Synopses & Reviews
HTML Complete, Third Edition, is a one-of-a-kind computer book—valuable both for its broad content and its low price. This completely updated book contains the essentials you need to know about creating and modifying web pages with HTML and XHTML.
With HTML Complete, Third Edition, you'll learn all about web publishing--working with HTML and XHTML, designing pages, and using page components--and you’ll quickly take advantage of all that HTML and XHTML have to offer. Get up to speed with HTML and basic design, learn professional web layout and typography skills, and then move on to advanced web languages such as JavaScript, DHTML, and XML. As you become more proficient with HTML/XHTML, you’ll find the reference appendices invaluable daily tools. These in-depth references quickly put the latest HTML/XHTML tags, properties, and attributes at your fingertips, along with the specifications for Cascading Style Sheets and XHTML Basic—the web language used with handheld devices.
HTML Complete, Third Edition, introduces you to the work of some of Sybex’s finest authors, so you’ll know where to go to learn even more about what’s possible in web publishing.
Getting Started
- Understanding web pages, HTML, and XHTML
- Designing and navigating websites
- Making your site accessible and usable
Using HTML Like a Pro - Learning web typography
- Adding graphics and multimedia
- Using layout technology
- Optimizing your pages for Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape Navigator 6 and 7
- Formatting your site with Cascading Style Sheets
Going Beyond HTML - Adding advanced content to web pages
- Creating real-world HTML forms
- Exploring and navigating Dynamic HTML
- Learning JavaScript
- Introducing XML
- Catching the next wave: XHTML
HTML Reference - XHTML Basic Specification
- HTML and XHTML Elements and Attributes
- Cascading Style Sheets Reference
Synopsis
HTML is the building block for intranets and the web. XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is the newest version of HTML; it brings the functionality of XML to HTML so that developers can easily use their content on a multitude of platforms. A thorough working knowledge of HTML and XHTML remains critical to effective web content development.
About the Author
Sybex, Inc.: Sybex editors and authors have pulled together the best information from these books: Mastering HTML and XHTML; HTML 4.0 No Experience Required; web by design; Mastering XML; XML Processing with Perl, Python and PHP.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Introducing HTML.
Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with HTML and XHTML.
Chapter 3: Creating Your First HTML or XHTML Document.
Chapter 4: Stepping Out: Linking Your Way Around the Web.
Chapter 5: Publishing Your (X)HTML Documents.
Chapter 6: Planning for a Usable, Maintainable Website.
Part II: Planning and Designing Your Web Page.
Chapter 7: Formatting the Body Section of Your Pages.
Chapter 8: Dividing a Window with Frames.
Chapter 9: Layout Technology.
Chapter 10: Adding Graphics.
Chapter 11: Presenting Information in Tables.
Chapter 12: Web Typography.
Part III: Advanced HTML.
Chapter 13: Optimizing Your Web Pages for Internet Explorer.
Chapter 14: Optimizing Your Web Pages for Netscape Navigator.
Chapter 15: Including Multimedia.
Chapter 16: Using Style Sheets.
Chapter 17: Developing Forms.
Chapter 18: Bringing Pages to Life with Dynamic HTML and XHTML.
Part IV: XML.
Chapter 19: XHTML: HTML Goes XML.
Chapter 20: Introduction to XML.
Chapter 21: Fundamentals of XML.
Part V: Appendices.
Appendix A: HTML and XHTML Elements and Attributes.
Appendix B: Cascading Style Sheets Reference.
Index.