Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML: United States Edition - Softcover

Felke-Morris, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132122707 ISBN 13: 9780132122702

Publisher: Pearson, 2010

Synopsis

Using Hands-On Practice exercises and Web Site Case Studies to motivate readers, Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML includes all the necessary lessons to guide students in developing highly effective Web sites. A well-rounded balance of hard skills (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) and soft skills (Web Design, e-commerce, Web site promotion strategies) presents everything beginning Web developers need to know to build and promote successful Web sites.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, Fourth Edition, includes everything you need to develop highly effective Web sites. In addition to comprehensive coverage of XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Web design best practices, this book presents information on accessibility, ethics, e-commerce, Web site promotion strategies, and JavaScript™. CSS has become a standard for Web design, so this edition introduces CSS early on and integrates the topic throughout the text, including CSS-based page layouts.

 

This book explains important Web development and design concepts and provides step-by-step presentations that show you how to implement them. With Web design focus activities, as well as Hands-On Practices, Hands-On Exercises, Web site Case Studies, and valuable reference material, this book has everything a beginning Web developer needs. This text is appropriate for a one-semester Web development course.

 

Topics include:

• XHTML
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Accessibility standards
• Web site design best practices
• The Web development process
• Multimedia and interactivity
• E-commerce
• Web site promotion
• JavaScript

Additional Web develloper reference material, including an XHTML Reference, a CSS Property Reference, a Comparison of HTML and XHTML, and an overview of the Section 508 Standards, is included in the Web Developer's Handbook Appendixes.

 

Supporting materials, including Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 tutorials, an introduction to FTP, a bonus chapter on XHTML frames, and student starter files for all chapters, are available at www.aw.com/felke. A complimentary access code for this Web site is included with a new copy of this book. Subscriptions may also be purchased online.

 

Further resources are available on the author's Web site at www.webdevfoundations.net. This site provides a useful color chart and an Adobe Flash® tutorial, as well as examples, links, and updates for each chapter.

About the Author

Terry Felke-Morris is¿working¿on¿her¿Ed.D.¿at¿Northcentral¿University and is an associate professor at William Rainey Harper College, where she helped to develop the Web Developer certificate and degree programs. She holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems and various certifications, including Microsoft Certified Professional and Master CIW Designer.

A former information systems analyst and software developer, Terry began prototyoping Web applications as early as 1996. She's been teaching Web Development courses at Harper College since 1999 and led the creation of one of the first community college Web Development Certificate and Associate of Applied Science programs in the State of Illinois. Harper College was also one of the first institutions of higher education in Illinois to offer a certificate focusing on Web accessibility, the Accessible Web Design & Compliance Certificate.

Terry is a member of The Web Standards Project (WasP) Education Task Force Curriculum Project, which is an effort to engage web design and education professionals in collaboration to develop a curriculum framework for web professionals. The Web Development & Design Foundations with XHTML textbook has been designated as a recommended reference book for the curriculum.

An innovative educator and instructional designer, Terry has been honored with three international awards, the Instructional Technology Council's 2008 Outstanding e-Learning Faculty Award for Excellence, the 2008 MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources ― MERLOT Business Classics, and the 2006 Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course (Online Category).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0132122707
• ISBN 13: 9780132122702
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 696