Whether you're building a sophisticated commercial Web site or just creating an online spot to call home, good Web site development is about a lot more than just HTML nowadays, and Creating Cool Web Sites spends lots of time exploring the nuances of xhtml and Cascading Style Sheets in a way you're sure to understand. Incorporating the best of Creating Cool HTML 4.0 Web Pages and Dynamic HTML Weekend Crash Course, this book adds tons of critical new and updated information on xhtml, CSS, JavaScript, page validation, weblogs and weblog tools, optimal search engine ranking and much, much more.

There's no time like the present to learn more about how to get the best possible results for your Web page building efforts. After all, you can certainly build good Web sites with free tools like NotePad, TextEdit, or even vi, but regardless of your tools, you still have to know what you're doing and why!

A great place to start is to read the sample chapter: Moving into the 21st Century with Cascading Style Sheets, then explore some of the examples from the book. Like what you've seen? Why not buy the book?

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