HTML, XHTML, and CSS ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMMIES® -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Book I Creating the XHTML Foundation -- Chapter 1: Sound HTML Foundations -- Creating a Basic Page -- Understanding the HTML in the Basic Page -- Meeting Your New Friends, the Tags -- Setting Up Your System -- Chapter 2: It's All about Validation -- Somebody Stop the HTML Madness! -- Building an XHTML Document -- Validating Your Page -- Chapter 3: Choosing Your Tools -- What's Wrong with the Big Boys? -- Alternative Web Development Tools -- Picking a Text Editor -- The Web Developer's Browser -- Tricking Out Firefox -- Using a Full-Blown IDE -- Chapter 4: Managing Information with Lists and Tables -- Making a List and Checking It Twice -- Building Tables -- Chapter 5: Making Connections with Links -- Making Your Text Hyper -- Making Lists of Links -- Working with Absolute and Relative References -- Chapter 6: Adding Images -- Adding Images to Your Pages -- Choosing an Image Manipulation Tool -- Choosing an Image Format -- Manipulating Your Images -- Using Images as Links -- Chapter 7: Creating Forms -- You Have Great Form -- Building Text-Style Inputs -- Creating Multiple Selection Elements -- Pressing Your Buttons -- Book II Styling with CSS -- Chapter 1: Coloring Your World -- Now You Have an Element of Style -- Specifying Colors in CSS -- Choosing Your Colors -- Creating Your Own Color Scheme -- Chapter 2: Styling Text -- Setting the Font Family -- The Curse of Web-Based Fonts -- Specifying the Font Size -- Determining Other Font Characteristics -- Chapter 3: Selectors, Class, and Style -- Selecting Particular Segments -- Using Emphasis and Strong Emphasis -- Defining Classes -- Introducing div and span -- Using Pseudo-Classes to Style Links -- Selecting in Context -- Defining Multiple Styles at Once -- Chapter 4: Borders and Backgrounds.

Joining the Border Patrol -- Introducing the Box Model -- Changing the Background Image -- Manipulating Background Images -- Using Images in Lists -- Chapter 5: Levels of CSS -- Managing Levels of Style -- Understanding the Cascading Part of Cascading Style Sheets -- Using Conditional Comments -- Book III Using Positional CSS for Layout -- Chapter 1: Fun with the Fabulous Float -- Avoiding Old-School Layout Pitfalls -- Introducing the Floating Layout Mechanism -- Using Float with Block-Level Elements -- Using Float to Style Forms -- Chapter 2: Building Floating Page Layouts -- Creating a Basic Two-Column Design -- Building a Three-Column Design -- Building a Fixed-Width Layout -- Building a Centered Fixed-Width Layout -- Chapter 3: Styling Lists and Menus -- Revisiting List Styles -- Creating Dynamic Lists -- Building a Basic Menu System -- Chapter 4: Using Alternative Positioning -- Working with Absolute Positioning -- Managing z-index -- Building a Page Layout with Absolute Positioning -- Creating a More Flexible Layout -- Exploring Other Types of Positioning -- Determining Your Layout Scheme -- Book IV Client-Side Programming with JavaScript -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with JavaScript -- Working in JavaScript -- Writing Your First JavaScript Program -- Using Concatenation to Build Better Greetings -- Understanding the String Object -- Understanding Variable Types -- Changing Variables to the Desired Type -- Chapter 2: Making Decisions with Conditions -- Working with Random Numbers -- Using if to Control Flow -- Using the else Clause -- Using switch for More Complex Branches -- Nesting if Statements -- Chapter 3: Loops and Debugging -- Building Counting Loops with for -- Looping for a While -- Introducing Bad Loops -- Debugging Your Code -- Catching Logic Errors -- Using the Aptana Debug Mode -- Chapter 4: Functions and Arrays.

