Julie C. Meloni - Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage) (8th Edition)

Julie C. Meloni is both the technical director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA, and a scholar working in the field of Digital Humanities. She has written several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, including the bestselling Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache All in One.

Michael Morrison is a writer, developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of computer technology books and interactive web-based courses. In addition to his primary profession as a writer and freelance nerd for hire, Michael is the creative lead at Stalefish Labs, an entertainment company he co-founded with his wife, Masheed.

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In 2009, it is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people have access to the Internet, including 220 million in the U.S. alone. Throw in 338 million Chinese users, 55 million German users, 48 million British users, 38 million Russian users, and 67 million Brazilians, and you can see the meaning of the word world in the term World Wide Web. Many of these Internet users are also creating content for the Webyou can be one of them! Although accurate measurements of the total number of web pages are difficult to come by, Googles most recent data indicates they hit the 1 trillion mark of indexed pages in the middle of 2008.

In the next 24 hours, hundreds of millions of new pages will appear in accessible areas of the Internet. At least as many pages will be placed on private intranets, where they will be viewed by businesspeople connected via their local networks. Every one of those pageslike the more than 1 trillion pages already onlinewill use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

As you complete the 24 one-hour lessons in this book, your web pages will be among those that appear on the Internet. These lessons will also help you develop one of the most valuable skills in the world today: mastery of HTML.

Can you really learn to create top-quality web pages yourself, without any specialized software, in less time than it takes to schedule and wait for an appointment with a highly paid HTML wizard? Can this relatively short, easy-to-read book really enable you to teach yourself state-of-the-art web page publishing?

Yes. In fact, within the first two lessons in this book, someone with no previous HTML experience at all can have a web page ready to place on the web.

How can you learn the language of the Web so fast? By example. This book organizes HTML into simple steps and then shows you exactly how to tackle each step. Every HTML code example is listed directly before a picture of the web page it produces. You see how its done, you read a clear, concise explanation of how it works, and then you immediately do the same thing with your own page. Ten minutes later, youre on to the next step.

After 24 hours of work, youre marveling at your own impressive pages on the Internet.

This book covers more than just HTML because HTML isnt the only thing you need to know to create web content today. The goal of this book is to give you all the skills you need to create a modern, standards-compliant web site in just 24 short, easy lessons. This book covers the following key skills and technologies: