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Codin' for the Web

by Charles Wyke Smith

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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

Book News Annotation:

Consultant Wyke-Smith helps web designers to better understand and use the server-side code that makes up the foundation of their sites and gives them their functionality. The open-source PHP scripting language and the associated mySQL database are used throughout the volume; JavaScript is not covered. Sample topics include processing forms, creating databases, and implementing the authentication system. Full-color screenshots illustrate the volume.
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Book News Annotation:

Consultant Wyke-Smith helps web designers to better understand and use the server-side code that makes up the foundation of their sites and gives them their functionality. The open-source PHP scripting language and the associated mySQL database are used throughout the volume; JavaScript is not covered. Sample topics include processing forms, creating databases, and implementing the authentication system. Full-color screenshots illustrate the volume. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

Here to help readers create sites that not only work, but work well--and are easy to update and maintain--is a straightforward, visual guide to Web programming basics from bestselling author Wyke-Smith. Just as architects need to understand building materials and their properties, readers need to understand the code that serves as the foundation for their sites.
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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.
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An excellent book for people who know plenty about (X)HTML and CSS, but don't know how to code a site to take advantage of back-end databases.

Written for the non-database expert, it's an excellent guide to the basics (really, a bit more than the basics) of PHP and MySQL -- two terms that anyone who's used blogging software probably knows.

A great step from standard Web sites to database-powered ones.

(Note: My name's Andrew, but for some reason the letters "ANDREW" include invalid characters according to the site, so I have no moniker....)
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780321429193
Subtitle:
A Designer's Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites
Author:
Wyke Smith, Charles
Author:
Wyke-Smith, Charles
Author:
Wyke-Smith, Charles,
Publisher:
New Riders Publishing
Subject:
Programming - General
Subject:
Design
Subject:
Internet - World Wide Web
Subject:
Html (document markup language)
Subject:
Web - General
Copyright:
2006
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
November 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
286
Dimensions:
9.18x7.58x.55 in. 1.33 lbs.
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