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by Anne Boehm 15 chapters, 496 pages, 205 figures ISBN 978-1-890774-57-8  In just the first 6 chapters of this book, you'll learn more about web development than you can from most full books. It's true! In fact, by the end of the crash course in Section 1, you'll be developing web pages the way today's best professionals do. That means you'll be using HTML/XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in tandem: HTML/XHTML to provide and identify the various elements of content on the web page (headings, paragraphs, images, etc.) and CSS to format and lay out the elements. You'll be amazed at the sophisticated pages you'll be producing, including those that require the use of the CSS box model, floating, and positioning. But that's just the start. In Section 2, you'll see how to refin...

by Joel Murach and Ray Harris 24 chapters, 844 pages, 367 illustrations ISBN 978-1-890774-56-1 Anytime you're on the web, you're going to be landing on PHP pages. By most counts, over a million web sites have been written in PHP, including some of today's largest, most recognizable sites. And those sites often use MySQL as the database. That means there's a continuing demand for web developers who know how to use PHP and MySQL at the professional level. With this book, you can become one of them! What you'll learn in this book If you look at the table of contents , you'll see that this book teaches all the skills you need to develop almost any type of database-driven web site with PHP and MySQL. The chapters gradually move from the simple to the complex as they show you how to work with: the PHP language the MySQL database the SQL statements for MySQL the PD...