JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual

If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level—creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users. With step-by-step tutorials, this completely revised edition gets you started with expanded coverage of the basics and takes you deeper into the world of server-side programming.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get up to speed quickly. Learn how to install PHP and MySQL, and get them running on both your computer and a remote server.
• Gain new techniques. Take advantage of the all-new chapter on integrating PHP with HTML web pages.
• Manage your content. Use the file system to access user data, including images and other binary files.
• Make it dynamic. Create pages that change with each new viewing.
• Build a good database. Use MySQL to store user information and other data.
• Keep your site working. Master the tools for fixing things that go wrong.
• Control operations. Create an administrative interface to oversee your site.

HTML5 is more than a markup language—it's a dozen independent web standards all rolled into one. Until now, all it's been missing is a manual. With this thorough, jargon-free guide, you'll learn how to build web apps that include video tools, dynamic drawings, geolocation, offline web apps, drag-and-drop, and many other features. HTML5 is the future of the Web, and with this book you'll reach it quickly.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Structure web pages in a new way. Learn how HTML5 helps make web design tools and search engines work smarter.
• Add audio and video without plugins. Build playback pages that work in every browser.
• Draw with Canvas. Create shapes, pictures, text, and animation—and make them interactive.
• Go a long way with style. Use CSS3 and HTML5 to jazz up your pages and adapt them for mobile devices.
• Build web apps with rich desktop features. Let users work with your app offline, and process user-selected files in the browser.
• Create location-aware apps. Write geolocation applications directly in the browser.

Web site design has grown up. Unlike the old days, when designers cobbled together chunky HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a prayer to make their sites look good, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) now lets your inner designer come out and play. But CSS isn't just a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling all kinds of presentation--from fonts and colors to page layout. CSS: The Missing Manual clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.

Like their counterparts in print page-layout programs, style sheets allow designers to apply typographic styles, graphic enhancements, and precise layout instructions to elements on a Web page. Unfortunately, due to CSS's complexity and the many challenges of building pages that work in all Web browsers, most Web authors treat CSS as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites. Integrating CSS with a site's underlying HTML is hard work, and often frustratingly complicated. As a result many of the most powerful features of CSS are left untapped. With this book, beginners and Web-building veterans alike can learn how to navigate the ins-and-outs of CSS and take complete control over their Web pages' appearance.

Author David McFarland (the bestselling author of O'Reilly's Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual) combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. You'll learn how to:

• Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS



• Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders



• Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages



• Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows



• Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML



• Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser



• Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables



• Style Web pages for printing

Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn't assume that everyone in the world only surfs the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer; our book provides support for all major Web browsers and is one of the first books to thoroughly document the newly expanded CSS support in IE7, currently in beta release.

Want to learn how to turn humdrum Web sites into destinations that will capture viewers and keep them longer? Pick up CSS: The Missing Manual and learn the real magic of this tool.

Dreamweaver CS6 is the most capable website design and management program yet, but there’s no printed guide to its amazing features. That’s where Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual comes in. You’ll learn to use every facet of this versatile program, through jargon-free explanations and 13 hands-on tutorials.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get A to Z guidance. Go from building simple web pages to creating rich, interactive websites.
• Learn state-of-the-art design. Create dynamic, visually appealing sites using JavaScript and CSS, and see how HTML5 and CSS3 fit in.
• Add instant interactivity. Use Dreamweaver’s unique Spry technology to easily add complex layout options, like drop-down menus.
• Use timesaving features. Take advantage of Dreamweaver’s libraries, templates, and hundreds of extensions.
• Go mobile. Design sites for smartphones, tablets, and desktop PCs, using the same HTML.
• Simplify site management. Check for broken links, streamline site-wide changes, and reorganize your site in a snap.

Your expert guide to building modern applications with Visual Basic 2010

Take control of Visual Basic 2010—for everything from basic Windows® and web development to advanced multithreaded applications. Written by Visual Basic experts, this handbook provides an in-depth reference on language concepts and features, as well as scenario-based guidance for putting Visual Basic to work. It's ideal whether you’re creating new applications with Visual Basic 2010 or upgrading projects built with an earlier version of the language.

Discover how to:

• Use Visual Basic 2010 for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation projects
• Build robust code using object-oriented programming techniques, such as classes and types
• Work with events and delegates—and add your own events to custom classes
• Program arrays, collections, and other data structures in the Microsoft .NET Framework
• Solve problems quickly and easily using My namespace in Visual Basic
• Dive into Microsoft LINQ, including LINQ to XML and LINQ to Entities
• Tackle threading, multitasking, and multiprocessor development and debugging