Book description
Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual
format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up
and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated
edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and
best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear
instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's
HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design,
structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images,
links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add
sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug
your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find
extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera,
Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and
more.
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
Page for page, the best content and value around.
Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Special thanks to
- Introduction
- Web Page Building Blocks
- Working with Web Page Files
- Basic (X)HTML Structure
- Basic (X)HTML Formatting
-
IMAGES
- About Images for the Web
- Getting Images
- Choosing an Image Editor
- The Save for Web Command
- Inserting Images on a Page
- Offering Alternate Text
- Specifying Size for Speedier Viewing
- Scaling an Image
- Making Images Smaller
- Making Images Float
- Stopping Elements from Wrapping
- Adding Space around an Image
- Aligning Images
- Adding Horizontal Rules
- Adding an Icon for Your Web Site
-
Links
- Creating a Link to Another Web Page
- Creating Anchors
- Linking to a Specific Anchor
- Targeting Links to Specific Windows
- Setting the Default Target
- Creating Other Kinds of Links
- Creating Keyboard Shortcuts for Links
- Setting the Tab Order for Links
- Using Images to Label Links
- Linking Thumbnails to Images
- Dividing an Image into Clickable Regions
- Creating a Client-Side Image Map
- Style Sheet Building Blocks
- Working with Style Sheet Files
- Defining Selectors
-
Formatting with Styles
- Choosing a Font Family
- Specifying Alternate Fonts
- Creating Italics
- Applying Bold Formatting
- Setting the Font Size
- Setting the Line Height
- Setting All Font Values at Once
- Setting the Color
- Changing the Text’s Background
- Controlling Spacing
- Adding Indents
- Setting White Space Properties
- Aligning Text
- Changing the Text Case
- Using Small Caps
- Decorating Text
-
Layout with Styles
- Structuring Your Pages
- The Box Model
- Changing the Background
- Setting the Height or Width for an Element
- Setting the Margins around an Element
- Adding Padding Around an Element
- Offsetting Elements in the Natural Flow
- Positioning Elements Absolutely
- Affixing an Element to the Browser Window
- Making Elements Float
- Controlling Where Elements Float
- Positioning Elements in 3D
- Setting the Border
- Changing the Cursor
- Determining Where Overflow Should Go
- Aligning Elements Vertically
- Dynamic Effects with Styles
- Style Sheets For Handhelds
- Style Sheets for Printing
- Lists
-
Tables
- Mapping Out Your Page
- Creating a Simple Table
- Adding a Border
- Setting the Width
- Centering a Table
- Wrapping Text around a Table
- Combining Tables
- Aligning a Cell’s Contents
- Changing the Background
- Controlling the Space
- Spanning a Cell across Columns
- Spanning a Cell across Rows
- Dividing Your Table into Column Groups
- Dividing the Table into Horizontal Sections
- Choosing Which Borders to Display
- Controlling Line Breaks in a Cell
- Speeding up Table Display
-
Forms
- Creating a Form
- Processing Forms
- Sending Form Data via Email
- Organizing the Form Elements
- Creating Text Boxes
- Creating Password Boxes
- Formally Labeling Form Parts
- Creating Radio Buttons
- Creating Menus
- Creating Checkboxes
- Creating Larger Text Areas
- Allowing Visitors to Upload Files
- Creating Hidden Fields
- Creating the Submit Button
- Resetting the Form
- Using an Image to Submit Data
- Setting the Tab Order in a Form
- Adding Keyboard Shortcuts
- Disabling Form Elements
- Keeping Elements from Being Changed
-
Video, Audio, and Other Multimedia
- Of Plugins and Players
- Getting Players for Your Visitors
- Getting Multimedia Files
- Linking to Multimedia Files
- Embedding QuickTime Movies for Windows
- Embedding QuickTime Movies for Everyone besides IE
- Embedding QuickTime Movies for All
- Using JavaScript to Call a Movie
- Scaling a QuickTime Movie
- Changing the Movie’s Background Color
- Looping a QuickTime Movie
- Offering a Preview Movie
- Adding Attributes to Secondary Movies
- Offering a Sequel
- Embedding MP3 Audio on a Page
- Embedding Windows Media, Part 1
- Embedding Windows Media, Part 2
- Embedding Flash
- Embedding Google and YouTube Video
- Inserting Java Applets
- Embedding Other Multimedia Files
- Creating an Automatic Slide Show
- Scripts
- A Taste Of Javascript
- Symbols And Non-English Characters
- Testing and Debugging Web Pages
- Publishing Your Pages on the Web
-
Getting People to Visit
- About Keywords
- Explicitly Listing Keywords
- Providing a Description of Your Page
- Controlling Other Information
- Keeping Visitors Away
- Keeping Pages From Being Archived
- Creating a Site Map Manually
- Using Google Sitemaps
- Submitting Your Site to a Search Engine
- Improving Your Ranking by Getting Linked
- Writing Pages That Are Easy to Index
- Other Techniques for Publicizing Your Site
-
Syndication and Podcasting
- What a Feed Looks Like
- Getting Ready for Syndication
- Starting an RSS Feed
- Describing Your Site in the Feed
- Adding Items to a Feed
- Add an Enclosure
- Creating Podcasts for iTunes
- Validating a Feed
- Submitting a Podcast to iTunes
- Publishing your RSS Feed on Your Site
- Subscribing to an RSS Feed
- Subscribing to a Podcast with iTunes
- (X)HTML Reference
- CSS Properties and Values
- Intrinsic Events
- (X)HTML Symbols and Characters
- Hexadecimals
- (X)HTML Tools
- Colophon
- Index
Product information
- Title: HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2006
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321430847
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