HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

1084 Pages·2010·17.69 MB·English

by  Andy Harris

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HTML, XHTML,
& CSS
ALL-IN-ONE
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
2ND EDITION
by Andy Harris
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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 com-
puter programming to support his teaching habit with freelance program-
ming. 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 andy@aharris
books.net. You can visit his main site and fi nd a blog, forum, and links to
other books at http://www.aharrisbooks.net.
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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.
Author’s Acknowledgments
Thank you fi rst 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 I’m in writing mode.
Thank you to Mark Enochs. It’s great to have an editor who gets me, and
who’s willing to get excited about a project. I really enjoy working with you.
Thanks very much to Katie Feltman. It’s fun to see how far a few wacky ideas
have gone. Thanks for continuing to believe in me, and for helping me to
always fi nd an interesting new project.
Thank you to the copy editors: fi rst 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 vigi-
lance. 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 you’ve done to help
make this project a reality.
Thanks to Chris McCulloh for all you did on the fi rst 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. I’d especially like to thank the
creators of Firefox, Firebug, Aptana, HTML Validator, the Web Developer tool-
bar, Ubuntu and the Linux community, Notepad++, PHP, Apache, jQuery, and
the various jQuery plugins. This is an amazing and generous community effort.
I’d fi nally 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. I’ve learned far more from you than the small amount I’ve taught. Thank
you for letting me be a part of your education.
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