Codin' for the Web: A Designer's Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites - Softcover

Wyke-Smith, Charles

 
9780321429193: Codin' for the Web: A Designer's Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0321429192 ISBN 13: 9780321429193
Publisher: New Riders, 2006

Synopsis

EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith. Just as architects need to understand building materials and their properties, Web designers need to understand the code that serves as the foundation of their sites. Wyke-Smith ensures they do by teaching designers that all dynamic Web sites consist of essentially three components: a browser interface, Web server middleware, and a database. The guide covers everything from Web coding concepts and principles to building sites, designing visual interfaces, developing databases, developing middleware, ensuring a good user experience (through good code!), testing and debugging, and more.

  • Create dynamic Web sites that provide real-time responses to user inputs
  • Understand the basic structures of all coding languages, such as variables, functions, conditionals, loops, and objects
  • Use the power of PHP to program the business rules of your site
  • Learn techniques for validating forms to reject erroneous or malicious data
  • Import and export data from other applications via at les
  • Build and query database tables using SQL to manage the data generated by your site’s activity
  • Develop a simple content management system
  • Develop a password-protected members-only area of your Web site
  • Build a template-based Web site with dynamic navigation

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About the Author

Charles Wyke-Smith has been creating Web sites since 1994. Through his consulting company, BBd (www.bbd.com), he provides Web design and user experi-ence services to corporate, nonprofit, and e-commerce companies. An accomplished speaker and instructor, Wyke-Smith has also taught multimedia and interface design and spoken at many industry conferences. He wrote the best-selling Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide.

From the Back Cover

EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith. Just as architects need to understand building materials and their properties, Web designers need to understand the code that serves as the foundation of their sites. Wyke-Smith ensures they do by teaching designers that all dynamic Web sites consist of essentially three components: a browser interface, Web server middleware, and a database. The guide covers everything from Web coding concepts and principles to building sites, designing visual interfaces, developing databases, developing middleware, ensuring a good user experience (through good code!), testing and debugging, and more.

  • Create dynamic Web sites that provide real-time responses to user inputs
  • Understand the basic structures of all coding languages, such as variables, functions, conditionals, loops, and objects
  • Use the power of PHP to program the business rules of your site
  • Learn techniques for validating forms to reject erroneous or malicious data
  • Import and export data from other applications via at les
  • Build and query database tables using SQL to manage the data generated by your site’s activity
  • Develop a simple content management system
  • Develop a password-protected members-only area of your Web site
  • Build a template-based Web site with dynamic navigation

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
New Riders
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0321429192
ISBN 13 
9780321429193
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304