Creating Web Sites Bible

890 Pages·2008·47.542 MB·English

by  Crowder, David;Crowder, Phillip

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Creating Web Sites
Bible
Third Edition
Philip Crowder with David A. Crowder
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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Creating Web Sites
Bible
Third Edition
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Creating Web Sites
Bible
Third Edition
Philip Crowder with David A. Crowder
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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Creating Web Sites Bible, Third Edition
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Crowder, Philip.
Creating web sites bible / Philip Crowder with David Crowder. — 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-22363-5 (paper/website)
1. Web site development. 2. Web sites — Design. I. Crowder, David A.
II. Title.
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About the Authors
Philip Crowder of Bristol, Tennessee, is the director of theComputer and InformationManage-
ment (CIM) programat VirginiaIntermontCollege where he teaches futureWeb designers and
programmersthe ins and outs of HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and a varietyof other
Web languages and technologies. He has also done funded research into computer-based human
language translation systems.
David A. Crowderis a professional Web developer, and the authoror coauthor of morethan
20 books on Web design and development.He has been involved in the online communityfor
morethan a decade, and has helped to teach hundredsof thousandsof readers to create their
own cutting-edge Web sites.
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