HTML Web Page by Paul Mcfedries
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page by Paul McFedries C O N T E N T S Chapter 1 The Top Ten Steps to a Perfect Web Page ● Step 1: Crank Up a New Text File ● Step 2: Understand HTML Tags ● Step 3: Set Up the Basic Structure of the Page ● Step 4: Add a Snappy Title ● Step 5: Add Text and Paragraphs ● Step 6: Adding Formatting and Headings ● Step 7: Toss In a Few Links to Other Pages ● Step 8: Add Impact with Images ● Step 9: Use a Browser to See How Your Page Looks ● Step 10: Publish the Page on the Web Chapter 2 It's a Wonderful World Wide Web ● The Internet Nitty-Gritty ❍ Redefining the Internet ❍ An Overview of the Internet Services ● The Net's Wunderkind: The World Wide Web ❍ The Secret of the Web's Success ❍ Some Web Words to Surf By ● Browsing Basics, Featuring Netscape Navigator ❍ Getting Your Hands on Netscape ❍ A Tour of the Netscape Screen ❍ Navigator Navigating I: Following the Links ❍ Navigator Navigating II: Entering a URL ❍ Navigator Navigating III: Retracing Your Steps ❍ Navigator Navigating IV: Creating Bookmarks ● Browsers: The Best of the Rest ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 3 It's a Wonderful World Wide Web ● Okay, So Just What Is HTML? ● What Can You Do with HTML? ❍ You Can Format Text ❍ You Can Create Lists of Things ❍ You Can Set Up Links to Other Pages ❍ You Can Insert Images ❍ You Can Format Information in Tables ● Pages from All Walks of Web Life ❍ The Personal Touch: Personal Home Pages ❍ Hobbyists Do It with HTML ❍ Not for Bathroom Reading: Electronic Magazines ❍ Corporate Culture Hits the Web ❍ Your Tax Dollars at Work: Government Web Pages ● The Changing Face of HTML: HTML 3.0 ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 4 Laying the Foundation: The Basic Structure of a Web Page ● Getting Started ❍ Crank Out a New Text File ❍ The Edit-Save-Browse Cycle ● Tag Daze: Understanding HTML's Tags ● And Now, Some Actual HTML ● A Page by Any Other Name: Adding a Title ❍ The <TITLE>Tag ❍ Title Dos and Don'ts ● Fleshing Out Your Page with Text ● How to Do Paragraphs ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 5 From Buck-Naked to Beautiful: Dressing Up Your Page ● Sprucing Up Your Text ❍ Yer Basic Text Formatting Styles ❍ Combining Text Formats ❍ Accessorizing: Displaying Special Characters ● Sectioning Your Page with Headings ● A Few More Formatting Features ❍ Handling Preformatted Text ❍ Them's the Breaks: Using <BR> for Line Breaks ❍ Inserting Horizontal Lines ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 6 A Fistful of List Grist for Your Web Page Mill ● Putting Your Affairs in Order with Numbered Lists ● Scoring Points with Bulleted Lists ● Definition Lists ● Combining Lists Inside Lists ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 7 Making the Jump to Hyperspace: Adding Links ● The URL of Net: A Cyberspace Address Primer ● Getting Hyper: Creating Links in HTML ❍ External Links to Faraway Pages ❍ External Links to Nearby Pages ❍ Anchors Aweigh: Internal Links ● Creating an E-Mail Link ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 8 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Clicks: Working with Images ● Images: Some Semi-Important Background Info ❍ No, Images Aren't Text, But That's Okay ❍ Graphics Formats: Can't We All Just Get Along? ❍ How Do I Get Graphics? ❍ Converting Graphics to GIF Format ● The Nitty-Gritty, At Last: The <IMG> Tag ● Good Uses for Images on Your Web Page ● Aligning Text and Images ● Handling Graphically Challenged Text Browsers ● Images Can Be Links, Too ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 9 Publishing Your Page on the Web ● A Plethora of Web Publishing Possibilities ❍ Use Your Existing Internet Provider ❍ Try to Find a Free Hosting Provider ❍ Sign Up with a Commercial Hosting Provider ● A Pre-Trip Checklist ● Okay, Ship It! ❍ Setting Up the FTP Program ❍ Sending the Files Via FTP ● Getting the Word Out: Advertising Your Page ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 10 Fooling Around with the Netscape Extensions ● The Pizza Metaphor: A Warning Before You Begin ● Text Extensions ❍ The <FONT> Tag ❍ The < BASEFONT > Tag ❍ Changing the Color of Your Page Text ❍ The Dreaded <BLINK> Tag ● List Extensions ❍ Using a Different Numbering Scheme in Numbered Lists ❍ Changing the Bullet Type in Bulleted Lists ● Graphics Extensions ❍ Specifying Image Height and Width ❍ Setting the Background ● Extra Extensions ❍ Centering Paragraphs ❍ A Better Horizontal Rule ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 11 Table Talk: Adding Tables to Your Page ● What Is a Table? ● Web Woodworking: How to Build a Table ❍ The Simplest Case: A One-Row Table ❍ Adding More Rows ❍ Creating a Row of Headers ❍ Including a Caption ● Table Refinishing: More Table