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    Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
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    Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

    By Matthew MacDonald

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    Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. For anyone who wants to create an engaging web site--for either personal or business purposes--Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence.

    Like every Missing Manual, you can count on Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual to be entertaining and insightful and complete with all the vital information, clear-headed advice, and detailed instructions you need to master the task at hand. Author Matthew MacDonald teaches you the fundamentals of creating, maintaining, and updating an effective, attractive, and visitor-friendly web site--from scratch or from an existing site that's a little too simple or flat for your liking.

    Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual doesn't only cover how to create a well-designed, appealing, smart web site that is thoroughly up to date and brimming with the latest features. It also covers why it's worth the effort by explaining the rationale for creating a site in the first place and discussing what makes a given web site particularly aesthetic, dynamic, and powerful. It further helps you determine your needs and goals and make well informed design and content decisions.

    Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual includes a basic primer on HTML, working with JavaScript, and incorporating services like Paypal's shopping cart, Amazon's associate program, and Google AdSense and AdWords. It delivers advanced tricks for formatting, graphics, audio and video, as well as Flash animation and dynamic content. And you'll learn how to identify and connect with your site's audience through forms, forums, meta tags, and search engines.

    This isn't just another dry, uninspired book on how to create a web site. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual is a witty and intelligent guide for all of you who are ready to make your ideas and vision a web reality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateOct 26, 2005
    ISBN9780596518608
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    Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
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    Matthew MacDonald

    Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with dozens of books to his name. Over the years, he’s written about programming, web design, and nature’s weirdest computing tool—the human brain. These days he’s exploring quirky content for kids, including a free interactive guide for learning to write JavaScript. You can learn more about his new projects and his semi-regular publication, Young Coder, on his website, http://prosetech.com.

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      O'Reilly Publishing provided me access to an electronic copy of this book for review purposes.Matthew writes this book as if the reader has no previous experience with coding and even no experience with really understanding how the web works, i.e. how servers render webpages and understanding how a URL works. So if you have lots of experience with these areas then this book probably isn't for you. If however, you've never designed a webpage before or it's been a long time since you've coded this is the book that you want to pick up. The book is divided into five parts:Welcome to the web--which covers the basics of how the web works, basic HTML, and uploading your webpage to the webBuilding better webpages--covers how to use CSS, add images to the website, and creating pagesConnecting with your audiencesWebsite Frills--learning and using JavaScript for basic tasksAppendixesSo by the end of the book the reader is able to know how a webpage works, design their own basic one (and know some good practices for doing so), and learning a little bit beyond the basics with JavaScript. The book is also accompanied by a website for future updates and an appendixes with online resources for learning more HTML and websites mentioned in the chapters for finding additional resources.Having previous experience designing webpages I started reading and reviewing this book as a chance to find a guide that would be a handy reference or a bit of a refresher course when my mind decided to go to sleep. The good: Each chapter is written in a clear, easy to understand format that covers the basics of getting started. The bad: I did have a few problems with some of the information given and how it was worded. First is that it seems jumpy in some places, he wants you to swim before you can walk. For example, he starts off with saying create your first webpage and see how it looks in the browser before really discussing how everything is set up. I get that he wants to provide an example, but I would have told them to take a look at a simple webpage and pointed out the elements to the page first.He also doesn't really cover some of the basic programs well, such as FTP applications and text editors. With FTP programs he just hopes that you're web provider lets you do it via the browser. For text editors he only highlights three free programs and misses some really popular ones, such as TextWrangler, textpad+++, or NetBeans. He also seemed to indicate that the pay ones were better if you were doing more complicated things, which just isn't quite true. It was just a bit disappointing to me perhaps, because I come with experience with webdesign. That being said for someone that is a complete novice at webdesign the book does cover the basics well so that anyway, even a person that has just started using a computer the week before, could pick up the book and begin building a webpage.Even though it does have a few problems, it's still a good basic book for the beginner or a good refresher for someone that hasn't done webpage design in a while. If you're looking to get into depth with CSS or JavaScript I would recommend one of O'Reilly's other books, such as CSS: The Definitive Guide or Head First JavaScript.