Essential Dynamic Html Fast: Developing an Interactive Web Site

by Ayesh, Aladdin

• ISBN13: 9781852336264
• ISBN10: 1852336269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

Essential Dynamic HTML fast provides a step-by-step approach to discovering DHTML and its techniques - everything you need to know from standard HTML tags to Layers and DOM (Document Object Model). You'll learn everything you need to know to build a dynamic web site - starting from choosing which font to use, to using dynamic positioning and contents, and how to incorporate audio, video and animation, and Scripting. Start with basic HTML tags. See what makes a site interactive. Learn about multimedia effects. Discover Cascade Style Sheets (CSS): dynamic web pages. Understand Document Object Model (DOM) and layers. And learn how to manage dynamic sites: from layout to after design.Written in the inimitable style of the Essentials series, this book tells you everything you need to know to get your first project up and running, with lots of tips on how to manage a dynamic site and resourceful URL addresses.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Introduction	1	(1)
Who is this book for?	2	(1)
Client/Server model	2	(1)
HTML tags	2	(1)
Hands-on HTML	2	(1)
Assisting HTML editors	3	(2)
MS HTML tools (MS Word, MS Publisher)	5	(2)
Netscape Composer	7	(1)
MS FrontPage	7	(1)
Browsers	8	(2)
What you need to use this book	10	(1)
Getting Started	11	(7)
Introduction	11	(1)
HTML template: blank page	11	(1)
General HTML tags	12	(1)
Font tags	13	(1)
Using headers	14	(1)
Alignment tags	15	(1)
First web page	15	(3)
Organising Your Data	18	(9)
Introduction	18	(1)
Lists	18	(2)
Unordered lists	19	(1)
Ordered lists	19	(1)
Creating tables	20	(2)
Links and hypertext	22	(3)
First web site	25	(2)
Frames	27	(9)
Introduction	27	(1)
What are frames?	27	(1)
FRAMESET tag	28	(3)
Storyboarding	31	(1)
FRAME tag	31	(1)
TARGET attribute	31	(1)
NOFRAME tag and old browsers	32	(1)
First web site	32	(4)
Interactive Sites	36	(3)
Introduction	36	(1)
What does interactive mean?	36	(1)
Why interactive?	36	(2)
Ways to build an interactive site	38	(1)
Forms	39	(5)
Introduction	39	(1)
FORM tag	40	(1)
SELECT tag and OPTION tag	41	(1)
INPUT tag	42	(1)
METHOD and ACTION attributes of FORM tag	42	(1)
CGI scripting	43	(1)
Colour and Images	44	(15)
Introduction	44	(1)
Background colours	45	(1)
Font colours	46	(1)
Images	47	(1)
Background images	48	(1)
IMG tag	49	(2)
Image link	51	(1)
Using images navigation toolbar	52	(2)
Map image	54	(1)
Creating a map image	54	(5)
Multimedia Effects	59	(7)
Introduction	59	(1)
File formats	59	(1)
Sound	60	(1)
Video	60	(1)
DYNSRC attribute	60	(1)
Animation	61	(1)
MARQUEE tag	62	(1)
3D images and virtual reality	63	(1)
Plug-ins	63	(1)
EMBED tag	64	(1)
BGSOUND tag	65	(1)
Background and Layout	66	(8)
Introduction	66	(1)
Examples of layout from existing sites	66	(3)
Overview planning	69	(1)
Background planning	69	(1)
Front elements	70	(1)
Font and structure	70	(1)
Multimedia	70	(1)
Links	71	(1)
Find and collect resources	71	(1)
Overall presentation and web publishing	72	(2)
Dynamic HTML and Style Sheets	74	(4)
Introduction	74	(1)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	75	(1)
Layers	75	(1)
Document Object Model (DOM)	75	(1)
Dynamic positioning	75	(1)
Dynamic contents	75	(1)
Scripting	76	(1)
Data binding	76	(1)
Downloadable fonts	76	(1)
Technology and techniques	76	(1)
Using the head of the page	77	(1)
Cascading Style Sheets	78	(13)
Introduction	78	(1)
STYLE tag	79	(1)
STYLE attribute within the BODY tag	80	(2)
External style sheets	82	(1)
Applying style	83	(1)
BLOCKQUOTE tag	83	(2)
DIV tag	85	(2)
SPAN tag	87	(4)
Layers	91	(11)
Introduction	91	(1)
Defining layers	92	(1)
Absolute and relative positioning	92	(1)
LAYER tag	92	(2)
ILAYER tag	94	(3)
CSS layers	97	(1)
NOPLAYER tag	98	(4)
Document Object Model (DOM)	102	(9)
Introduction	102	(1)
Object, properties and methods	102	(1)
Events and event handling	103	(2)
Display in a new window	105	(3)
OBJECT tag	108	(1)
Using DOM with JavaScript	108	(1)
Using DOM in CSS and layers	108	(3)
Dynamic Positioning	111	(9)
Introduction	111	(1)
Relative vs. absolute positioning	111	(1)
Alternative forms of syntax	112	(1)
Using CSS in dynamic positioning	112	(3)
Using the LAYER/ILAYER tags in dynamic positioning	115	(2)
Try to catch the ship	117	(3)
Dynamic contents	120	(3)
Introduction	120	(1)
Dynamic images using DOM	120	(3)
Managing a Dynamic Site	123	(4)
Introduction	123	(1)
Design issues	123	(1)
Debugging a DHTML site	124	(1)
Publishing a site	125	(1)
Managing a DHTML site	126	(1)
Scripting	127	(13)
Introduction	127	(1)
SCRIPT tag	127	(1)
APPLET tag	128	(1)
JavaScript and JScript	128	(1)
VBScript	128	(1)
Perl script	128	(1)
CGI scripting	129	(1)
Basics of JavaScript	129	(6)
JavaScript functions	135	(4)
Using JavaScript	139	(1)
What is Next?	140	(4)
Introduction	140	(1)
Data binding	140	(1)
Tabular Data Control	141	(1)
JDBC Data Provider	141	(1)
Microsoft Remote Data Services	142	(1)
Downloadable fonts	142	(1)
What is next?	143	(1)
APPENDIX A: INTERESTING WEB SITES TO EXPLORE	144	(5)
Introduction	144	(1)
Business and finance	144	(1)
Computer general	145	(1)
HTML	145	(1)
Web reference	145	(1)
Tools	146	(1)
Java and JavaScript	146	(1)
Browsers and Internet software companies	146	(1)
Search engines and free email addresses	146	(1)
Lifestyle	146	(1)
International news	147	(1)
Humour	147	(2)
APPENDIX B: HTML TAGS	149	(2)
Introduction	149	(1)
Baic HTML tags	149	(1)
Basic DHTML tags	150	(1)
Index	151