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| Preface | |
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| An HTML Overview | |
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| What Is HTML? | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Browsers | |
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| What Is a URL? | |
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| HTML Terminology | |
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| HTML Code Format | |
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| World Wide Web Consortium (W[superscript 3]C) | |
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| Necessary Tools | |
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| Nice-to-Have Tools | |
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| Places to Get Neat Stuff on the Net | |
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| Organizations Promoting Internet Usage | |
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| Your First Web Page | |
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| Elements of a Web Page | |
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| XHTML Structure Module | |
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| Common Coding Errors | |
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| More Web Page Elements | |
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| Editing an HTML Document | |
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| Commonly Used Empty Tags | |
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| Body Tag Attributes | |
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| A Few Considerations | |
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| Linking: Let's Get Hyper | |
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| Why Is Hypertext Hyper? | |
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| Storyboarding Page Links | |
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| Paths to Files | |
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| Intersystem Source Anchors | |
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| Intrapage Targets | |
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| Intrapage Source Anchors | |
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| URLs with Intrapage Targets | |
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| Anchor Placement | |
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| Intrasystem Source Anchors | |
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| One-Way Streets | |
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| The "Click Here" Faux Pas | |
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| Mailto: Protocol | |
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| Page Footers | |
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| Server-Side Includes | |
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| Lists: Bringing Order out of Chaos | |
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| Plain-Text Lists | |
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| List-Making Tags | |
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| Ordered and Unordered Lists | |
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| HTML-Compliant Code | |
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| Lists of Lists: Nesting | |
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| Readability | |
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| Lists of Definitions | |
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| XHTML List Module | |
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| Deprecated List Forms: Menus and Directories | |
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| Formatting: Is What You See What You Get? | |
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| Glyphs and Fonts | |
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| Document-Wide Style Changes | |
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| Inline Styles | |
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| Turning Off Formatting | |
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| Deprecated Font-Handling Techniques | |
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| Final Comment | |
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| Images: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | |
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| Images and Multimedia | |
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| Image Formats | |
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| Choosing an Image Format | |
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| Image Sizes | |
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| Bits per Bixel (BPP) | |
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| Graphics Tips | |
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| [left angle bracket]img[right angle bracket] | |
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| Line Breaks | |
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| Centering Images | |
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| Image Borders | |
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| Image Margins | |
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| Images as Bullets | |
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| Image Links | |
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| Two HTML Coding Tricks | |
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| To Image or Not to Image | |
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| Tables: Data in Rows and Columns | |
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| What's in a Table? | |
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| Table Containers | |
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| Changing Standards | |
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| Controlling White Space | |
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| Table Text Alignment | |
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| Table Data and Headers | |
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| Table Captions | |
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| Table Columns | |
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| Scrolling Big Tables | |
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| XHTML Table Module | |
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| STYLE: Some Have It and Some Don't | |
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| What Is a Cascading Style Sheet? | |
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| Why Use External Style Sheets? | |
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| Applying External Style Sheets | |
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| Classes of Styles | |
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| Style-Sheet Elements to Divide and Span | |
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| Common Style Properties | |
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| Changing Link Colors | |
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| Box Definitions | |
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| Media Types | |
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| Paged Media | |
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| Printer-Friendly Web Pages | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Multimedia: Watch Your Inclusions | |
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| Using Multimedia | |
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| XHTML Object Module | |
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| When to Use Code Augmentation | |
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| Adding Sound | |
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| Types of Sound Files | |
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| Choosing Formats | |
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| Aural Style Sheets | |
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| Ethical Questions | |
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| Adding Video | |
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| Streaming Audio/Video | |
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| To Link or to Copy? | |
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| Frames: Divide and Conquer | |
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| Considerations When Using Frames | |
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| Frame Navigation | |
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| Formatting Frames | |
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| Alternatives to Frames | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Forms and Forms Processing | |
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| Form and Function | |
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| Handling Electronic Mail | |
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| Designing Forms | |
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| Graphical Buttons | |
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| Drop-Down List Boxes | |
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| XHTML Form Module | |
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| Processing Data Automagically (CGI) | |
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| How CGI Works | |
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| CGI, Metatags, and Other Tricks of the Trade | |
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| Processing Data Automagically | |
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| How CGI Works | |
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| [left angle bracket]base/[right angle bracket] | |
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| Creating New Tags | |
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| Multicolumn Pages | |
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| Headlines | |
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| Sidebars | |
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| Pseudo-Elements and Pseudo-Class | |
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| JavaScript Programs for Your Pages | |
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| What Is JavaScripit? | |
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| Misconceptions About JavaScript | |
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| Introducing JavaScript | |
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| The Hello() Function | |
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| Invoking Functions | |
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| Basic Programming Structures | |
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| Object-Oriented Concepts in JavaScript | |
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| Date Object | |
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| Intrinsic Events | |
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| Document Object | |
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| Window Object | |
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| Another Interesting Bit | |
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| Things JavaScript Should Not Be Forced to Do | |
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| Dynamic HTML: Charismatic Pages | |
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| Image Maps | |
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| Professional Rollovers | |
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| Color-Changing on the Fly | |
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| A Little Fancier Color-Changing | |
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| How the Cookie Crumbles | |
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| XML: The Next Best Thing | |
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| What Is XML, Anyway? | |
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| The Language of XML | |
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| DTD Up Close and Personal | |
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| The Reason for XML | |
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| DTD Models | |
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| Relationship between XML and XHTML | |
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| XML Is More Than a Markup Language | |
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| Building HTML from XML | |
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| Creating PDF Output from XML | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| XML and Databases | |
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| Pragmatic Hypertext: It Ain't All Pictures! | |
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| Common Misconceptions | |
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| Text | |
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| Literature | |
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| Corporate/Government Documentation | |
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| Electronic Books (Ebooks) | |
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| Web-Based Reference Manuals | |
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| Online Help | |
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| Online Education (Distance Learning) | |
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| The Wireless Web | |
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| Knowledge Is Power | |
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| Web Site versus Web Page | |
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| Migrating from Text to Hypertext | |
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| Online Text Sites | |
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| A Style Manual | |
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| File Transfer Protocol | |
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| History of the Internet | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |