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Teach yourself the core Web development languages the fast, easy way!
Learn to work with hypertext markup language (HTML) and extensible markup language (XML) the easy way with HTML AND XML FOR BEGINNERS! This friendly guide uses a practical, learn-by-doing approach to take the mystery out of building Web pages and exchanging Web data. Get your feet wet with HTML tags by creating and publishing your first Web page, and learn to jazz up your Web pages with eye-catching special effects, multimedia, styles, interactive dynamic elements, and more. Explore easy ways to exchange data of all kinds over the Web with XML and other groundbreaking Web languages. Cut your teeth on creating style sheets for viewing XML documents in Web browsers. In no time at all, you’ll learn to code pages that dazzle site visitors. Learn all about these Web-coding essentials!
• GET STARTED WITH HTML: Dive into page-creation essentials such as formatting text, dressing up pages with images, and connecting pages with hyperlinks.
• GO BEYOND THE BASICS: Master more advanced techniques such as simplifying navigation by creating image maps, organizing pages with tables, gathering information with forms, integrating multimedia, using the latest graphical tools, and publishing your pages.
• ADD STYLE TO YOUR PAGES: Discover how to spice up your pages with styles and style sheets, and learn how to add life to your pages with dynamic styles.
• ADD INTERACTIVITY TO YOUR PAGES: Find out how to create special effects such as visual filters, transitions, event responses, and more with dynamic HTML (DHTML).
• LEVERAGE XML AND OTHER LANGUAGES: See how to use XML to create custom tags that can describe any kind of Web information, find out how to create Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) style sheets, and discover how to use extensible HTML (XHTML).
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | xvi |
| PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH HTML | |
| CHAPTER 1 HTML Essentials | 2 |
| What Is HTML? | 3 |
| Your Pen Pal, the Web Browser | 3 |
| Putting on Your HTML X-Ray Glasses | 4 |
| Why Do I Need to Know HTML? | 5 |
| Inside a Web Page | 6 |
| The Brains of a Web Page | 8 |
| Jesse "The Body" Ventura and HTML | 8 |
| Common HTML Tags and Attributes | 9 |
| Writing Your First Web Page in HTML | 11 |
| Honor Thyself | 12 |
| Adding a Splash of Color | 12 |
| Tell Me Something About Yourself | 13 |
| Listing Your Activities | 14 |
| The Finished Page | 15 |
| Publishing Your First Web Page | 16 |
| Conclusion | 21 |
| CHAPTER 2 Formatting Text | 22 |
| Organizing Text | 23 |
| Text and the Head of a Page | 23 |
| A Body Full of Text | 24 |
| Basic Text Formatting: The Look or the Meaning? | 26 |
| Content-Based Text Formatting | 28 |
| Physical Text Formatting | 29 |
| VH-1 and The List | 31 |
| Unordered Lists | 31 |
| Ordered Lists | 32 |
| Definition Lists | 34 |
| One Last Comment | 35 |
| Conclusion | 36 |
| CHAPTER 3 Dressing Up Pages with Images | 37 |
| The Scoop on Images | 37 |
| Working with Images | 39 |
| Displaying Inline Images | 40 |
| Formatting Images | 41 |
| Tweaking the Size of Images | 42 |
| Giving Images Room to Breathe | 43 |
| Building Walls Around Images | 44 |
| Aligning Images | 44 |
| Linking to External Images | 46 |
| Using Background Images | 48 |
| Using Animated Images | 50 |
| Conclusion | 50 |
| CHAPTER 4 Connecting Pages with Hyperlinks | 51 |
| What Is a Hyperlink? | 52 |
| Understanding URLs | 53 |
| Host Names and URLs | 54 |
| Dissecting a URL | 54 |
| URLs and Web Resources | 55 |
| Working with the <a> Tag | 56 |
| Linking to Web Pages | 57 |
| Linking to Other Resources | 57 |
| Practical Linking with the <a> Tag | 58 |
| Anchor Hyperlinks | 59 |
| Conclusion | 62 |
| PART 2 BEYOND THE BASICS | |
| CHAPTER 5 Visual Navigation with Image Maps | 64 |
| Image Map Basics | 64 |
| Two Approaches to Image Maps | 66 |
| Let the Server Do the Work | 67 |
| Maybe the Client Needs Some Responsibility | 67 |
| Using Image Map Development Tools | 69 |
