Forget the complicated instructions and baffling techspeak found in other guides, The Quick-and-Easy Web Site gives you straightforward instruction on how to build a Web page that really delivers. It's simple. It's fast. And it's certain to take your small business to the next level. Written for the small-business owner on the go, this book gets your Web site up and running in just one day. It walks you through the five easy steps that will get your company the Internet attention it deserves. Learn how to: Purchase your domain name Write powerful Web content Design your page's layout Find a Web host Publish your site Once your new site goes active, you'll attract new customers in no time. This fast and effective guide puts you and your company where you belong-on the Web! Paula Peters is the owner of Peters Writing Services, Inc., a firm that specializes in writing and designing marketing materials, including Web sites. She has written marketing materials for a variety of Fortune 500 companies across the globe and has published more than 50 articles, essays, and stories. The author of The Ultimate Marketing Toolkit, Peters also has taught thousands of entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers over the past 12 years.

Students develop their Internet research skills as they learn about the body’s systems, the senses, health, genes, and more. Reproducible graphic organizers help students analyze and record information they find on the Web. Then they use what they’ve learned to conduct simple science experiments, create easy projects, and complete fun activities. Students will invent an animal with a unique skeleton, write a play about the digestive system, create optical illusions, and more. For use with Grades 3-6.

Build students Internet skills as they expand their knowledge of stars, moons, planets, space exploration, and more. This book offers more than 100 space Web sites, plus reproducible graphic organizers that help students record the information they gather. Using this information, students build a star life-cycle mobile, write their own myth about a constellation, create travel brochures of the planets, complete a timeline of historic space events, and more! For use with Grades 3-6."

From its causes and impacts to its solutions, the issues surrounding climate change involve multidisciplinary science and technology. This handbook addresses all aspects of energy in the context of mitigation of atmospheric carbon and resultant climate change.

Twenty fun, Web based activities are accompanied by reproducible graphic organizers that enable kids to learn the very latest information on their own. Focusing on the U.S. government, activities include making a mobile showing the power of balance between branches of government, creating a personal "contacts" list of elected officials, and more. Illustrations.

Contains twenty reproducible web-based activities designed to help students in grades six through eight learn about the weather.

Learn to create Web pages quickly and easily with PHP—no prior programming experience required! PHP 6 Fast & Easy Web Development provides a step-by-step, learn-by-example path to learning through easy-to-understand language and illustrations. Unlike the verbose text-only chapters found in most programming books, the Fast & Easy Web Development style appeals to users who are new to PHP, or to programming in general. The first three chapters are dedicated to getting Apache, MySQL, and PHP up and running on your Windows or Linux machine. You’ll be surprised at how simple it is, and how quickly you’ll be working. From there, you’ll learn how to create multi-part scripts, display dynamic content, work with MySQL databases, restrict access to certain pages of your site using PHP, create contact management systems, and work with XML. After completing this book, you will have a strong foundation in the basics of Web-based technologies and application design, and will be prepared to learn more advanced topics and programming methods.