Thoroughly revised and updated with examples rewritten to conform to HTML5, CSS3, and contemporary web development practices, this easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorial helps you quickly master the basics of HTML and CSS before moving on to more advanced topics such as graphics, video, and interactivity with JavaScript and jQuery.

In just one hour a day, you’ll learn the skills you need to design, create, and maintain a professional-looking website.

• No previous experience required. By following each short, one-hour lesson in this book, anyone can learn the basics of web development.


• Learn at your own pace. You can work through each lesson sequentially to make sure you thoroughly understand all the concepts and methodologies, or you can focus on specific lessons to learn the techniques that interest you most.


• Test your knowledge. Each lesson ends with a Workshop section filled with questions, answers, and exercises for further study.

Learn how to...

• Fully implement the HTML5 and CSS3 standards


• Work with text and create links


• Add images and graphics to your page


• Use CSS to style a site and position elements on a page


• Structure a page with HTML5


• Use responsive web design to make your pages look good on different-sized screens


• Use JavaScript to add dynamic elements and interactivity on your pages


• Leverage jQuery to add JavaScript features to your pages


• Design for the mobile web


• Get your site online and let people know it’s there


• Optimize your site for search engines

Contents at a Glance

PART I: Getting Started

1 What Is Web Publishing

2 Getting Your Tools in Order

3 Introducing HTML and CSS

PART II: Creating Web Pages

4 Learning the Basics of HTML

5 Organizing Information with Lists

6 Working with Links

PART III: Doing More with HTML and CSS

7 Formatting Text with HTML and CSS

8 Using CSS to Style a Site

9 Using Images on Your Web Pages

10 Building Tables

11 Using CSS to Position Elements on a Page

12 Designing Forms

13 Structuring a Page with HTML5

14 Integrating Multimedia: Video and Sound

15 Advanced CSS: Page Layout in CSS

16 Using Responsive Web Design

PART IV: Using JavaScript and jQuery

17 Introducing JavaScript

18 Using jQuery

19 Using JavaScript in Your Pages

20 Working with Frames and Linked Windows

PART V: Designing for Everyone

21 Designing for the Mobile Web

22 Designing for User Experience

PART VI: Going Live on the Web

23 How to Publish Your Site

24 Taking Advantage of the Server

25 Search Engines and SEO