Website Creation in Plain English

From Bare Bones to Bells And Whistles

  • Book Outline
  • Chapters
    1. Beginning
      1. Prologue
      2. Acknowledgements
      3. Table Of Contents
    2. (X)HTML
      1. Introducing (X)HTML
      2. The Basics of Markup
      3. Your First Webpage
      4. Special Characters
      5. Attributes
      6. Hyperlinks
      7. Empty Elements And Semantics
      8. Comments, HTML, Head and its Children, Body
      9. Inline Elements
      10. Block Elements
      11. Lists
      12. Image Maps
      13. (X)HTML Objects
      14. Tables
      15. More Than (X)HTML
    3. CSS
      1. Introduction To CSS
      2. Syntax Of and Using CSS
      3. CSS Selectors
      4. CSS Value Types
      5. Font And Text
      6. Borders, Margins, And Padding: The CSS Box Model
      7. CSS Backgrounds
      8. CSS For Lists
      9. CSS-Generated Content
      10. Arranging the Page
      11. CSS For Printing
      12. CSS For Audio Media
      13. Importing Stylesheets
    4. Scripting
      1. Dynamic Behavior And Scripting
      2. HTML DOM
      3. JavaScript Variables
      4. Text
      5. Regular Expressions
      6. Numbers and Math
      7. Decisions
      8. Loops
      9. Procedures
      10. JavaScript Objects
      11. Events
      12. JavaScript Styling
      13. (X)HTML Forms
      14. DOM Manipulation.
    5. More On Markup
      1. Transitional, Obsolete, and Proprietary HTML
      2. Frames
      3. Coding Shortcuts And Other Things
      4. XML and HTML5
      5. Server-Side Processing
      6. Tips And Tricks Of Website Design
    6. Appendices
      1. Periodic Table of (X)HTML Elements
      2. The First 256 Characters Of UTF-8
      3. Named CSS Colours
      4. Picking Apart The Doctype
      5. Markup Languages
      6. W3C Document License
      7. Statuses of Relevant W3C Documents
      8. The Main Stylesheet For This Book
      9. Bibliography
      10. Glossary
  • Book Extras
    • Frames Modes
      • Frames Mode (without title frame)
      • Frames Mode (with title frame)
      • Inline Frames Mode
      These were created as examples for the chapter on frames)
    • Colours
      • All Possible Compact Hex Colors
      • RGB, Hexadecimal, and Named Colours
      • Hue-Saturation-Lightness Notation ( This is an XHTML file that uses CSS 3. If you see a green checkmark, your browser will support this page)
      • Colour Scheme Planner
    • Coding
      • Elements And Tags Of Your First Webpage
      • Regular Expression Demonstration
      • Book Coding Examples
  • Validators
    • W3C Markup Validator
    • W3C CSS Validator