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Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML and JavaScript
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Chapter 8: Testing, Launching, and Maintaining
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This book covers the entire process of building a website. This process involves
much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides you with all
the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and
developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional, best-practice-based
results.
There is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place,
and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why
this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it.
Planning is vital, so you'll also learn how to use techniques such as brainstorming,
wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible
start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.
An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential to any web professional,
so this book explains how XHTML should be used to structure content so that
the markup adheres to current web standards. You'll learn about the wide range
of HTML elements available to you, and you'll learn how and when to use them
through building example web pages.
Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look
largely the same. CSS gives you the ability to set your website apart from the
rest while maintaining the integrity of your markup. You'll learn how CSS works
and how to apply styles to your pages, enabling you to realize your design ideas
in the browser.
JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to
use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and
introduces the concepts of programming using it. You'll also see how JavaScript
works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax and in turn where Ajax fits into
the wider Web 2.0 picture.
While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers
and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability
or disability, and the book explains how best to do these tasks. Then, it discusses
the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to
work for all its users throughout its life-cycle.
The book concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide
to the different options available and explaining differences between available
products. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals,
Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Foundation
Website Creation provides invaluable information applicable to every web project,
regardless of size, scope, or budget.
In this book you'll:
• See how the Web has developed and the role web standards play
• Learn how to plan and manage the building of a website
• Learn how to separate content from presentation with HTML and CSS
• See how JavaScript can be used to enhance your website
• Learn how best to test, launch, and maintain a website
Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 Introducing the Past, Present, and Future of the Web
• Chapter 2 Keeping a Project on Track
• Chapter 3 Planning and High-Level Design
• Chapter 4 Writing Markup with HTML and XHTML
• Chapter 5 Exploring Fundamental Concepts of CSS
• Chapter 6 Developing CSS in Practice: From Design to Deployment
• Chapter 7 Creating Interactivity with JavaScript
• Chapter 8 Testing, Launching, and Maintaining
• Chapter 9 Web 2.0: Using Ajax and Social Software
• Chapter 10 Using Server-Side Technologies
• Afterword The Business of the Web
About the Authors
Jonathan Lane is the president of Industry Interactive, Inc., a Mayne Island,
BC, Canada‚-based web development company. Industry Interactive offers a range
of services from hosted web applications to standards-based web application
development. Its newest product offering, Mailmanagr, provides an e-mail interface
to Basecamp, the popular web-based project management application. Jonathan
started his career working as the web development coordinator for the University
of Lethbridge, where he managed the design and development of research, department,
and teaching websites, as well as helped move the university's web strategy
forward. Jonathan is married and has a pair of sons, Reilly and Parker, which
pretty much occupies all of his nonworking time.
Born and raised in New York City, Meitar Moscovitz first touched a computer
when he was an infant in 1986: an Apple Mac Plus. At his father's prompting,
he created his first website at the age of 12 and through it created the first
online community for teenagers and young adults with Bipolar Disorder. Out of
school by 16, he officially joined the workforce as a junior Network Administrator,
and at 18 he started freelancing full-time as a web developer. After brief excursions
into corporate IT with such companies as Apple and Opsware (now HP), he returned
to professional web development and worked on websites for clients including
Oxygen Media, Inc. and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). He now lives in Sydney, Australia, with his brilliant girlfriend of
three years, Sara Hames, and works as the senior front-end web developer and
IT director for Digital Eskimo, Pty Ltd. In his rapidly diminishing spare time,
Meitar enjoys volunteering his technical talents to non-profit organizations
and other small groups. He's also an avid blogger and juggler, and has way too
many profiles on social networking sites. Joseph R. Lewis works as
a team lead for web development at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore,
California. Joe is a recognized expert in standards-based web development and
accessibility, and he has presented and lectured in technology subjects nationwide.
Before falling into the obsessive career of web design and development, Joe
was a professional musician. He is a classically trained double bassist and
graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and he has performed with
orchestras and chamber groups in major concert halls and festivals across the
United States and Europe. When not cranking out code, writing nerd-struck pulp,
or practicing music late at night, Joe spends his time with his adorable wife
and two crazy kids.
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