Creating Web Pages All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies?, 3rd Edition

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Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 2007-07-01
Publisher(s): For Dummies
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Summary

Whether you're looking to show off your digital photos or launch your own blog, Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3 rd Edition delivers all the know-how you need to create Web pages for any need. It demystifies technical topics like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, gives you the lowdown on adding sound and video to a page, and shows you how to put the latest versions of Dreamweaver and Flash to work.These nine minibooks show you the easy way to create great-looking pages with all the bells and whistles. They're completely revised and updated to cover new page design tools and trends. Three all-new minibooks show you how to use Microsoft's new Expressions Web tool to build simple but dazzling pages at online services such as Google Pages, MySpace, and eBay. You'll also learn how to tweak a site's look and feel with Cascading Style Sheets. Discover how to: Create user-friendly page designs Build a blog or photo page Fine-tune your firewall Fine-tune pages with HTML or CSS Spice up your pages with video and animation Use templates to save time and frustration Reduce exposure by controlling user tasks Create interactive features such as clickable images Generate sophisticated graphic effects and movies with FlashDiscoverSo what are you waiting for? Get Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3 rd Edition and start smartening up your Web pages now!

Author Biography

Richard Wagner is an experienced Web designer, the inventor of the NetObjects ScriptBuilder Web tool, and the former vice president of product development for NetObjects. A versatile writer with a wide range of interests, he is also the author of XSLT For Dummies, C.S. Lewis & Narnia For Dummies (both published by Wiley), and many others. His online home is at Digitalwalk.net.

Richard Mansfield’s recent titles include CSS Web Design For Dummies (Wiley), Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), Visual Basic .NET Power Tools, with Evangelos Petroutsos (Sybex), and The Savvy Guide to Digital Music (SAMS). From 1981 through 1987, he was the editor of COMPUTE! magazine. Richard has written hundreds of magazine articles and two columns. He began writing books full time in 1991 and has written a total of 40 books. Of those, four became bestsellers: Machine Language for Beginners and The Second Book of Machine Language (both from COMPUTE! Books), The Visual Guide to Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Power Toolkit, with Evangelos Petroutsos (both from Ventana). Overall, his books have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 12 languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Web & Page Design
Getting Started with Your Web Site
Best Practices in Web Design
Organizing and Navigating Your Web Site
Online Services
Creating Your Own Space on MySpace
Creating a Basic Web Site with Google Page Creator
Blogging It: Creating Your Own Blog
Getting Started on eBay
Microsoft Expression Web
Getting to Know Microsoft Expression Web
Express Yourself: Creating Your First Site with Expression Web
Working with Text, Graphics, and Links
Laying Out Your Page with Expression Web
"Been There, Formatted That" with Dynamic Web Templates
Dreamweaver
Getting to Know Dreamweaver
Nuts and Bolts: Creating Your First Dreamweaver Web Site
Formatting and Layout Basics
Enhanced Page Elements: Flash Controls and Spry Widgets
Forms Follow Function
Working with CSS
When DWT Calls: Using Templates for a Consistent Look
Think Outside the Page: Managing Your Web Site
Cascading Style Sheets
Styling Your Web Pages with CSS
Selectively Speaking
Working with Selectors
Formatting Text
The Gang of Four: Formatting Box Properties
Positioning with CSS
HTML/XHTML
Exploring HTML and XHTML Documents
Working with Text and Links
Presenting Information with Lists and Tables
Adding Images
Divvying Up the Page with DIVs
Creating Forms
Graphics & Multimedia
Understanding Web Graphics
Optimizing Your Graphics
Hotspots and Image Maps
Image Rollovers
Scripting
Understanding How Scripting Works
Programming in JavaScript
Understanding the Document Object Model
Adding Event Handlers to Your Web Page
Useful Things to Know When Scripting
Flash
Getting to Know Adobe Flash
Working with the Stage and Layers
Working with Symbols
Making Movies
Publishing Your Movie
Index.
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