Dear Readers:

In putting this site together for your information--and hopefully, also for your edification--we keep learning more about our chosen open source content management system: Joomla. If you’d like to learn more about this environment and its multitude of add-ons, you can start your exploration at www.joomla.org. There, the main menu section includes a good overview section (What is Joomla?) as well as a pretty comprehensive list of frequently-asked questions, or FAQ.

For our parts, what we’d like to understand is how interesting or potentially useful do you find a system like Joomla? Given its Open Source status, it’s free to grab and use. Though there is a learning curve and some areas of potential difficulty involved in its use, we’re hoping you’ll find it interesting enough to tell us to tell you more about it here on this Web site. If you’d like more Joomla information, and perhaps even a blog on our ongoing Joomla adventures (this is not the first time we’ve used this toolset to run Web sites, nor is this the only Web site for which we’re currently using Joomla), we’d be happy to tell you more, and share our learning with you.

In fact, we’re open to your input and feedback in many areas—particularly, as regards the book around which this site is built: HTML, XHTML, and CSS For Dummies, 6^th Edition. But we’re also open to input, suggestions, and critiques about this site, our choice of tools, and anything else you might care to share with us. Shoot us an This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or join this site and post to the message boards available in the Community section here.

Thanks in advance for your input, information, and support!

--Ed--

Note from the webmaster: This site is running Joomla v1.5 with a number of nifty add-ons, including Community Builder and the Fireboard Community Forum. We created the site template based on the "legacy" structure, so it's something of a Frankenstein under the covers! Never a dull moment... -Rebekkah

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Welcome to the wild, wacky, and wonderful possibilities of the World Wide Web, more simply called the Web. In this book, we reveal the mysteries of the markup languages that are the lifeblood of the Web -- the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its successor, XHTML, along with the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language widely used to make the other stuff look good. Because HTML and XTHML (we use (X)HTML in this book to refer to both versions at once) and CSS may be used to build Web pages, learning how to use them brings you into the fold of Web authors and content developers.

If you've tried to build your own Web pages but found it too forbidding, now you can relax. If you can dial a telephone or find your keys in the morning, you too can become an (X)HTML author. No kidding!

This book keeps the technobabble to a minimum and sticks with plain English whenever possible. Besides plain talk about hypertext, (X)HTML, and the Web, we include lots of examples, plus tag-by-tag instructions to help you build your very own Web pages with minimum muss and fuss. We also provide more examples about what to do with your Web pages after they're created so you can share them with the world. We also explain the differences between HTML 4 and XHTML, so you can decide whether you want to stick with the best-known and longest-lived Web markup language (HTML) or its later and greater successor (XHTML).

This web site is the companion to the book, and contains (X)HTML and CSS examples from the chapters in usable form -- plus pointers to interesting widgets that you can use to embellish your own documents and astound your friends. Begin browsing here!

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