Creating Web Sites Bible

• Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards for creating cutting-edge Web sites for businesses or personal use, this book is one-stop shopping for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, tables, forms, Flash, and more
• Brand-new chapters cover Ajax, Adobe CS3 tools, RSS, and blogging tools
• Hands-on guidance and expert advice dive into such topics as creating and editing images and graphics, adding multimedia elements (e.g., Flash animations, audio, and video), creating stores for Yahoo! and Amazon.com, designing auction pages for eBay, and building blogs

This guide introduces the basic HTML tags for creating web pages, uses tables to structure pages and frames to organize sites, and explains how to make pages dynamic with JavaScript and animate pages with Flash. The book is intended for beginners, but it may overwhelm the average hobbyist who can get a web site up much more quickly with Dreamweaver or GoLive. The second edition no longer includes a CD- ROM and covers HTML 4.01 and Flash MX 2004. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Philip Crowder of Bristol, Tennessee, is the director of the Computer and Information Management (CIM) program at Virginia Intermont College where he teaches future Web designers and programmers the ins and outs of HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and a variety of other Web languages and technologies. He has also done funded research into computer-based human language translation systems.

David A. Crowder is a professional Web developer, and the author or coauthor of more than 20 books on Web design and development. He has been involved in the online community for more than a decade, and has helped to teach hundreds of thousands of readers to create their own cutting-edge Web sites.