Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript

Book Description

Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript covers the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides you with all the information you’ll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional, best-practice-based results.

There is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it. Planning is vital, so you’ll also learn how to use techniques such as brainstorming, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.

An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential to any web professional, so this book explains how XHTML should be used to structure content so that the markup adheres to current web standards. You’ll learn about the wide range of HTML elements available to you, and you’ll learn how and when to use them through building example web pages.

Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look largely the same. CSS gives you the ability to set your website apart from the rest while maintaining the integrity of your markup. You’ll learn how CSS works and how to apply styles to your pages, enabling you to realize your design ideas in the browser.

JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and introduces the concepts of programming using it. You’ll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax and in turn where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture.

While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability or disability, and the book explains how best to do these tasks. Then, it discusses the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to work for all its users throughout its life-cycle.

The book concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide to the different options available and explaining differences between available products. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals, Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, this book provides invaluable information applicable to every web project, regardless of size, scope, or budget.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Introducing The Past, Present, And Future Of The Web
Chapter 3. Keeping A Project On Track
Chapter 4. Profiling Professions: Jason Fried
Chapter 5. Planning And High-Level Design
Chapter 6. Profiling Professions: Daniel Burka
Chapter 7. Writing Markup With Html And Xhtml
Chapter 8. Exploring Fundamental Concepts Of Css
Chapter 9. Developing Css In Practice: From Design To Deployment
Chapter 10. Creating Interactivity With Javascript
Chapter 11. Testing, Launching, And Maintaining
Chapter 12. Web 2.0: Using Ajax And Social Software
Chapter 13. Profiling Professions: Chris Messina
Chapter 14. Using Server-Side Technologies
Chapter 15. The Business Of The Web

中文：

书名：使用CSS、XHTML和JavaScript创建基础网站

使用CSS、XHTML和JavaScript创建基础网站它涵盖了建立网站的整个过程。这个过程涉及的不仅仅是技术知识，这本书为您提供了理解Web设计和开发背后的概念所需的所有信息，以及交付专业的、基于最佳实践的结果的最佳方法。

要建立一个成功的网站，除了懂一点超文本标记语言(Html)之外，还有更多的事情要做。这个过程在任何编码发生之前很久就开始了，这本书向你介绍了敏捷开发过程，解释了为什么这种方法对Web项目如此有意义，以及如何最好地实现它。规划是至关重要的，因此您还将学习如何使用集思广益、线框、模型和原型等技术来使您的项目尽可能好地开始，并帮助确保项目在开发过程中顺利进行。

理解正确的语义标记对于任何Web专业人员都是必不可少的，因此本书解释了如何使用XHTML来组织内容，以便标记符合当前的Web标准。您将了解可供您使用的各种HTML元素，并将通过构建示例网页了解如何以及何时使用这些元素。

如果不创造性地使用层叠样式表(Cascading Style Sheet，CSS)，网站看起来将大体相同。Css使您能够在保持标记完整性的同时，将您的网站与其他网站区分开来。您将学习CSS的工作原理以及如何将样式应用于页面，使您能够在浏览器中实现您的设计思想。

可以使用JavaScript使您的网站使用起来更容易、更有趣。这本书提供了关于这项技术的适当用法的信息，并介绍了使用它进行编程的概念。您还将看到作为大肆炒作的技术AJAX的一部分，Java如何工作，进而了解AJAX在更广泛的Web 2.0中的位置。

当一个网站正在建设时，它需要在多个浏览器和平台上进行测试，以确保该网站为所有用户工作，而不是能力或残疾，该书解释了如何最好地完成这些任务。然后，它讨论了启动和维护网站的过程，以便在其整个生命周期中继续为所有用户工作。

该书最后介绍了服务器端技术，作为可用不同选项的指南，并解释了可用产品之间的差异。凭借37Signals的Jason Fry、Digg and Pownce的Daniel Burka和公民机构的Chris Messina等知名专家的见解，这本书提供了适用于每个网络项目的宝贵信息，无论其规模、范围或预算如何。

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
第2章：介绍Web的过去、现在和未来
第三章：让项目走上正轨
Chapter 4. Profiling Professions: Jason Fried
第5章：规划和高层设计
Chapter 6. Profiling Professions: Daniel Burka
第7章：使用HTML和Xhtml编写标记
第8章.探索CSS的基本概念
第9章：在实践中开发CSS：从设计到部署
第10章：创建与Java脚本的交互
Chapter 11. Testing, Launching, And Maintaining
第12章Web 2.0：使用AJAX和社交软件
第13章：职业简介：克里斯·梅西纳
第14章：使用服务器端技术
第15章：网络业务