Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day

Laura Lemay is the world's most popular author on HTML and web development topics. In addition to the best-selling Teach Yourself Web Publishing books, and she is also co-author of Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days and Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.   Rafe Colburn is a programmer and author working in North Carolina. He is the author of Special Edition Using SQL and Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours and co-author of Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started

Lesson 1: Navigating the World Wide Web

    How the World Wide Web Works

        The Web Is a Hypertext Information System

        The Web Is Graphical and Easy to Navigate

        The Web Is Cross-Platform

        The Web Is Distributed

        The Web Is Dynamic

        The Web Is Interactive

    Web Browsers

        What the Browser Does

        An Overview of Some Popular Browsers

        Using the Browser to Access Other Services

    Web Servers

    Uniform Resource Locators

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 2: Preparing to Publish on the Web

    Anatomy of a Website

    What Do You Want to Do on the Web?

    Setting Your Goals

    Breaking Up Your Content into Main Topics

    Ideas for Organization and Navigation

        Hierarchies

        Linear

        Linear with Alternatives

        Combination of Linear and Hierarchical

        Web

    Storyboarding Your Website

        What’s Storyboarding and Why Do I Need It?

        Hints for Storyboarding

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 3: Introducing HTML and XHTML

    What HTML Is–And What It Isn’t

        HTML Describes the Structure of a Page

        HTML Does Not Describe Page Layout

        Why It Works This Way

        How Markup Works

        A Brief History of HTML Tags

    The Current Standard: XHTML 1.0

    What HTML Files Look Like

        Text Formatting and HTML

    Using Cascading Style Sheets

        Including Styles in Tags

    Programs to Help You Write HTML

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 4: Learning the Basics of HTML

    Structuring Your HTML

        The Tag

        The Tag

        The Tag

    The Title

    Headings

    Paragraphs

    Lists, Lists, and More Lists

        List Tags

        Numbered Lists

        Customizing Ordered Lists

        Unordered Lists

        Customizing Unordered Lists

        Glossary Lists

        Nesting Lists

    Comments

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Part II: Creating Simple Web Pages

Lesson 5: Adding Links to Your Web Pages

    Creating Links

        The Link Tag–

    Linking Local Pages Using Relative and Absolute Pathnames

        Absolute Pathnames

        Using Relative or Absolute Pathnames?

    Links to Other Documents on the Web

    Linking to Specific Places Within Documents

        Creating Links and Anchors

        Linking to Anchors in the Same Document

    Anatomy of a URL

        Parts of URLs

        Special Characters in URLs

        HTML 4.01 and the Tag

    Kinds of URLs

        HTTP

        Anonymous FTP

        Non-anonymous FTP

        Mailto

        Usenet Newsgroups

        File

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 6: Formatting Text with HTML and CSS

    Character-Level Elements

        Logical Styles

        Physical Styles

    Character Formatting Using CSS

        The Text Decoration Property

        Font Properties

    Preformatted Text

    Horizontal Rules

        Attributes of the Tag

    Line Break

    Addresses

    Quotations

    Special Characters

        Character Entities for Special Characters

        Character Entities for Reserved Characters

    Text Alignment

        Aligning Individual Elements

        Aligning Blocks of Elements

    Fonts and Font Sizes

        Changing the Font Size

        Changing the Font Face

        Modifying Fonts Using CSS

    and

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 7: Adding Images, Color, and Backgrounds

    Images on the Web

    Image Formats

        GIF

        JPEG

        PNG

    Inline Images in HTML: The Tag

        Adding Alternative Text to Images

    Images and Text

        Text and Image Alignment

        Wrapping Text Next to Images

        Adjusting the Space Around Images

    Images and Links

    What Is an Imagemap?

    Client-Side Imagemaps

        Imagemaps and Text-Only Browsers

    Creating Client-Side Imagemaps

        Getting an Image

        Determining Your Coordinates

        The and Tags

        The usemap Attribute

    Other Neat Tricks with Images

        Image Dimensions and Scaling

        More About Image Borders

    Using Color

        Specifying Colors

        Changing Background Color of a Page

        Changing Text Colors

        Spot Color

        Specifying Colors with CSS

        Color-Related Properties

    Image Backgrounds

    Image Etiquette

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Part III: Doing More with HTML and XHTML

Lesson 8: Building Tables

    Creating Tables

    Table Parts

        The Element

        The Table Summary

        Rows and Cells

        Empty Cells

        Captions

    Sizing Tables, Borders, and Cells

        Setting Table Widths

        Changing Table Borders

        Cell Padding

        Cell Spacing

        Column Widths

        Setting Breaks in Text

    Table and Cell Color and Alignment

        Changing Table and Cell Background Colors

        Changing Border Colors

    Aligning Your Table Content

        Table Alignment

        Cell Alignment

        Caption Alignment

    Spanning Multiple Rows or Columns

    More Advanced Table Enhancements

        Grouping and Aligning Columns

        Grouping and Aligning Rows

        The frame and rules Attributes

    Other Table Elements and Attributes

    How Tables Are Used

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 9: Creating Layouts with CSS

    Including Style Sheets in a Page

        Creating Page-Level Styles

        Creating Sitewide Style Sheets

    Selectors

        Contextual Selectors

        Classes and IDs

    Units of Measure

    Box Properties

        Controlling Size

        Borders

        Margins and Padding

        Float

    CSS Positioning

        Relative Positioning

        Absolute Positioning

        Controlling Stacking

    Modifying the Appearance of Tables

    The Tag

    Links

    Creating Layouts with Multiple Columns

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 10: Designing Forms

    Understanding Form and Function

    Using the Tag

    Creating Form Controls with the Tag

        Creating Text Controls

        Creating Password Controls

        Creating Submit Buttons

        Creating Reset Buttons

        Creating Check Box Controls

        Creating Radio Buttons

        Using Images As Submit Buttons

        Creating Generic Buttons

        Hidden Form Fields

        The File Upload Control

    Using Other Form Controls

        Using the button Element

        Creating Large Text-Entry Fields with textarea

        Creating Menus with select and option

    Adding Extras

        Displaying Control label Elements

        Grouping Controls with fieldset and legend

        Changing the Default Form Navigation

        Using Access Keys

        Creating disabled and readonly Controls

    Applying Cascading Style Sheet Properties to Forms

    Planning Your Forms

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Lesson 11: Integrating Multimedia: Sound, Video, and More

    Understanding How to Present Sound and Video

    The Old Standby: Linking

    Embedding Sound and Video

        Using the Element

        Using the         Combining and         Embedding Flash Movies

        Embedding RealAudio and RealVideo

        Multimedia Techniques

    Sound and Video File Types

    Of Plug-Ins and Players

        Windows Media Player

        Macromedia Flash

        Macromedia Shockwave

        Apple QuickTime

        RealPlayer

        WinAmp

    Summary

    Workshop

        Q&A

        Quiz

        Quiz Answers

        Exercises

Part IV: JavaScript and Dynamic HTML

Lesson 12: Introducing JavaScript

    Introducing JavaScript

        Why Would You Want to Use JavaScript?

    The