Table Of Contents:
PREFACE xvii

Chapter 1 An HTML Overview 1(26)

What HTML Isn't 2(1)

What's in a Name 2(2)

Browsers 4(2)

What Is a URL? 6(2)

Protocol 6(1)

Domain 6(2)

Path and Filename 8(1)

HTML Terminology 8(4)

Tags 8(1)

Attributes 9(1)

Containers 9(2)

HTML Command Format 11(1)

Browsers and HTML 12(5)

Netscape 12(1)

Internet Explorer 13(1)

NCSA Mosaic 14(1)

Lynx 15(1)

Netscape for Macintosh 16(1)

Cyberdog 17(1)

Necessary Tools 17(3)

ASCII Editor 17(1)

HTML Viewer 18(1)

ISP (Internet Service Provider) 19(1)

Nice-to-Have Tools 20(4)

HTML Editor 20(3)

HTML Text-File Converters 23(1)

HTML Verifiers 24(1)

Places to Get Neat Stuff on the Net 24(3)

Browsers 24(1)

HTML Editors 25(1)

Conversion Programs 25(1)

HTML Verifiers 25(1)

Additional Search Sites 26(1)

Chapter 2 Your First Web Page 27(24)

Types of Markup Tags Used in HTML 28(6)

Empty Tags 28(1)

[BR] 28(1)

[HR] 29(1)

[P] 30(4)

Containers 34(1)

First Containers 34(13)

[HTML] 34(1)

[HEAD] 34(1)

[TITLE] 35(1)

[BODY] 36(1)

BGCOLOR 37(1)

BACKGROUND 37(2)

BGPROPERTIES 39(1)

TEXT 39(1)

ALINK, LINK, VLINK 40(1)

LEFTMARGIN, TOPMARGIN 41(1)

A Few Considerations 41(1)

Comments 42(1)

Headings 42(4)

Paragraphs 46(1)

Exercises 47(4)

Chapter 3 Let's Be a Little More Creative 51(12)

Why Is Hypertext Hyper? 52(1)

The Anchor Tag, [A]...[/A] 53(7)

Format of an Anchor 53(1)

Target Anchors 53(2)

Intrapage Source Anchors 55(1)

HREF 55(2)

Intrasystem Source Anchors 57(1)

Absolute Path Names 58(1)

Relative Path Names 59(1)

Relative versus Absolute Path Names 59(1)

One-Way Streets 60(1)

The "Click Here" Faux Pas 61(1)

Exercises 61(2)

Chapter 4 Bringing Order to the Chaos 63(24)

Plain-Text Lists 64(1)

Ordered Lists: [OL] 64(6)

START 67(2)

TYPE Attribute 69(1)

[LI] 70(4)

TYPE 71(1)

VALUE Attribute 72(2)

Unordered, or Bulleted, Lists: [UL] 74(2)

[LI] in Unordered Lists 75(1)

Lists of Lists (Nesting) 76(6)

Combining Ordered and Unordered Lists 76(1)

Nesting Unordered Lists 77(2)

Nesting Ordered Lists 79(2)

Readability 81(1)

Definition Lists 82(2)

[DL] 83(1)

[DT] 83(1)

[DD] 84(1)

Obsolete List Forms 84(1)

Menu Lists 84(1)

Directory Lists 84(1)

Exercises 85(2)

Chapter 5 Making Things a Little Different 87(42)

Styles 88(14)

Physical Styles 88(1)

Boldface: [B] 88(1)

Italics: [I] 88(1)

Monospaced Text: [TT], [CODE], [KBD] 88(1)

Underlining: [U] 89(1)

Big Text: [BIG] 90(1)

Small Text: [SMALL] 91(1)

Subscripts and Superscripts: [SUB], [SUP] 92(1)

Strike-Through Text: [STRIKE] 93(1)

Blinking Text: [BLINK] 94(1)

Logical Styles 95(1)

Strongly Emphasized Text: [STRONG] 95(1)

Emphasized Text: [EM] 96(1)

Computer Code: [CODE] 97(1)

Citations: [CITE] 98(1)

Definitions: [DFN] 98(2)

Variable Values: [VAR] 100(1)

Block Quotes: [BLOCKQUOTE] 100(1)

Addresses: [ADDRESS] 101(1)

Special Font Handling 102(8)

Changing the Document's Font: [BASEFONT] 103(3)

Changing the Font for a Block of Text: [FONT] 106(1)

COLOR 107(1)

SIZE 107(1)

FACE Attribute 108(2)

Turning Off Formatting 110(4)

[PRE] 110(3)

Deprecated Tags: [LISTING], [XMP] 113(1)

Stopping the Tagging: [PLAINTEXT] 113(1)

Lines on the Page: [HR] 114(5)

SIZE 115(1)

WIDTH 116(1)

ALIGN 117(1)

NOSHADE 118(1)

Special Characters 119(3)

Line Breaks 122(5)

[BR] 122(1)

[NOBR] 123(3)

[WBR] 126(1)

Exercises 127(2)

Chapter 6 Tables and Table Issues 129(28)

What's in a Table 130(1)

