Html Goodies

by Burns, Joe

• ISBN13: 9780789718235
• ISBN10: 0789718235
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Que

Summary

"HTML Goodies, Second Edition" is based on the most popular tutorials at HTMLGoodies.com. It starts with a series of short primers teaching the basics of building Web pages, then continues with detailed tutorials covering Linking Adding images Using Tables and Frames Working with Style Sheets Later chapters move beyond HTML, demonstrating how to add sound or video, JavaScript and CGI programming to Web pages. The book finishes with a series of useful appendices you can refer to for quick reference.

Author Biography

Joe Burns, Ph.D, is a professor of communications at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 1
My Thoughts on Building a Home Page	p. 2
The Home Page	p. 3
Images	p. 4
Backgrounds	p. 5
Colors	p. 5
Text	p. 5
How to Build a Web Site in 7 Steps	p. 7
What You Need to Get Started	p. 9
What Do I Need to Create a Web Page?	p. 9
What Is HTML?	p. 10
Creating HTML Documents with a Word Processor	p. 11
Flags and Commands	p. 15
What Are Flags?	p. 15
Open and Close Flags	p. 16
Single Flags	p. 17
Writing Your First Web Page	p. 18
Manipulating Text	p. 21
Heading Flags	p. 21
Font Size Commands	p. 22
Centering Text and Aligning It to the Right	p. 23
Making a Link to Someone Else	p. 25
Linking to Other Web Sites	p. 25
Allowing People to Email You from Your Page	p. 27
Placing an Image on Your Page	p. 29
Inserting the Image	p. 29
Image Formats	p. 30
Where Do I Get My Images?	p. 31
Creating a Clickable Image	p. 32
Manipulating Images	p. 35
Placement on the Page	p. 35
Aligning Text with Images	p. 36
Changing Image Size	p. 36
Making Horizontal Lines of Different Lengths	p. 38
Graduation Day	p. 41
How Do I Get an Internet Service Provider?	p. 41
How Do I Get My Pages on the WWW?	p. 42
Using FTP Software	p. 42
What Do Those HTML Assistants Do?	p. 46
Where Do I Go Now?	p. 47
Everything You Need to Know About Text and Graphics	p. 49
Playing with Text	p. 51
Text Codes	p. 51
Changing Text Colors	p. 58
Changing Text Fonts	p. 60
Indents and Lists	p. 62
Newspaper Columns	p. 69
Making Links	p. 71
Setting Up a Site	p. 71
Page Jumps	p. 75
Active Images (Images That Act Like Links)	p. 77
Creating Links That Open a New Browser Window	p. 80
How to Create a Dynamic Page	p. 81
So You Don't Want Links Underlined?	p. 83
Adding Images and Backgrounds	p. 87
Images	p. 87
Grabbing Images Off the Web	p. 87
Backgrounds	p. 123
Imagemaps	p. 133
Server-Side Imagemaps	p. 133
Client-Side Imagemaps	p. 139
Fake Imagemap	p. 142
Getting More Control Over the Layout of Your Web Pages	p. 147
All About Tables	p. 149
Simple Tables	p. 149
Advanced Table Commands	p. 157
A Table Within a Table	p. 161
Using Tables to Make an HTML Calendar	p. 163
Adding Color to Your Tables	p. 166
Using Frames	p. 171
Introduction to Frames	p. 171
Simple Frames	p. 173
Why Use Frames?	p. 179
Dynamics of Frames, Names, and Targets	p. 179
Advanced Frame Commands	p. 183
Seamless Frames	p. 189
Changing Multiple Frame Cells	p. 193
Frames Border Color	p. 196
Adding Link Buttons and Forms	p. 199
Simple Forms	p. 204
Creating a Guestbook	p. 213
Image Submit Buttons	p. 216
So You Want a Searchable Database, Huh?	p. 217
Cascading Style Sheets and Layers	p. 223
Basic Style Sheet Format and Commands	p. 223
Positioning Things Precisely on Your Web Page	p. 231
Using Classes and IDs	p. 237
CSS and Forms	p. 241
Using Layer Commands	p. 245
Beyond HTML	p. 249
Behind the Scenes on Your Web Site	p. 251
HEAD Commands	p. 251
Declaring Your Version of HTML	p. 256
So You Want an FTP Directory, Huh?	p. 257
Web Pages Without the .html Extension	p. 260
Adding Sound and Video	p. 265
Sound on the Net	p. 265
RealAudio: A Special Format	p. 272
Video on the Net	p. 276
Net Notes	p. 280
Java Applets and JavaScript	p. 281
What's the Difference Between Java and JavaScript?	p. 281
Java	p. 283
Advanced Java Applets	p. 288
JavaScript	p. 294
Advanced JavaScript Commands	p. 298
Using External JavaScripts	p. 317
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)	p. 329
What You Need to Know About CGI	p. 329
Using a Hit Counter	p. 329
Putting a Counter on Your Site	p. 333
Putting a Guestbook on Your Site	p. 341
BBS CGI	p. 344
Internet Explorer Tutorials and DHTML	p. 349
Using Microsoft Internet Explorer-Specific Commands	p. 349
Using IE Marquees	p. 352
Using IE Active Channels	p. 354
Using VBScript with IE	p. 359
Using Inline Frames with IE	p. 364
Using Dynamic HTML	p. 370
Building Web Site Banners	p. 379
Software Tools Needed	p. 379
Getting Started	p. 381
Creating New Images	p. 384
Learning to Crop	p. 386
Importing Images--Copying and Pasting	p. 390
Adding Text and Shadows	p. 397
Animating the Images	p. 405
Activating the Image--Show Time	p. 408
Other Stuff You Should Really Know	p. 415
Copyright Questions and Answers	p. 415
What Are Cookies?	p. 422
Using META Commands with Search Engines	p. 429
How Do I Register My Pages with Search Engines?	p. 432
Getting Them All the Same: Cross-Platform Tips for HTML Artists	p. 435
How Do I Get My Own Domain? How the World Wide Web Works	p. 441
Getting Your Own Domain	p. 445
How Do I Get Advertisers on My Site?	p. 448
So You Want a Web Ring, Huh?	p. 452
So You Want a Password-Protected Page?	p. 455
What Is XML?	p. 457
So You Want to Screen Capture?	p. 462
How to Use Telnet	p. 464
Appendixes	p. 469
Everything You Need to Know About HTML 4.0	p. 471
Reader's Questions Regarding HTML 4.0	p. 471
Will You Puh-Leeze Get to HTML 4.0!?	p. 474
Take Them for a Test Drive	p. 478
That's the Scoop	p. 480
Useful Charts	p. 481
Color Codes	p. 481
Ampersand Commands	p. 486
ASCII Commands	p. 488
Valuable Links	p. 491
Links to Search Engines	p. 491
Search for Search Engines	p. 493
Registering with Search Engines	p. 494
Sites Offering JavaScripts	p. 495
HTML Helper Applications	p. 496
Internet Browsers	p. 497
Index	p. 499
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