Teach Yourself HTML in a Week:
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Who Should Read This Book
- What this Book Contains
- What You'll Need Before You Start
Day One: Understanding HyperText and the World Wide Web
Chapter One: The World of the World Wide Web
- What is the World Wide Web?
- Who Owns the Web?
- Web Browsers: More than Just Mosaic
- Web Servers
- Uniform Resource Locators
- Home Pages
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Two: Get Organized
- Anatomy of a Web Presentation
- What do You Want to Do on the Web?
- Set Your Goals
- Break up Your Content into Main Topics
- Ideas for Organization and Navigation
- Storyboarding Your Web Presentation
- Summary
- Q&A
Day Two: Simple Web Documents
Chapter Three: Begin With the Basics
- What HTML is...and What it Isn't
- What HTML Files Look Like
- Exercise One: Take a Look at HTML Sources
- Exercise Two: Creating an HTML Document
- Programs to Help You Write HTML
- Structuring your HTML
- The Title
- Headings
- Paragraphs
Comments
- Exercise Three: Creating a Real HTML Document
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Four: Putting the Hyper- in HyperText: All About Links
- Creating Links
- Exercise One: Link two Documents
- Linking Local Documents: Relative and Absolute Path Names
- Links to Other Documents on the Web
- Exercise Two: Linking Your Ostrich Pages to the Web
- Link Text and Organizing Your Links
- Using Link Menus
- Using Links in Text
- Summary
- Q&A
Day Three: Doing More
Chapter Five: Still More HTML
- Lists, Lists, and More Lists
- Exercise One: Creating A Link Menu
Character Styles
- Preformatted Text
- Horizontal Rules
- Line Break
- Addresses
- Quotations
- Special Characters
- Exercise Two: Do a Real HTML Page
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Six: More About Links and URLs
- Linking to Specific Places Within Documents
- Exercise One: Link Sections Between Two Documents
- Anatomy of a URL
- Kinds of URLs
- Summary
- Q&A
Day Four: Multimedia on the Web: Images, Sound and Video
Chapter Seven: Using Images
- Image Formats
- Inline Images in HTML: The <IMG> Tag
- Exercise One: Try it!
- Images and Text
- Images and Links
- Exercise Two: Navigation Icons
- Providing Alternatives
- Images with Transparent Backgrounds
- Hints for Better Use of Images
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Eight: Using External Media: Images, Sound and Video
- What's External Media?
- Specifying External Media in HTML
- Using External Images
- Exercise One: Linking to External GIF and JPEG files
- Using Sound
- Using Video
- Exercise Two: Creating a Media Archive
- Summary
- Q&A
Day Five: Designing Effective Documents
Chapter Nine: Writing and Designing Web Pages: Do's and Don'ts
- Writing for Online
- Design and Page Layout
- To Link or Not to Link
- Other Good Habits and Hints
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Ten: Designing Web Pages for Business and Fun: Some Examples
- Example One: A Company Profile
- Example Two: A Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Example Three: A Shopping Catalog
- Example Four: An Online Book
- Summary
- Q&A
Day Six: Putting it All Online
Chapter Eleven: Putting it All Online
- What Does a Web Server Do?
- Finding a Server to Use
- Installing Server Software
- Hints for Good Server Administration
- Organizing And Installing Your HTML Files
- What's my URL?
- Test, Test, and Test Again
- Registering and Advertising Your Web Pages
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Twelve: An Introduction To Gateway Scripts
- What Is a Gateway Script?
- Can I use Gateway Scripts?
- Gateway Script Output
- Exercise One: Try it
- Creating an Interactive Search
- Exercise Two: Say Hello
- Creating Special Script Output
- Summary
- Q&A
Day Seven: Advanced Topics
Chapter Thirteen: Forms and Image Maps
- Who Supports Forms?
- How are Form-Based Queries Different
- From Document-Based Queries?
- Exercise One: Tell me Your Name
- Simple Form Layout
- Exercise Two: The Surrealist Census
- More Forms Layout
- What is an Image Map?
- Creating Image Maps
- Creating Image Maps: CERN httpd
- Creating Image Maps: NCSA httpd
- Exercise Three: A Clickable Bookshelf
- Image Maps and Relative Links
- Summary
- Q&A
Chapter Fourteen: HTML Assistants: Editors and Converters
- Tag Editors
- WYSIWYG Editors
- Converters
- Should I Work in Directly in HTML or Use a Converter?
- Summary
Appendices
Appendix A: Sources for Further Information
- Collections of HTML Development Info
- WWW in General
- WWW Indexes
- Browsers
- Specifications for HTML, URLS, HTTP, etc.
- Tools for Images,/BOD
- Sound and Video
- Servers
- Web Providers
- Gateway Scripts and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- Forms and Imagemaps
- HTML Editors and Converters
- Other
Appendix B: An HTML Reference
- Basic HTML Tags
- Images
- Forms
- Character Entities
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