Book description
What is this book about?
Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS teaches you
how to write Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. It follows
standards-based principles, but also teaches readers ways around
problems they are likely to face using (X)HTML.
While XHTML is the "current" standard, the book still
covers HTML because many people do not yet understand that XHTML is
the official successor to HTML, and many readers will still stick with
HTML for backward compatibility and simpler/informal Web pages that
don't require XHTML compliance.
The book teaches basic principles of usability and accessibility
along the way, to get users into the mode of developing Web pages that
will be available to as many viewers as possible from the start. The
book also covers the most commonly used programming/scripting language
- JavaScript - and provides readers with a roadmap of other Web
technologies to learn after mastering this book to add more
functionality to their sites.
Jon Duckett published his first Web site in 1996
while studying for a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at Brunel University,
London. Since then he has helped create a wide variety of Web sites
and has co-written more than ten programming-related books on topics
from ASP to XML (via many other letters of the alphabet) covering
diverse aspects of Web programming including design, architecture, and
coding.
After graduation, Jon worked for Wrox Press first in its
Birmingham (UK) offices for three years and then in Sydney, Australia,
for another year. He is now a freelance developer and consultant based
in a leafy suburb of London, working for a range of clients spread
across three continents.
When not stuck in front of a computer
screen, Jon enjoys listening to music and writing.