| Coding Image Maps by Hand | 71 |
| Creating the Map | 71 |
| Associating the Map with an Image | 74 |
| Constructing a Practical Image Map | 74 |
| Conclusion | 77 |
| CHAPTER 6 Organizing Pages with Tables | 78 |
| Table Basics | 79 |
| Getting to Know the Table Tags | 81 |
| Drawing Borders Around Tables | 82 |
| Heading Up Your Tables | 83 |
| Spanning Cells | 84 |
| Setting the Size of Tables | 84 |
| Digging Deeper into Table Formatting | 86 |
| Aligning Tables | 86 |
| Giving Tables Some Space | 88 |
| Dressing Up Tables with Colors and Images | 90 |
| Revisiting Borders | 93 |
| Using Tables for Page Layout | 94 |
| Working Out the Design | 94 |
| Putting the Table Together | 95 |
| Adding the Content | 96 |
| Conclusion | 97 |
| CHAPTER 7 Gathering Information with Forms | 98 |
| Understanding Forms | 98 |
| Processing Forms with Scripts | 102 |
| Using Scripts | 102 |
| Finding Scripts | 103 |
| Borrowing Scripts | 104 |
| Getting to Know Form Controls | 104 |
| The Text Box and Password Box Controls | 105 |
| The Text Area Control | 106 |
| The Check Box Control | 107 |
| The Radio Button Control | 108 |
| The Menu Control | 109 |
| The Button Controls | 111 |
| Creating Forms | 112 |
| Establishing the Forms Action | 112 |
| Laying Out the Controls | 113 |
| The Complete Form | 115 |
| Testing the Form | 116 |
| Advanced Form Tips and Tricks | 118 |
| Creating Read-Only Controls | 118 |
| Hiding Controls | 119 |
| Organizing Controls into Field Sets | 119 |
| Setting the Tab Order of Controls | 120 |
| Providing Keyboard Shortcuts | 121 |
| Conclusion | 122 |
| CHAPTER 8 Integrating Multimedia with Your Web Pages | 123 |
| Understanding Plug-ins and Helper Applications | 124 |
| Working with Sound | 126 |
| Creating Your Own Sounds | 127 |
| Finding Sounds | 128 |
| Adding Sounds to Your Pages | 129 |
| Working with Video | 135 |
| Creating Your Own Videos | 135 |
| Finding Videos | 136 |
| Adding Videos to Your Pages | 136 |
| Tinkering with Streaming Media | 140 |
| Preparing Multimedia Files for Streaming | 140 |
| Linking to Streaming Multimedia Files | 144 |
| Other Types of Multimedia | 145 |
| Conclusion | 146 |
| CHAPTER 9 Graphical Tools and HTML | 147 |
| Why Use a Graphical Tool? | 148 |
| Getting Acquainted with Graphical Tools | 148 |
| Image Editing Tools | 149 |
| Image Map Tools | 152 |
| Web Page Design Tools | 153 |
| HTML Editors | 155 |
| Working with HTML in FrontPage | 156 |
| Using Different Views | 157 |
| Creating Tables | 160 |
| Creating Image Maps | 162 |
| Publishing Your Pages | 162 |
| Conclusion | 162 |
| CHAPTER 10 Publishing Pages on the Web | 163 |
| Web Publishing Basics | 163 |
| Finding a Good Home for Your Web Pages | 166 |
| Hosting Your Own Web Site | 167 |
| Paying for a Web Hosting Service | 167 |
| Hosting with Your Internet Account | 169 |
| Using a Free Web Hosting Service | 169 |
| Foregoing Web Hosting Entirely | 170 |
| Obtaining a Domain Name | 170 |
| Selecting Web Publishing Software | 172 |
| Conclusion | 173 |
| PART 3 ADDING STYLE TO YOUR PAGES | |
| CHAPTER 11 Style Sheet Basics | 176 |
| What Are Style Sheets? | 176 |
| The Essentials of Style | 180 |
| Applying Styles to Web Pages | 182 |
| Internal Style Sheets | 182 |
| External Style Sheets | 183 |
| Classes of Styles | 184 |
| Styling Individual Tags | 185 |
| Local Styles | 186 |
| Linking with Style | 186 |
| Styles and Custom Style Tags | 188 |
| Creating Custom Style Tags | 189 |
| Putting Custom Style Tags to Work | 190 |
| Conclusion | 191 |
| CHAPTER 12 Using Styles to Format Text | 192 |
| Assessing Cascading Style Sheets Text Styles | 192 |
| Working with Font Styles | 193 |
| Setting Individual Font Properties | 193 |
| Setting Font Properties as a Group | 195 |
| Putting the Font Styles Together | 196 |
| Dressing Up Text with Style | 197 |
| Altering the Spacing of Text | 200 |
| Using Styles for Text Alignment | 202 |
| Aligning Text | 202 |
| Adjusting the Margins | 203 |
| Putting the Text Alignment Styles Together | 204 |
| Digging Into the Bag of Style Tricks | 205 |
| Conclusion | 207 |
