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It starts from the very beginning of your journey, showing you what's available, what you need, and how to set up an effective development environment. After a solid base has been built, it shows you how to build up each aspect of your site, including storing, retrieving, and displaying content, adding images and video to your site, building effective site navigation and laying it all out beautifully using CSS, promoting your content so you will attract visitors to your site, and adding special effects to enhance usability and design aesthetics all with ready-made functionality available on the Web! Life as a web developer has never been easier.· Stop the Web & You're Getting On! · The Dilemma of Rolling Your Own Solutions · What You Need to Get Started · Spoiled for Choice-What the Web Offers You · Retrieving and Displaying Content with REST and Ajax · Adding Media Files · Promoting Your Content · Layout and Navigation · Adding Special Effects · What to Do and Where to Find Help When Things Go Wrong