Even More Excellent HTML

Name: Even More Excellent HTML
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ISBN: 9780072509168

ISBN-10: 0072509163

ISBN-13: 9780072509168

Edition: 2002

Authors: Timothy T. Gottleber, Timothy N. Trainor

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Even More Excellent HTML goes beyond the typical step-by-step, cookbook-style approach to provide comprehensive coverage of HTML related materials and concepts.

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List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Preface
An HTML Overview	p. 1
What Is HTML?	p. 2
What's in a Name?	p. 2
Browsers	p. 5
What Is a URL?	p. 9
HTML Terminology	p. 12
HTML Code Format	p. 14
World Wide Web Consortium (W[superscript 3]C)	p. 14
Necessary Tools	p. 16
Nice-to-Have Tools	p. 18
Places to Get Neat Stuff on the Net	p. 22
Organizations Promoting Internet Usage	p. 25
Your First Web Page	p. 27
Elements of a Web Page	p. 28
XHTML Structure Module	p. 36
Common Coding Errors	p. 36
More Web Page Elements	p. 37
Editing an HTML Document	p. 42
Commonly Used Empty Tags	p. 42
Body Tag Attributes	p. 44
A Few Considerations	p. 49
Linking: Let's Get Hyper	p. 55
Why Is Hypertext Hyper?	p. 56
Storyboarding Page Links	p. 56
Paths to Files	p. 63
Intersystem Source Anchors	p. 66
Intrapage Targets	p. 68
Intrapage Source Anchors	p. 70
URLs with Intrapage Targets	p. 71
Anchor Placement	p. 71
Intrasystem Source Anchors	p. 72
One-Way Streets	p. 72
The "Click Here" Faux Pas	p. 74
Mailto: Protocol	p. 75
Page Footers	p. 75
Server-Side Includes	p. 77
Lists: Bringing Order out of Chaos	p. 81
Plain-Text Lists	p. 82
List-Making Tags	p. 82
Ordered and Unordered Lists	p. 82
HTML-Compliant Code	p. 91
Lists of Lists: Nesting	p. 97
Readability	p. 100
Lists of Definitions	p. 100
XHTML List Module	p. 103
Deprecated List Forms: Menus and Directories	p. 103
Formatting: Is What You See What You Get?	p. 109
Glyphs and Fonts	p. 110
Document-Wide Style Changes	p. 111
Inline Styles	p. 120
Turning Off Formatting	p. 130
Deprecated Font-Handling Techniques	p. 132
Final Comment	p. 133
Images: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words	p. 137
Images and Multimedia	p. 138
Image Formats	p. 138
Choosing an Image Format	p. 140
Image Sizes	p. 140
Bits per Bixel (BPP)	p. 141
Graphics Tips	p. 142
[left angle bracket]img[right angle bracket]	p. 144
Line Breaks	p. 153
Centering Images	p. 154
Image Borders	p. 156
Image Margins	p. 158
Images as Bullets	p. 160
Image Links	p. 161
Two HTML Coding Tricks	p. 163
To Image or Not to Image	p. 164
Tables: Data in Rows and Columns	p. 169
What's in a Table?	p. 170
Table Containers	p. 171
Changing Standards	p. 178
Controlling White Space	p. 181
Table Text Alignment	p. 183
Table Data and Headers	p. 186
Table Captions	p. 193
Table Columns	p. 195
Scrolling Big Tables	p. 199
XHTML Table Module	p. 201
STYLE: Some Have It and Some Don't	p. 207
What Is a Cascading Style Sheet?	p. 208
Why Use External Style Sheets?	p. 208
Applying External Style Sheets	p. 209
Classes of Styles	p. 212
Style-Sheet Elements to Divide and Span	p. 215
Common Style Properties	p. 219
Changing Link Colors	p. 224
Box Definitions	p. 224
Media Types	p. 233
Paged Media	p. 233
Printer-Friendly Web Pages	p. 236
Conclusions	p. 237
Multimedia: Watch Your Inclusions	p. 241
Using Multimedia	p. 242
XHTML Object Module	p. 252
When to Use Code Augmentation	p. 252
Adding Sound	p. 253
Types of Sound Files	p. 253
Choosing Formats	p. 257
Aural Style Sheets	p. 257
Ethical Questions	p. 261
Adding Video	p. 261
Streaming Audio/Video	p. 263
To Link or to Copy?	p. 264
Frames: Divide and Conquer	p. 267
Considerations When Using Frames	p. 268
Frame Navigation	p. 269
Formatting Frames	p. 271
Alternatives to Frames	p. 289
Final Comments	p. 291
Forms and Forms Processing	p. 297
Form and Function	p. 298
Handling Electronic Mail	p. 299
Designing Forms	p. 301
Graphical Buttons	p. 322
Drop-Down List Boxes	p. 328
XHTML Form Module	p. 336
Processing Data Automagically (CGI)	p. 336
How CGI Works	p. 338
CGI, Metatags, and Other Tricks of the Trade	p. 345
Processing Data Automagically	p. 345
How CGI Works	p. 345
[left angle bracket]base/[right angle bracket]	p. 354
Creating New Tags	p. 355
Multicolumn Pages	p. 363
Headlines	p. 365
Sidebars	p. 366
Pseudo-Elements and Pseudo-Class	p. 366
JavaScript Programs for Your Pages	p. 373
What Is JavaScripit?	p. 374
Misconceptions About JavaScript	p. 374
Introducing JavaScript	p. 376
The Hello() Function	p. 378
Invoking Functions	p. 379
Basic Programming Structures	p. 380
Object-Oriented Concepts in JavaScript	p. 383
Date Object	p. 386
Intrinsic Events	p. 388
Document Object	p. 389
Window Object	p. 391
Another Interesting Bit	p. 403
Things JavaScript Should Not Be Forced to Do	p. 405
Dynamic HTML: Charismatic Pages	p. 409
Image Maps	p. 410
Professional Rollovers	p. 420
Color-Changing on the Fly	p. 421
A Little Fancier Color-Changing	p. 424
How the Cookie Crumbles	p. 426
XML: The Next Best Thing	p. 437
What Is XML, Anyway?	p. 438
The Language of XML	p. 438
DTD Up Close and Personal	p. 439
The Reason for XML	p. 440
DTD Models	p. 441
Relationship between XML and XHTML	p. 442
XML Is More Than a Markup Language	p. 443
Building HTML from XML	p. 445
Creating PDF Output from XML	p. 448
What's Next?	p. 449
XML and Databases	p. 450
Pragmatic Hypertext: It Ain't All Pictures!	p. 455
Common Misconceptions	p. 456
Text	p. 456
Literature	p. 457
Corporate/Government Documentation	p. 459
Electronic Books (Ebooks)	p. 460
Web-Based Reference Manuals	p. 461
Online Help	p. 463
Online Education (Distance Learning)	p. 464
The Wireless Web	p. 465
Knowledge Is Power	p. 467
Web Site versus Web Page	p. 468
Migrating from Text to Hypertext	p. 469
Online Text Sites	p. 472
A Style Manual	p. 475
File Transfer Protocol	p. 485
History of the Internet	p. 497
Glossary	p. 503
Index	p. 527
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