The Web Book

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


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