Andy Harris taught himself programming because it was fun. Today he teaches computer science, game development, and web programming at the university level; is a technology consultant for the state of Indiana; has helped people with disabilities to form their own web development companies; and works with families who wish to teach computing at home.

• Introduction 1Part I: Creating the HTML Foundation 7Chapter 1: Sound HTML Foundations 9Chapter 2: It’s All About Validation 19Chapter 3: Choosing Your Tools 33Chapter 4: Managing Information with Lists and Tables 51Chapter 5: Making Connections with Links 67Chapter 6: Adding Images, Sound, and Video 77Chapter 7: Creating Forms 105Part II: Styling with CSS 129Chapter 1: Coloring Your World 131Chapter 2: Styling Text 149Chapter 3: Selectors: Coding with Class and Style 175Chapter 4: Borders and Backgrounds 197Chapter 5: Levels of CSS 225Chapter 6: CSS Special Effects 245Part III: Building Layouts with CSS 263Chapter 1: Fun with the Fabulous Float 265Chapter 2: Building Floating Page Layouts 285Chapter 3: Styling Lists and Menus 309Chapter 4: Using Alternative Positioning 327Part IV: Client-Side Programming with JavaScript 353Chapter 1: Getting Started with JavaScript 355Chapter 2: Talking to the Page 375Chapter 3: Decisions and Debugging 399Chapter 4: Functions, Arrays, and Objects 429Chapter 5: Getting Valid Input 459Chapter 6: Drawing on the Canvas 483Chapter 7: Animation with the Canvas 511 Part V: Server-Side Programming with PHP 527Chapter 1: Getting Started on the Server 529Chapter 2: PHP and HTML Forms 549Chapter 3: Using Control Structures 569Chapter 4: Working with Arrays 587Chapter 5: Using Functions and Session Variables 605Chapter 6: Working with Files and Directories 617Chapter 7: Exceptions and Objects 639Part VI: Managing Data with MySQL 653Chapter 1: Getting Started with Data 655Chapter 2: Managing Data with MySQL 679Chapter 3: Normalizing Your Data 705Chapter 4: Putting Data Together with Joins 719Chapter 5: Connecting PHP to a MySQL Database 741Part VII: Integrating the Client and Server with AJAX 759Chapter 1: AJAX Essentials 761Chapter 2: Improving JavaScript and AJAX with jQuery 775Chapter 3: Animating jQuery 795Chapter 4: Using the jQuery User Interface Toolkit 819Chapter 5: Improving Usability with jQuery 841Chapter 6: Working with AJAX Data 859Chapter 7: Going Mobile 883Part VIII: Moving from Pages to Sites 909Chapter 1: Managing Your Servers 911Chapter 2: Planning Your Sites 933Chapter 3: Introducing Content Management Systems 953Chapter 4: Editing Graphics 977Chapter 5: Taking Control of Content 995Index 1015

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