Web Design with HTML and CSS

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Video tutorials

Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom

Video tutorials

The http://www.DigitalClassroomBooks.com/webdesign site provides Web Design with HTML and CSS

Digital Classroom book readers with video tutorials that enhance the content of this book.

The videos use the popular Silverlight player for viewing on your desktop or notebook

computer, or use iPad-compatible video if you are using an iPad to read an electronic version

of this book. Most other ePub devices are not optimized for playing video, and you should

use a notebook, desktop, or tablet computer for viewing the video tutorials if you are using a

dedicated e-reader such as a nook, Kindle, kobo, or Sony e-reader. An Internet connection is

necessary for viewing the supplemental video fi les.

The videos enhance your learning as key concepts and instructions are discussed by the

book’s authors. The video tutorials supplement the book’s contents, and do not replace the

book. They are not intended to cover every item discussed in the book, but will help you

gain a better or more clear understanding of topics discussed in many lessons of the book.

Hosting your websites

The websites you will create using this book require only your computer, but eventually you will

want to create websites to share with the world. To do this, you will need to put your website on

a computer connected to the Internet that is always accessible. This is known as a web server. If

you don’t want to get involved in creating computers that host a website, you can pay a company

to provide space on their web servers for you. A good place to look for a hosting provider is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/jumpstart/hosting.aspx. If you want to set up your own computer for

hosting a web server and you are using any Windows computer, you can turn it into a web server

at no cost by using the Web Platform Installer available at: http://www.microsoft.com/web. If you are a

Mac OS user, you can get Mac OS X server from Apple to use a Mac OS computer as a web server.

If you are just getting started, you don’t need to worry about web hosting just yet. But you’ll

fi nd this information useful once you start creating sites.