Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies

Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. He has experience as a programmer, consultant, database developer, and website builder. Paul is the author of more than 100 books with four million in combined sales worldwide, including several bestselling titles in Wiley’s For Dummies and Teach Yourself VISUALLY series.

• Introduction 1Book 1: Getting Ready to Code for the Web 7Chapter 1: How Web Coding and Development Work 9Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Web Development Home 23Chapter 3: Finding and Setting Up a Web Host 39Book 2: Coding the Front End, Part 1: HTML and CSS 51Chapter 1: Structuring the Page with HTML 53Chapter 2: Styling the Page with CSS 85Chapter 3: Sizing and Positioning Page Elements 123Chapter 4: Creating the Page Layout 151Book 3: Coding the Front End, Part 2: JavaScript 181Chapter 1: An Overview of JavaScript 183Chapter 2: Understanding Variables 203Chapter 3: Building Expressions 217Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow of JavaScript 247Chapter 5: Harnessing the Power of Functions 273Chapter 6: Playing with the Document Object Model 305Chapter 7: Building Reactive Pages with Events 339Chapter 8: Working with Arrays 349Chapter 9: Manipulating Strings, Dates, and Numbers 379Chapter 10: Storing User Data in the Browser 413Chapter 11: More JavaScript Goodies 423Book 4: Coding the Back End: PHP and MySQL 441Chapter 1: Learning PHP Coding Basics 443Chapter 2: Building and Querying MySQL Databases 473Chapter 3: Using PHP to Access MySQL Data 501Book 5: Debugging Your Code 519Chapter 1: Debugging CSS Code 521Chapter 2: Debugging JavaScript Code 537Chapter 3: Debugging PHP Code 559Book 6: Coding Dynamic and Static Web Pages 567Chapter 1: Fetching Data with PHP, JavaScript, and JSON 569Chapter 2: Building and Processing Web Forms 595Chapter 3: Validating Form Data 629Chapter 4: Coding Static Web Pages 657Book 7: Building Web Apps 677Chapter 1: Planning a Web App 679Chapter 2: Making a Web App Responsive 687Chapter 3: Making a Web App Accessible 725Chapter 4: Securing a Web App 747Index 781