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HTML, XHTML, & CSS All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Andy Harris

HTML, XHTML, & CSS All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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About the Author

Andy Harris began his teaching life as a special education teacher. As he was teaching young adults with severe disabilities, he taught himself enough computer programming to support his teaching habit with freelance programming. Those were the exciting days when computers started to have hard drives, and some computers began communicating with each other over an arcane mechanism some were calling the Internet.

All this time Andy was teaching computer science part time. He joined the faculty of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Computer Science department in 1995. He serves as a Senior Lecturer, teaching the introductory courses to freshmen as well as numerous courses on Web development, general programming, and game programming. As manager of the Streaming Media Laboratory, he developed a number of online video-based courses, and worked on a number of international distance education projects including helping to start a computer science program in Tetevo, Macedonia FYR.

Andy is the author of several other computing books including JavaScript For Dummies, Flash Game Programming For Dummies, and Game Programming: the L Line . He invites your comments and questions at .

Dedication

I dedicate this book to Jesus Christ, my personal savior, and to Heather, the joy in my life. I also dedicate this project to Elizabeth, Matthew, Jacob, and Benjamin. I love each of you.

Authors Acknowledgments

Thank you first to Heather. Even though I type all the words, this book is a real partnership, like the rest of our life. Thanks for being my best friend and companion. Thanks also for doing all the work it takes for us to sustain a family when Im in writing mode.

Thank you to Mark Enochs. Its great to have an editor who gets me, and whos willing to get excited about a project. I really enjoy working with you.

Thanks very much to Katie Feltman. Its fun to see how far a few wacky ideas have gone. Thanks for continuing to believe in me, and for helping me to always find an interesting new project.

Thank you to the copy editors: first and foremost, I thank Brian Walls for his all his hard work in making this edition presentable. Thanks also go to Teresa Artman, John Edwards, and Melba Hopper for their help. I appreciate your efforts to make my geeky mush turn into something readable. Thanks for improving my writing.

A special thanks to Jeff Noble for his technical editing. I appreciate your vigilance. You have helped to make this book as technically accurate as possible.

Thank you to the many people at Wiley who contribute to a project like this. The author only gets to meet a few people, but so many more are involved in the process. Thank you very much for all youve done to help make this project a reality.

Thanks to Chris McCulloh for all you did on the first edition, and I thank you for your continued friendship.

A big thank you to the open source community which has created so many incredible tools and made them available to all. Id especially like to thank the creators of Firefox, Firebug, Aptana, HTML Validator, the Web Developer toolbar, Ubuntu and the Linux community, Notepad++, PHP, Apache, jQuery, and the various jQuery plugins. This is an amazing and generous community effort.

Id finally like to thank the IUPUI computer science family for years of support on various projects. Thank you especially to all my students, current and past. Ive learned far more from you than the small amount Ive taught. Thank you for letting me be a part of your education.

Publishers Acknowledgments

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