CSS and XHTML

This book is for people who want to get a glimpse into the secrets of web design and start creating web pages in XHTML markup language with support for cascading style sheets, known as CSS. Basic knowledge of HTML is welcome, but not a requirement - it is easy enough to understand. This book is the means to learn the rules of XHTML from the very beginning. Learning CSS styling is also built to be understood by a complete beginner. The reader will gradually learn to write clear and structured XHTML documents, equipped with cascading styles. They will learn how to place them on their FTP server or how to optimize them for the most important web browsers such as Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Just before the page is finished, the reader will be introduced to the world of PHP, giving their site the functionality and control it needs. The descriptions in the book also include the very important search engine optimization, known on the Internet as SEO. The interpretation of the book is supplemented with links to practical examples, placed on the author's weblog.