- Author: Robert Schifreen
- Format: PDF download (click the blue download button)
- Price: Free for personal use
The Web Book is a complete 330-page book that tells you how to create a Web site from scratch. It covers everything from registering a domain name and renting some hosting space, to creating your first HTML page, to building full online database applications with PHP and MySQL. You can download The Web Book as a PDF file completely free of charge for personal use.
Contents include:
- About The Web Book
- Our Choice of Web Host
- Licensing The Web Book
- A Custom Edition For Your Company
- Who’s Written This Book? And Why?
- Why We’re Here
- From Word Processor to Web Site
- How long should all this take?
- What Is a Web Site Anyway?
- How the Web Works
- Domain Names
- The Simple Option
- The Flexible Option
- About Web Content
- Do you need a development server?
- Getting Everything Together
- Our Domain Name and Hosting
- It’s Not Rude to Point
- Our HTML Editor and FTP Client
- Amaya
- Make A Web Work Folder
- Filezilla
- Creating Your First Web Page
- Now step away from the computer!
- Keep On Reading
- WWW – What, Why, Who?
- Importing Existing Content
- Writing For The Web
- Fonts and Colours
- Hyperlinks
- Linking to Other Sites
- Mailto: Links
- Understanding The Basics of HTML
- Meta tags
- HTML and Privacy
- Validating your HTML
- A Bit More about Accessibility
- Cascading Style Sheets
- About DOCTYPEs
- Getting Started with CSS
- A Word About Fonts
- Classes
- Making Styles Work For You
- HTML Tags Names
- A Better CSS Editor
- ID-based Styles
- Extreme CSS
- Page Layouts and Div Tags
- The CSS Box Model
- Pictures On Pages
- About Image Sizes
- Pictures As Links
- Finding Images to Use on Your Site
- A Browser Icon for your Site
- The Short Cut to Great Web Pages
- Using an Open Source Design
- Tweaking the Text
- Changing the Pictures
- Changing the CSS Styles
- Which Style Is This?
- Adding Pages and Navigation
- Uploading the Finished Files
- Rules, Tables and Image Maps
- Rules
- Tables
- Image Maps
- Password-Protecting your Web Pages
- The .htaccess File
- The .htpasswd File
- Protecting Multiple Folders
- CMSes and Other Software
- CMSes and Templates
- Automatic Installers
- Try Before You Install
- A Word about Patching
- Setting Up A Database
- General Installation Procedures
- Uninstalling
- Joomla
- Uploading the Files
- Configuring Joomla
- Your New Joomla Site
- WordPress
- Downloading the Software
- Make a Database
- Configure WordPress
- Upload The Software
- Final Configuration
- phpBB
- File Permissions
- Plogger
- Getting Started
- The Installation Process
- Uploading Your Pictures
- Avoiding Data Overload
- Installing the PSPad Editor
- Javascript
- Choose Your Side
- Javascript and Semicolons
- Email Address Obfuscation
- Why Upload?
- Security and Cookies
- Morning All!
- Getting the Screen Size
- Javascript Toolkits and Frameworks
- Finding Out More
- MySQL and Web Databases
- Databases, Tables, Fields, Rows and Columns
- Normalization
- Referential Integrity
- Creating A Database
- Using phpMyAdmin
- Creating The Customers Table
- Inserting Some Data
- Querying the Customers Table
- Introducing PHP
- Don’t Panic
- Your First PHP Program
- Some More PHP
- Random Numbers
- Sending Email with PHP
- Passing Information to PHP
- Don’t Forget to Sanitize
- Loop the Loop
- Arrays
- User-Defined Functions
- HTML Forms
- Creating a Form with Amaya
- Naming the Form Objects
- Handling Form Data in PHP
- Testing The Form
- Other Types of Form Data
- Checkbox Arrays
- Feedback Forms
- Hidden Fields
- Accessing MySQL Databases with PHP
- Counting Rows
- Reading Data
- Searching A Table
- About SQL Injection Attacks
- Adding Data to a Table
- Editing a Data Record
- Deleting Data
- Putting it All Together
- Debugging and Global Variables
- Syntax Errors
- Coding Errors
- The $_SERVER Variables
- The Structure of a PHP Application
- Web Servers and the Real World
- Putting the App Together
- Saving State
- How to Back Up your Web Site
- Don’t Forget the Database
- Restoring Lost Information
- Finance and Marketing Issues
- Promoting Your Site
- Making Money
- Accepting Online Payments
- Managing your Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation
- SEO Tips
- Keeping the Crawlers Away
- If at First you Don’t Succeed, Pay
- The End. So, What Now
- Appendix A – Building a Test Server
- Our Goal
- First Install the OS
- Some Useful Commands
- Get Updated
- Test Your Web Server
- Install the Telnet Server
- An ftp server
- Webmin
- Webalizer
- PHP and MySQL
