Experienced webmasters too may be surprised to find there is much to be learned from this book, particularly given the author's view that "Web developers the world over have learnt bad habits... they often produce pages that are inflexible, slow to download and difficult to maintain, but like a badly taught driver... many developers find these outdated habits difficult to break... In this book you'll learn the right way to do things."
The right way of doing things is a full, easy-to-understand set of exercises covering how to build a site using HyperText Markup Language (HTML is the basic code or language used to build a website) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS is a language used in conjunction with HTML and helps your site look better).
Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way is a hands-on guide that does exactly what it says on the cover. It's not a detailed design guide but rather focuses on the basic techniques that anybody who's not afraid of a little bit of hard work can acquire without too much distress. Written by Ian Lloyd and published in the USA by Australian company SitePoint, this book is a great example of the international nature of the interweb and you can even download the first four chapters for free or get further advice and support through the SitePoint Forums.
Article comments
1 - Natalie Bennett
This article has been selected for syndication to Advance.net, which is affiliated with newspapers around the United States. Nice work!
2 - Christopher Rose
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3 - Ron
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4 - metalhead
Building site with html and css??!! Give me a break, what kind of site you can make using only html and css, without database?
5 - Jakov
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6 - bliffle
Frankly, there's too much flash and sizzle on websites and it's alienating users. Some of these websites are designed by people who have no interest in human values and are willing dupes of Certain Monopoly Companies who seek to overwhelm the internet and make it their proprietary slave.
RSS arose because people hate to open 12 websites every morning and stumble through 12 totally different interfaces to get their morning shot of news and gossip.
Many users hope that "Web 2.0" is an extended RSS that presents pages in a format of the users choosing, not the format of the vendor, and that any proprietary closed interface media are automatically converted to a standardized open software form.
7 - geetha
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8 - Tom M.
I agree, many websites remind me of the old Las Vegas Strip. All the flashing lights and different things to look at. I thin there is nothing better than a WP blog that provides quality unique and focused content.