Table-Building Tags 131(24)

[TABLE] 132(1)

ALIGN 133(1)

BGCOLOR 134(1)

BORDER 134(2)

CELLPADDING 136(1)

CELLSPACING 136(2)

HSPACE 138(1)

VSPACE 138(1)

WIDTH 139(1)

VALIGN 140(1)

Table Rows: [TR] 140(1)

ALIGN 141(1)

BGCOLOR 141(1)

BORDERCOLOR 142(1)

VALIGN 142(1)

Table Data and Table Headers: [TD], [TH] 143(1)

ALIGN 144(1)

BGCOLOR 144(1)

Border Colors 144(1)

VALIGN 144(2)

WIDTH 146(3)

COLSPAN 149(1)

ROWSPAN 150(2)

Long Lines: [NOWRAP] 152(1)

[CAPTION] 153(1)

ALIGN and VALIGN 153(2)

Exercises 155(2)

Chapter 7 Images on the Page 157(40)

What's an Image? 158(1)

To Image or Not to Image 158(1)

Image Formats 159(2)

GIF 159(1)

JPEG 160(1)

PNG 160(1)

PDF 160(1)

TIFF 160(1)

BMP 161(1)

PCX 161(1)

Image Sizes 161(3)

Bits-per-Pixel 162(1)

Graphics Tips 162(2)

[IMG] 164(22)

SRC 164(3)

ALT 167(2)

LOWSRC 169(2)

Sizing the Image: HEIGHT and WIDTH 171(3)

ALIGN 174(1)

TOP 174(1)

MIDDLE 174(1)

BOTTOM or BASELINE 175(1)

ABSBOTTOM 175(1)

TEXTTOP 176(1)

ABSMIDDLE 176(1)

LEFT 177(2)

RIGHT 179(1)

CENTER? 179(1)

Centering an Image: [CENTER] or [P] with ALIGN=CENTER 180(1)

BORDER and Image Links 181(2)

VSPACE and HSPACE 183(2)

Special Video Options 185(1)

DYNSRC 185(1)

CONTROLS 186(1)

LOOP 186(1)

START 186(1)

Image Maps 186(9)

Server-Side Mapping 187(1)

Server-Side Image; Client Duties: ISMAP 188(1)

Server-Side Image; Server Duties 188(2)

Client-Side Mapping 190(1)

USEMAP 191(1)

[MAP] 192(1)

[AREA] 192(1)

SHAPE 192(1)

COORDS 192(1)

HREF 193(1)

NOHREF 193(1)

Making It Easy 193(1)

Other Considerations 193(2)

Exercises 195(2)

Chapter 8 Multimedia 197(12)

What Is Multimedia? 198(1)

Considerations When Using Multimedia 198(1)

Adding Sound 198(4)

Types of Sound Files 199(1)

Mu-law (mu-law) 199(1)

RIFF WAVE 200(1)

AIFF and AIFC 200(1)

MPEG Audio 200(1)

Other Formats 200(1)

Which Format to Use? 201(1)

Ethical Questions 201(1)

Adding Video 202(2)

MPEG Video 202(1)

QuickTime 203(1)

Video for Windows (VfW) 203(1)

Streaming Audio/Video 203(1)

Applets for Multimedia 204(1)

Linking Across the Web 204(3)

To Link or to Copy 204(1)

Linking Considerations 205(1)

Domain Name or IP Address 205(1)

Paths to Files 206(1)

Sample URLs 206(1)

Exercises 207(2)

Chapter 9 Frames 209(28)

Considerations When Using Frames 210(5)

Formatting Frames 215(14)

[FRAMESET] 216(1)

ROWS and COLS 216(1)

Nested [FRAMESET] Containers 217(4)

[FRAME] 221(1)

SRC 221(2)

NAME 223(3)

SCROLLING 226(2)

NORESIZE 228(1)

MARGINHEIGHT and MARGINWIDTH 228(1)

Help for the Frameless: [NOFRAMES] 229(3)

TARGET for Frames or Windows 232(3)

Special Targets 234(1)

_blank 234(1)

_self 234(1)

_parent 234(1)

_top 235(1)

Recommendations 235(1)

Exercises 235(2)

Chapter 10 Forms and CGI 237(48)

How Forms Work 238(1)

A Simple Example Form 238(1)

[FORM] 239(6)

ACTION 240(1)

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 240(1)

Electronic Mail 240(2)

METHOD 242(1)

GET 242(1)

POST 243(1)

GET versus POST Considerations 243(1)

ENCTYPE 244(1)

[INPUT] 245(16)

NAME 245(1)

TYPE=TEXT 246(1)

SIZE 247(1)

MAXLENGTH 247(1)

VALUE 248(1)

Hidden Input: TYPE=PASSWORD 249(1)

TYPE=CHECKBOX 249(3)

TYPE=RADIO 252(2)

Local Action Buttons 254(1)

TYPE=RESET 254(2)

TYPE=SUBMIT 256(2)

Graphical Buttons 258(3)

Hidden Data Fields: TYPE=HIDDEN 261(1)

[TEXTAREA] 261(3)

