Beginning Lua Programming or Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML XHTML and CSS

Beginning Lua Programming

Author: Aaron Brown

Lua offers a wide range of features that you can use to support and enhance your applications. With this book as your guide, you’ll gain a thorough understanding of all aspects of programming with this powerful language. The authors present the fundamentals of programming, explain standard Lua functions, and explain how to take advantage of free Lua community resources. Complete code samples are integrated throughout the chapters to clearly demonstrate how to apply the information so that you can quickly write your own programs.

See also: Raving Fans or Shift

Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS

Author: Dave Taylor

• Walks readers through the process of creating a basic Web site from scratch using HMTL, the basis for billions of Web pages, and then jazzing it up with advanced techniques from the author's award-winning sites

• This updated edition features new material that shows readers how to attract visitors to a site and keep them there, including new JavaScript examples and coverage of cascading style sheets and XHTML, technologies that make building successful Web sites even easier

• Also features exciting new tips and tricks for beginning and advanced users, as well as more expanded examples and samples for users to incorporate in their own sites

• The book moves from basic design and deployment to advanced page layout strategies, showing how to spice up new or existing sites with sound, video, and animation

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Building a wicked cool web page	1
Ch. 1	So what's all this web jazz?	3
Ch. 2	Building your first web page : HTML basic	21
Ch. 3	Presenting text attractively	43
Ch. 4	Moving into the 21st century with cascading style sheets	57
Ch. 5	Lists and special characters	81
Ch. 6	Putting the web in world wide web : adding pointers and links	103
Ch. 7	From dull to cool by adding graphics	121
Pt. II	Rockin' page design strategies	157
Ch. 8	Tables and frames	159
Ch. 9	Forms, user input, and the common gateway interface	195
Ch. 10	Advanced form design	219
Ch. 11	Activating your pages with JavaScript	235
Ch. 12	Advanced cascading style sheets	261
Ch. 13	Site development with weblogs	293
Pt. III	Expanding your page into a web site	307
Ch. 14	Web sites versus web pages	309
Ch. 15	Thinking about your visitors and your site's usability	323
Ch. 16	Validating your pages and style sheets	335
Ch. 17	Building traffic and being found	351
	App. A: Step-by-step web site planning guide	373
	App. B: Finding a home for your web site	379
	Index	385