| | | About the Author |
| | | Acknowledgments |
| | | We Want to Hear from You! |
| | | Reader Services |
| | | Introduction |
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| | Put Your HTML Page Online Today |
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| | Beyond HTML |
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| | How to Use This Book |
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| | Visual Examples |
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| | Special Highlighted Elements |
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| | Q&A, Quiz, and Exercises |
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| | The Sams Publishing Website |
| | | Part I.
Your First Web Page |
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| | Hour 1.
Understanding HTML and XHTML |
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| | What Is a Web Page? |
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| | How Web Pages Work |
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| | The Pieces and Parts of a Web Page |
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| | The Many Faces of HTML |
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| | The Scoop on HTML, XML, and XHTML |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 2.
Create a Web Page Right Now |
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| | Getting Started with a Simple Web Page |
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| | HTML Tags Every Web Page Must Have |
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| | Organizing a Page with Paragraphs and Line Breaks |
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| | Calling Out Text with Headings |
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| | Peeking at Other People's Pages |
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| | Validating Your Pages |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 3.
Linking to Other Web Pages |
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| | Linking to Another Web Page |
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| | Linking Between Your Own Pages |
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| | Addressing Web Pages |
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| | Opening a Link in a New Browser Window |
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| | Linking to Google Maps |
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| | Adding Links to a Practical Example |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 4.
Publishing Your HTML Pages |
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| | Setting Up Web Space on the Internet |
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| | Transferring Pages to a Web Server |
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| | Making a File Available for Downloading |
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| | Other HTML Publishing Options |
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| | Testing Your Web Pages |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
| | | Part II.
Building Practical Web Pages with HTML |
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| | Hour 5.
Basic Text Alignment and Formatting |
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| | The Old Way Versus the New Way |
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| | Aligning Text on a Page |
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| | The Three Types of HTML Lists |
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| | Placing Lists Within Lists |
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| | Boldface, Italics, and Special Text Formatting |
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| | Tweaking the Font |
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| | Working with Special Characters |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 6.
Creating Text Links |
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| | Linking Within a Page Using Anchors |
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| | Linking to a Specific Part of Another Page |
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| | Linking Your Email Address into a Page |
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| | Linking to Wikipedia |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 7.
Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics |
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| | Choosing Graphics Software |
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| | The Least You Need to Know About Graphics |
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| | Preparing Photographic Images |
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| | Creating Banners and Buttons |
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| | Reducing the Number of Colors in an Image |
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| | Interlaced GIFs and Progressive JPEGs |
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| | Creating Animated Web Graphics |
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| | Assembling Images into an Animation |
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| | Generating Transitions and Text Effects |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 8.
Putting Graphics on a Web Page |
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| | Placing an Image on a Web Page |
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| | Describing an Image with Text |
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| | Turning Images into Links |
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| | Aligning Images |
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| | Specifying Image Width and Height |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 9.
Custom Backgrounds and Colors |
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| | Exploring Background and Text Colors |
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| | Specifying Custom Colors |
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| | Using Background Image Tiles |
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| | Working with Transparent Images |
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| | Creating Your Own Tiled Backgrounds |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 10.
Graphical Links and Imagemaps |
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| | Why Imagemaps Aren't Always Necessary |
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| | Mapping Regions Within an Image |
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| | Creating Client-Side Imagemaps |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
| | | Part III.
Creative Web Page Design |
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| | Hour 11.
Using Tables to Organize and Lay Out Your Pages |
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| | Creating a Simple Table |
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| | Controlling the Size of Tables |
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| | Alignment and Spanning Within Tables |
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| | Table Backgrounds and Spacing |
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| | Creative Page Layout with Tables |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 12.
Formatting Web Pages with CSS Style Sheets |
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| | Understanding CSS |
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| | A Basic Style Sheet |
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| | A CSS Style Primer |
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| | Using Style Classes |
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| | Internal Style Sheets and Inline Styles |
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| | A Quick Style Sheet Recap |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 13.
Digging Deeper into Style Sheet Formatting |
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| | Advanced Text Formatting with CSS |
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| | Changing the Appearance of Links |
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| | Commenting CSS Code |
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| | CSS Tips and Tricks |
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| | Revisiting the Hockey Player Example |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 14.
Using Style Sheets for Page Layout |
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| | The Whole Scoop on Positioning |
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| | Controlling the Way Things Stack Up |
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| | Working with Margins |
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| | A Little Padding for Safety |
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| | Keeping Everything Aligned |
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| | Managing the Flow of Text |
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| | Taking Advantage of a Style Sheet Template |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 15.
Creating Print-Friendly Web Pages |
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| | What Makes a Page Print-Friendly? |
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| | Applying a Media-Specific Style Sheet |
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| | Designing a Style Sheet for Print Pages |
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| | Viewing a Web Page in Print |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 16.
