Description:

Take charge of your Web code—faster, smarter, better!

Now you can code your own Web pages—and produce impressive features and effects—faster, smarter, and better. Dive in! This friendly, high-energy guide makes it easy to teach yourself exactly what you need. Use the quick lists, numbered steps, and helpful examples to accelerate your productivity—and move on to doing the cool things you want to do!

• Do real things with HTML and XML right now
• Code and post your first Web page
• Format text and images and add hyperlinks
•Incorporate sound and video
• Use XML to organize and exchange all kinds of data
• Get richer page formatting and control with style sheets
• Create interactive effects with Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Prepare for the future—eXtensible HTML (XHTML)

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
PART I:  GETTING STARTED WITH HTML
This part gets you started by introducing you to the HTML language and why it is such an important part of Web page creation. The chapters in this part provide a base of HTML knowledge to build on throughout the book.
CHAPTER 1:  An Introduction to HTML, DHTML, and XML	3
What Is HTML?	4
The Significance of HTML	6
What Is DHTML?	8
What Is XML?	10
Comparing XML and HTML	11
CHAPTER 2:  Your First HTML Web Page	15
Inside a Web Page	16
Common HTML Tags and Attributes	19
Writing Your First Web Page in HTML	22
Taking a Peek at the Finished Page	26
Publishing Your First Web Page	28
CHAPTER 3:  Dressing Up Text	35
Organizing Text	35
Basic Text Formatting: The Look or the Meaning?	40
Working with Lists	45
One Last Comment	50
CHAPTER 4:  Decorating Pages with Images	53
The Whole Picture on Images	53
Working with Images	55
Displaying Inline Images	56
Formatting Images	57
Linking to External Images	64
Using Background Images	65
Using Animated Images	67
CHAPTER 5:  Connecting Pages with Hyperlinks	69
What Is a Hyperlink?	70
Understanding URLs	71
Working with the <a> Tag	75
PART II:  BEYOND THE BASICS
This part digs deeper into HTML by guiding you through topics such as the use of image maps to provide visual navigation to your Web pages, the use of tables, and the importance of graphical design tools. It also shows you how to publish Web pages online and how to interact with the user with forms. The chapters in this part provide you with the knowledge to take your Web pages to a whole new level.
CHAPTER 6:  Visual Navigation with Image Maps	85
Image Map Basics	86
Client-Side vs. Server-Side Image Maps	87
Using Image Map Development Tools	89
Coding Image Maps by Hand	91
Constructing a Practical Image Map	94
CHAPTER 7:  Organizing Pages with Tables< Brand Slider