ROWS and COLS 262(1)

WRAP 263(1)

WRAP=VIRTUAL 263(1)

WRAP=PHYSICAL 263(1)

WRAP=OFF 264(1)

[SELECT] 264(3)

NAME 265(1)

SIZE 265(1)

MULTIPLE 266(1)

[OPTION] 267(1)

VALUE 267(1)

SELECTED 267(1)

Introducing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 268(10)

How CGI Works 268(4)

Header Information 272(1)

Content-type 272(1)

Location 272(5)

Pragma: or Expires 277(1)

Decoding the Response 277(1)

A Sample Application 278(5)

Exercises 283(2)

Chapter 11 Other Interesting Features 285(34)

Searchable Documents: [ISINDEX] 286(9)

The Calling Document 286(1)

The Search Page 287(1)

The Success Page 288(1)

The "Miss" Page 289(1)

The Search Script 290(1)

Initial Search Page 291(2)

The "Miss" Page 293(1)

The Success Page 294(1)

The Data File 294(1)

[BASE] 295(1)

HREF 296(1)

TARGET 296(1)

Dynamic Documents 296(1)

Document Relationships 297(2)

[A] 297(1)

[LINK] 297(1)

CLASS 298(1)

HREF 298(1)

TITLE 298(1)

REL and REV 298(1)

[META] 299(9)

HTTP-EQUIV 300(1)

EXPIRES 300(1)

CONTENT-TYPE 300(1)

CONTENT-LANGUAGE 301(1)

WINDOW-TARGET 301(1)

PICS-LABEL 301(1)

REFRESH 301(5)

Guidelines for REFRESH 306(1)

URL 307(1)

NAME 307(1)

DESCRIPTION 307(1)

KEYWORDS 307(1)

AUTHOR 308(1)

COPYRIGHT 308(1)

Other Attribute Values 308(1)

Custom Bullets 308(3)

Multicolumn Pages 311(3)

Sidebars 314(2)

Exercises 316(3)

Chapter 12 What Is Java? 319(18)

Java Terminology 320(2)

Java and the World Wide Web 322(1)

History of Java 322(1)

The Three (Two) Flavors of Java 323(2)

Java--The Complete Language 324(1)

Java Applets--The Subset of Java 324(1)

JavaScript 325(1)

Object-Orientation Concepts 325(3)

Class 325(1)

Object Instance 326(1)

Abstraction 326(1)

Encapsulation 326(1)

Inheritance 326(1)

Polymorphism 327(1)

A Java Applet Example 328(2)

[APPLET] 330(4)

ALIGN 332(1)

ALT 332(1)

CODE 332(1)

CODEBASE 333(1)

HEIGHT 333(1)

WIDTH 334(1)

NAME 334(1)

HSPACE 334(1)

VSPACE 334(1)

[PARAM] 334(1)

NAME 335(1)

VALUE 335(1)

Platform Independence 335(1)

The Future of Java 336(1)

Exercises 336(1)

Chapter 13 Looking at Java 337(20)

What Applets Can Do for You 338(4)

Dynamic Content 338(1)

Real Interactivity 338(1)

Universal Consistency 339(1)

Adding Sound 340(1)

Animation and Graphics 340(1)

From the Simple to the Complex 341(1)

Education 341(1)

Commercial Applications 341(1)

Restrictions 342(1)

Sample Applets 342(11)

Clocks 342(3)

Animation 345(4)

Text Applets 349(3)

Utility Applets 352(1)

Viewing Applets 353(2)

Netscape 353(1)

Internet Explorer 353(1)

HotJava 354(1)

Applet Viewers 355(1)

Copyright Issues 355(1)

Exercises 356(1)

Chapter 14 Adding Applets to Your Page 357(14)

Where to Find Applets 358(1)

Sun Microsystems 358(1)

Gamelan 358(1)

Java Boutique 358(1)

Applet Orchard 358(1)

JARS 359(1)

Search Engines 359(1)

Source versus Executable Code for Applets 359(1)

[PARAMETERS] 360(2)

Changing an Applet 362(4)

Modifying the Source Code 362(3)

Compiling the Source Code 365(1)

Testing the Applet 365(1)

Debugging the Applet 366(1)

Applet Development Tools 366(2)

The JDK (Java Development Kit) 367(1)

Symantec's Java Cafe 367(1)

Microsoft's J++ 367(1)

Other Applet Environments 368(1)

Designing with Applets 368(1)

Exercises 368(3)
Appendix A HTML Color Names Chart 371(4)
Appendix B HTML Tag List 375(12)
Appendix C FTP 387(8)
Appendix D Style Guide 395(8)
General Guidelines 395(3)
Looking at the HEAD 398(1)
In the BODY 398(2)
Language and Writing 400(1)
Some Style-Guide URLs 401(2)
Appendix E COUGAR, HTML 4.0 Specifications 403(6)
Deprecated Tags 403(1)
Obsolete Tags 404(1)
New Tags 404(1)
Table Changes 405(1)
Forms Changes 406(1)
Style Sheets 406(3)
Glossary 409(10)
Index 419