| CHAPTER 13 Using Styles for Web Page Positioning | 209 |
| The Basics of Positioning with Style | 209 |
| Using Relative and Absolute Positioning | 213 |
| Managing Overlapping Elements | 214 |
| Tweaking the Appearance of Elements | 216 |
| Changing the Size of Elements | 216 |
| Showing and Hiding Elements | 218 |
| Giving Your Elements a Border | 218 |
| Controlling Space on a Page | 220 |
| Controlling the Flow of Text | 223 |
| Flowing Text Around Other Elements | 223 |
| Stopping the Flow of Text | 224 |
| Thy Text Overfloweth | 225 |
| A Complete Positional Style Example | 225 |
| Conclusion | 227 |
| PART 4 ADDING INTERACTIVITY TO YOUR PAGES | |
| CHAPTER 14 Dynamic HTML | 230 |
| DHTML Basics | 230 |
| The Least You Need to Know About Scripts | 231 |
| Scripting Languages | 231 |
| Using Scripts in Web Pages | 232 |
| Responding to Events | 232 |
| Getting to Know the Document Object Model | 233 |
| Working with Dynamic Styles | 234 |
| Manipulating Dynamic Content | 237 |
| Fun with Dynamic Positioning | 240 |
| Getting Practical with DHTML | 241 |
| Displaying an Animated Ad Banner | 242 |
| Displaying Random Quotes | 244 |
| Conclusion | 247 |
| CHAPTER 15 Creating Special Effects | 248 |
| The Basics of Special Effects | 248 |
| Working with Visual Filters | 249 |
| The Shadow and Drop Shadow Filters | 250 |
| The Emboss and Engrave Filters | 252 |
| The Glow Filter | 253 |
| The Blur Filter | 254 |
| The Basic Image Filter | 255 |
| Animating Content Changes with Transitions | 257 |
| The RandomDissolve Transition | 259 |
| The Fade Transition | 259 |
| The Strips Transition | 260 |
| The Wheel Transition | 261 |
| The Barn Transition | 261 |
| The Blinds Transition | 262 |
| The Checker Board Transition | 263 |
| The Gradient Wipe Transition | 264 |
| The Radial Wipe Transition | 264 |
| Putting on a Slide Show | 266 |
| Creating Interpage Transitions | 267 |
| Conclusion | 270 |
| CHAPTER 16 Assessing the Capabilities of a Client | 271 |
| What are Client Capabilities? | 271 |
| Client Capabilities and Internet Explorer | 273 |
| Obtaining Client Capabilities | 274 |
| Reacting to Client Capabilities | 276 |
| Conclusion | 280 |
| PART 5 LEVERAGING XML | |
| CHAPTER 17 Understanding XML | 282 |
| What is XML? | 282 |
| XML and HTML | 284 |
| Getting to Know XML | 285 |
| Understanding Elements and Tags | 290 |
| Referencing Entities | 290 |
| Using Comments | 291 |
| Using Processing Instructions | 292 |
| Declaring the Document Type | 293 |
| Modeling XML Data | 294 |
| Working with DTDs | 295 |
| Working with XML Schema | 296 |
| The Practical Side of XML | 298 |
| Conclusion | 299 |
| CHAPTER 18 Styling XML with XSL | 300 |
| Style Sheets and XML | 301 |
| Understanding XSL | 302 |
| Applying XSL to XML Documents | 302 |
| Peeking Inside a Style Sheet | 303 |
| Drilling for Data with Patterns | 304 |
| Transforming Information with Templates | 305 |
| Constructing Your Own XSL Style Sheet | 308 |
| Conclusion | 313 |
| CHAPTER 19 XHTML: XML Meets HTML | 314 |
| The Significance of XHTML | 315 |
| The Problem with HTML | 315 |
| The XHTML Solution | 315 |
| The Leap from HTML to XHTML | 316 |
| The Need to Accept XHTML | 317 |
| The Three XHTML DTDs | 318 |
| Document Validation Requirements | 319 |
| Declaring an XHTML DTD and Namespace | 319 |
| Validating an XHTML Document | 320 |
| Creating an XHTML Document | 321 |
| Converting to XHTML | 323 |
| XHTML Conversion Guidelines | 323 |
| Converting an HTML Document to XHTML | 324 |
| An Alternative HTML Conversion Option | 328 |
| Conclusion | 328 |
| PART 6 APPENDIXES | |
| APPENDIX A HTML Quick Reference | 332 |
| Structural Tags | 332 |
| Text Tags | 333 |
| List Tags | 333 |
| Table Tags | 334 |
| Form Tags | 334 |
| Miscellaneous Tags | 335 |
| APPENDIX B HTML Resources on the Web | 336 |
| Microsofts Web Workshop | 336 |
| Webmonkey | 336 |
| HTML Goodies | 336 |
| HTML Help | 337 |
| The HTML Writers Guild | 337 |
| World Wide Web Consortium | 337 |
| Network Solutions | 337 |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | 337 |
| APPENDIX C Using Custom Colors | 338 |
| INDEX | 340 |
