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spine=.72” Internet/Web Page Design ™ 4th Edition Web building demystified! Making Everything Easier! Here’s what you need to know Building a Web Site a Web Building to create a great site Open the book and find: Back by popular demand and fully updated — here’s the • Site planning tips fun, easy, straightforward way to build a cool Web site, even • How to create a basic page in Building a if you’ve never done it before! Learn Web lingo, master HTML Dreamweaver tags and WYSIWYG editors, make your pages look cool with graphics, add a blog, and attract an audience. You’ll even be • Inexpensive ways to get your site online able to get an e-commerce site open for business! • What you need to know about Web Site • Brush up on basics — see how basic HTML works and compare graphics different types of editors • How to put forms on your site • Get that look — arrange your text for easy reading with tables, and process responses frames, and framesets, and keep everything up to date with cascading style sheets • Helpful tips for a successful business site • What’s in a name — choose and register a domain name and select the best host for your site • Ten great places to get advice • Worth a thousand words — learn where to get free graphics and • Some super e-commerce tools how to edit and include them in your pages • Dress it up — explore tricks for adding image-based buttons, audio, and video to your site • Mean business — discover how to set up a site for your online business, connect with search sites, and link your site to others Learn to: • Get paid — obtain a merchant account, register with PayPal, • Plan and design a great-looking Web site and learn to protect yourself from credit card fraud Go to Dummies.com® for videos, step-by-step examples, • Work with HTML, CSS, and navigation how-to articles, or to shop! plans • Collect and create content that gets attention • Take your site online and attract visitors who come back $24.99 US / $29.99 CN / £17.99 UK David A. Crowder is a professor in the School of Languages at the University ISBN 978-0-470-56093-8 of Antioquia in Colombia. He has authored or coauthored more than 25 books, including Google Earth For Dummies and previous editions of Building a Web Site For Dummies. David A. Crowder Crowder Author of Google Earth For Dummies www.it-ebooks.info spine=.72” Get More and Do More at Dummies.com® 2nd Edition Start with FREE Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheets include • Checklists • Charts • Common Instructions • And Other Good Stuff! Mobile Apps To access the Cheat Sheet created specifically for this book, go to www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/buildingawebsite Get Smart at Dummies.com Dummies.com makes your life easier with 1,000s of answers on everything from removing wallpaper to using the latest version of Windows. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926852 ISBN: 978-0-470-56093-8 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.it-ebooks.info 01_560938-ffirs.indd iv 5/14/10 8:44 PM About the Author David A. Crowder has authored or coauthored nearly 30 books on subjects ranging from computers to historical mysteries, including popular bestsellers such as Sherlock Holmes For Dummies, Building a Web Site For Dummies and CliffsNotes Getting on the Internet. He was selling hypertext systems back in the days when you had to explain to people what the word meant. He’s been involved in the online community since its inception and is the recipient of several awards for his work, including NetGuide Magazine’s Gold Site Award. He is the son of a teacher and a college president, and his dedication to spreading knowledge, especially about the computer revolution, goes beyond his writing. He also founded three Internet mailing lists (discussion groups), JavaScript Talk, Java Talk, and Delphi Talk, all of which were sold to Ziff- Davis. One of his most treasured memories is the message he received from an old-timer on one of those lists who said that he had never seen such a free and open exchange of information since the days when computers were built by hobbyists in home workshops. When he isn’t writing, he spends his time with his wife Angela, wandering through villages in the Andes or frolicking in the Caribbean surf. www.it-ebooks.info 01_560938-ffirs.indd v 5/14/10 8:44 PM www.it-ebooks.info 01_560938-ffirs.indd vi 5/14/10 8:44 PM Dedication For Angela. Eres mi sol, nena, eres mi luna. Author’s Acknowledgments Thanks are due to Steven Hayes, Christopher Morris, Barry Childs-Helton, and James Russell, my fi ne editors, who were there for me every step of the way. Sometimes the relationship between writers and editors is smooth as silk, and sometimes it’s tempestuous, but it always results in a better book through the give-and-take of the writing/editing process — and I’m grateful for the critiques and contributions of all the members of the Wiley team.