Introduction 1 Book 1: Getting Ready to Code for the Web 7 Chapter 1: How Web Coding and Development Work 9 Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Web Development Home 23 Chapter 3: Finding and Setting Up a Web Host 39 Book 2: Coding the Front End, Part 1: HTML and CSS 51 Chapter 1: Structuring the Page with HTML 53 Chapter 2: Styling the Page with CSS 85 Chapter 3: Sizing and Positioning Page Elements 123 Chapter 4: Creating the Page Layout 151 Book 3: Coding the Front End, Part 2: JavaScript 181 Chapter 1: An Overview of JavaScript 183 Chapter 2: Understanding Variables 203 Chapter 3: Building Expressions 217 Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow of JavaScript 247 Chapter 5: Harnessing the Power of Functions 273 Chapter 6: Playing with the Document Object Model 305 Chapter 7: Building Reactive Pages with Events 339 Chapter 8: Working with Arrays 349 Chapter 9: Manipulating Strings, Dates, and Numbers 379 Chapter 10: Storing User Data in the Browser 413 Chapter 11: More JavaScript Goodies 423 Book 4: Coding the Back End: PHP and MySQL 441 Chapter 1: Learning PHP Coding Basics 443 Chapter 2: Building and Querying MySQL Databases 473 Chapter 3: Using PHP to Access MySQL Data 501 Book 5: Debugging Your Code 519 Chapter 1: Debugging CSS Code 521 Chapter 2: Debugging JavaScript Code 537 Chapter 3: Debugging PHP Code 559 Book 6: Coding Dynamic and Static Web Pages 567 Chapter 1: Fetching Data with PHP, JavaScript, and JSON 569 Chapter 2: Building and Processing Web Forms 595 Chapter 3: Validating Form Data 629 Chapter 4: Coding Static Web Pages 657 Book 7: Building Web Apps 677 Chapter 1: Planning a Web App 679 Chapter 2: Making a Web App Responsive 687 Chapter 3: Making a Web App Accessible 725 Chapter 4: Securing a Web App 747 Index 781

Learn the basics of coding—the easy way Programming skills are red hot in the employment market, and this book is jam-packed with walkthroughs and easy-to-understand instructions on creating the code behind powerful websites. Even if you’re not a full-time web developer, you’ll get a grasp of the basics of creating and managing websites and web applications. Work your way through the coding languages that built the internet—HTML, CSS, JavaScript®, PHP, and beyond. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to code the site of your dreams. Where will your new skills take you? 7 Mini-Books Inside… Getting ready to codeCoding the front end with HTML and CSSCoding the front end with JavaScript®Coding the back end with PHP and MySQL®Debugging your codeCoding dynamic web pagesBuilding web apps