 21 jаvascript Best Practices 22 Using Third-Party jаvascript Libraries and Frameworks 23 A Closer Look at jQuery 24 First Steps Toward Creating Rich Interactions with jQuery UI 25 AJAX: Remote Scripting
Part VI Advanced Website Functionality and Management 26 Working with Web-Based Forms 27 Organizing and Managing a Website