Multipage Layout with Frames |
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| | What Are Frames? |
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| | Building a Frameset |
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| | Linking Between Frames and Windows |
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| | Nesting Frames Within Frames |
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| | Controlling Frame Margins, Borders, and Scrolling |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
| | | Part IV.
Dynamic Web Pages |
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| | Hour 17.
Web Page Scripting for Nonprogrammers |
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| | The Least You Need to Know About Scripting |
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| | Jazzing Things Up with Interactive Highlighting |
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| | Preloading Images for Speed |
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| | Creating an Animated Banner Ad |
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| | Displaying a Random Quote |
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| | Creating a Virtual Fish Tank |
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| | Cashing In with Google Ads on Your Site |
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| | The Wide World of JavaScript |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 18.
Gathering Information with HTML Forms |
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| | How HTML Forms Work |
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| | Creating a Form |
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| | Accepting Text Input |
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| | Identifying Each Piece of Form Data |
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| | Including Hidden Data in Forms |
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| | Exploring Form Input Controls |
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| | Submitting Form Data |
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| | Using a PayPal Buy Now Button |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 19.
Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages |
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| | Placing Multimedia Content on a Web Page |
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| | Linking to Multimedia Files |
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| | Embedding Video with Windows Media Player |
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| | Embedding Audio with RealPlayer |
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| | Automatically Embedding the Appropriate Player |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 20.
Jazz Up Your eBay Auctions with HTML and CSS |
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| | Why Use HTML and CSS on eBay? |
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| | Understanding How HTML Fits into eBay |
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| | Creating an eBay Item Listing in HTML |
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| | Providing a Link to Your About Me Page |
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| | Altering the Background of an Item Page |
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| | Creating a Slide Show Item Listing |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 21.
Create Your Own Blog |
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| | What's a Blog? |
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| | Creating a Blog on Blogger.com |
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| | Creating Your First Blog Entry |
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| | Using CSS to Dress Up Your Blog |
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| | Tying Your Blog to Your Web Site |
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| | Updating Your Blog |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
| | | Part V.
Building a Web Site |
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| | Hour 22.
Organizing and Managing a Web Site |
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| | When One Page Is Enough |
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| | Organizing a Simple Site |
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| | Organizing a Larger Site |
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| | Writing Maintainable HTML Code |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 23.
Helping People Find Your Web Pages |
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| | Publicizing Your Web Site |
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| | Listing Your Pages with the Major Search Sites |
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| | Providing Hints for Search Engines |
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| | Auto Loading Another Web Page |
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| | Documenting the Full Address of a Page |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
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| | Hour 24.
Beyond Traditional Web Sites |
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| | HTML Beyond the Web |
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| | From Calculators to Wireless Communicators |
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| | HTML as the New User Interface |
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| | The Digital Media Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
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| | Preparing Yourself for Tomorrow |
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| | The Future of HTML Applications |
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| | Summary |
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| | Q&A |
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| | Workshop |
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| | Exercises |
| | | Part VI.
Appendixes |
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| | Appendix A.
Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions |
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| | The 24 Top Questions from Readers of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours |
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| | Appendix B.
HTML and CSS Resources on the Internet |
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| | General HTML, XHTML, and CSS Information |
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| | Web Page Design |
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| | Software |
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| | Graphics |
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| | Multimedia |
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| | Advanced Developer Resources |
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| | HTML Validators |
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| | Directories with HTML Information |
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| | Web Site Services |
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| | Free Web Site Hosting |
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| | Appendix C.
Complete XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 Quick Reference |
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| | XHTML Structure |
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| | XHTML Text Phrases and Paragraphs |
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| | XHTML Text Formatting Elements |
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| | XHTML Lists |
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| | XHTML Links |
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| | XHTML Tables |
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| | XHTML Frames |
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| | XHTML Embedded Content |
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| | XHTML Style |
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| | XHTML Forms |
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| | XHTML Scripts |
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| | XHTML Common Attributes and Events |
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| | CSS Dimension Style Properties |
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| | CSS Text and Font Style Properties |
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| | CSS Background Style Properties |
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| | CSS Border Style Properties |
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| | CSS Margin Style Properties |
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| | CSS Padding Style Properties |
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| | CSS Layout and Display Style Properties |
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| | CSS List and Marker Style Properties |
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| | CSS Table Style Properties |
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| | Appendix D.
Migrating from HTML to XHTML |
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| | Differences Between XHTML 1 and HTML 4 |
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| | XHTML and Document Validity |
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| | Declaring XHTML Namespaces |
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| | Converting HTML Documents to XHTML |
| | | Index |