Tidbits ❍ Aligning Text Within Cells ❍ Spanning Text Across Multiple Rows or Columns ❍ Netscape's Table Extensions ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 12 Need Feedback? Create a Form! ● What Is a Form, Anyway? ● Creating Forms ❍ Making It Go: The Submit Button ❍ Starting Over: The Reset Button ❍ Using Text Boxes for Single-Line Text ❍ Using Text Areas for Multi-Line Text ❍ Toggling an Option On and Off with Check Boxes ❍ Multiple Choice Options: Radio Buttons ❍ Selecting From Lists ● Oh Say, Can You CGI? ❍ Ask Your Provider ❍ The Hire-a-Nerd Route ❍ Check Out the Web's CGI Resources ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 13 The Elements of Web Page Style ● Content Is King: Notes About Writing ❍ Spelling, Grammar, and Other Strangers ❍ More Tips for Righteous Writing ● The Overall Organization of Your Web Pages ❍ The One-Track Web Page: Keep Pages To a Single Topic ❍ Use Your Home Page To Tie Everything Together ❍ Use a Consistent Layout ● Organization and Layout Hints for Individual Pages ❍ Elements To Include in Each Page ❍ Make Your Readers' Lives Easier ● Guidance For Using Graphics ● Link Lessons: Keeping Your Links in the Pink ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 14 Some HTML Resources on the Web ● Graphics Goodies ❍ The Three Bs: Buttons, Bars, and Bullets ❍ Yet Another "B": Background Textures ● A Guide to HTML Style Guides ● Counter Check: Tallying Your Hits ● Mailing Lists and UseNet Newsgroups ● A List of HTML Lists ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 15 Hack to the Future: What's Ahead for HTML and the Web ● The Java Jive: A Piping Hot Mug of Browser-Based Programs ❍ What You Need for Java ❍ Some Java Examples ● VRML: Another HTML Dimension ❍ VRML Browsers ❍ Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Some VRML Worlds ● A Look at What's New in Netscape 2.0 ❍ Divide and Conquer: Frames ❍ Power On Demand: Plug-Ins ❍ Java for the Masses: JavaScript ● Thar's Gold in Them Thar Pages: Netscape Gold ● How Netscape Gold Works ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 16 The Best Free HTML Editor: HTML Writer ● Cranking Up HTML Writer ● Getting a Document Onscreen ● It's a Setup: Getting HTML Writer Ready to Go ● Creating an HTML Document with HTML Writer ❍ Inserting Document Tags ❍ Inserting Style Tags ❍ Inserting Paragraph Tags ❍ Inserting Image Tags ❍ Inserting Link Tags I: Remote Links ❍ Inserting Link Tags II: Targets ❍ Inserting List Tags ❍ Inserting Character Codes ● Taking the Document for a Test Drive ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 17 The Best Commercial HTML Editor: HotDog ● Getting Your Hands on HotDog ❍ Downloading the HotDog File ❍ Installing HotDog ❍ Installing VBRUN300.DLL ● Serving Up HotDog ● Working with Documents ● Creating an HTML Document with HotDog ● Inserting Tags Directly ● Inserting Objects ❍ Inserting an Image ❍ Inserting a Remote Link ❍ Inserting a Target ❍ Inserting a Table ❍ Inserting a List ● Inserting Character Codes ● Getting a Sneak Preview of Your Document ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 18 The Word Wide Web: Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word ● Grabbing Internet Assistant ● Dealing with Documents ● What Happens to Word ● Internet Assistant: WYSIWYG Web Weaving ❍ Adjusting the Title ❍ Need a New Paragraph? Just Press Enter ❍ Formatting Characters ❍ Working with Styles ❍ Working with Numbered Lists ❍ Working with Bulleted Lists ❍ Working with Definition Lists ❍ Inserting an Image ❍ Inserting Hypertext Links I: Remote Links ❍ Inserting Hypertext Links II: Bookmarks ❍ Constructing Tables ❍ A Few Odds and Ends ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 19 Getting Your Web Words Online with America Online ● America Online's Web Page Publishing Possibilities ● Working with My Home Page ● Adding Text, Links, and Graphics ❍ Tossing in Some Text ❍ Inserting a Link ❍ Sending a Multimedia File to AOL ❍ Adding a Multimedia File to Your Page ❍ Seeing the Changes to Your Page ● Editing My Home Page ● Making My Place Your Web Home ❍ Accessing Your AOL FTP Directory ❍ Uploading Files to Your FTP Directory ● The Least You Need to Know Chapter 20 Assorted Other Ways to Create HTML Documents ● Rapid Reviews of a Few More HTML Editors ❍ Getting the WebEdit Page Editor ❍ Professional HTML Editing with HTMLed Pro ❍ Stop the Web Presses: It's NaviPress! ❍ The Step-by-Step Web: WEB Wizard ❍ Faded Glory: HoTMetaL ❍ HTML Editors for the Mac ● Grabbing HTML from an Existing Page ● Web Pages That Create Web Pages ● Converting Existing Documents to HTML ● The Least You Need to Know Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive HTML Codes for Cool Characters Credits ©1996 Que® Corporation All rights reserved. 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