Breaking Code into Functions -- Passing Data into and out of Functions -- Managing Scope -- Building a Basic Array -- Working with Two-Dimension Arrays -- Chapter 5: Talking to the Page -- Understanding the Document Object Model -- Harnessing the DOM through JavaScript -- Managing Button Events -- Managing Text Input and Output -- Writing to the Document -- Working with Other Text Elements -- Chapter 6: Getting Valid Input -- Getting Input from a Drop-Down List -- Managing Multiple Selections -- Check, Please: Reading Check Boxes -- Working with Radio Buttons -- Working with Regular Expressions -- Chapter 7: Animating Your Pages -- Making Things Move -- Reading Input from the Keyboard -- Following the Mouse -- Creating Automatic Motion -- Building Image-Swapping Animation -- Movement and Swapping -- Book V Server-Side Programming with PHP -- Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Server -- Introducing Server-Side Programming -- Installing Your Web Server -- Inspecting phpinfo() -- Chapter 2: Generating HTML with PHP -- Creating Your First PHP Program -- Coding with Quotation Marks -- Working with Variables PHP Style -- Building XHTML Output -- Chapter 3: PHP and XHTML Forms -- Exploring the Relationship between PHP and XHTML -- Sending Data to a PHP Program -- Choosing the Method of Your Madness -- Retrieving Data from Other Form Elements -- Chapter 4: Control Structures -- Introducing if-else Conditionals -- Comparing with switch Structures -- Looping It Up with Loops -- Chapter 5: Working with Arrays -- Using One-Dimensional Arrays -- Introducing Associative Arrays -- Expanding to Multidimensional Arrays -- Using foreach Loops to Simplify Array Management -- Breaking a String into an Array -- Chapter 6: Using Functions and Session Variables -- Creating Your Own Functions -- Managing Persistence with Session Variables.

Chapter 7: Working with Files and Directories -- Text File Manipulation -- Working with File and Directory Functions -- Chapter 8: Connecting to a MySQL Database -- Retrieving Data from a Database -- Improving the Output Format -- Allowing User Interaction -- Book VI Databases with MySQL -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Data -- Examining the Basic Structure of Data -- Introducing MySQL -- Setting Up phpMyAdmin -- Making a Database with phpMyAdmin -- Chapter 2: Managing Data with SQL -- Writing SQL Code by Hand -- Running a Script with phpMyAdmin -- Using AUTO_INCREMENT for Primary Keys -- Selecting Data from Your Tables -- Editing Records -- Exporting Your Data and Structure -- Chapter 3: Normalizing Your Data -- Recognizing Problems with Single-Table Data -- Introducing Entity-Relationship Diagrams -- Introducing Normalization -- Identifying Relationships in Your Data -- Chapter 4: Putting Data Together with Joins -- Calculating Virtual Fields -- Calculating Date Values -- Creating a View -- Using an Inner Join to Combine Tables -- Managing Many-to-Many Joins -- Book VII Into the Future with AJAX -- Chapter 1: AJAX Essentials -- AJAX Spelled Out -- Making a Basic AJAX Connection -- All Together Now - Making the Connection Asynchronous -- Chapter 2: Improving Java Script with jQuery -- Introducing jQuery -- Putting jQuery to Work -- Managing Events through jQuery -- Chapter 3: Animating with jQuery -- jQuery's Special Effects -- Interfacing with the Official UI Plugin -- Interface Elements for jQuery -- Chapter 4: Sending and Receiving Data -- Working with XML -- Introducing JSON -- Book VIII Moving from Web Pages to Web Sites -- Chapter 1: Managing Your Servers -- Understanding Clients and Servers -- Creating Your Own Server with XAMPP -- Choosing a Web Host -- Managing a Remote Site -- Naming Your Site -- Managing Data Remotely.

Chapter 2: Moving from Pages to Sites -- Creating a Multipage Web Site -- Planning a Larger Site -- Understanding the Client -- Understanding the Audience -- Building a Site Plan -- Creating Page Templates -- Fleshing Out the Project -- Chapter 3: Introducing Content Management Systems -- Overview of Content Management Systems -- Previewing Common CMSs -- Installing a Content Management System -- Chapter 4: Taking Control of Content -- Getting Started with CMSMS -- Customizing CMSMS -- Building a "Poor Man's CMS" with Your Own Code -- Creating Your Own Data-Based CMS -- Appendix A: What's on the CD -- System Requirements -- Using the CD -- What You'll Find on the CD -- Troubleshooting -- Index.