Create Your First Web Page, Revised and Expanded Book

Introduction
Friday Evening: Getting Started
What Is the Internet?
What Is the World Wide Web?
What Is Hypertext?
What Is HTML?
What Is a URL?
What Is a Domain Name?
What Is a Web Page?
What Is a Web Site?
What Is a Home Page?
Take a Break
Where's HTML Going?
Getting Set Up
Selecting Your Text Editor
Selecting Your Web Browser
Setting Up for Offline Browsing
Selecting Your Graphics Editor
What's Next?
Saturday Morning: The Basic HTML Tutorial
Creating Your Working Folder
Installing the Example Files
A Quick Word About HTML
Dynamically Updating Your Work
Running Your Web Browser and Text Editor
Anatomy of A Tag
Starting Your Page
Saving a Starting Template
Using Heading Level Tags
Creating Paragraphs and Line Breaks
Spacing, Tabs, and Returns: For Your Eyes Only
Adding Comments
Highlighting Your Text
Inserting Reserved and Special Characters
Using Block Quotes
Using Preformatted Text
Take a Break
Creating Lists
Creating Definition Lists
Creating Hypertext Links
Anatomy of the A (Anchor) Tag
Creating Link Lists
Using Inline Images
Using Relative URLs
Using Horizontal Rules
Signing Your Work
What's Next?
Saturday Afternoon: The Intermediate HTML Tutorial
Running Your Web Browser and Text Editor
Loading Your Starting Template
Working with Text
Working with Images
Aligning Images
Wrapping Text Around Images
Working with Image Links
Working with Lists
Take a Break
Creating Icon Link Lists
Working with Rules
Using Graphic Rules
Working with Fonts
Using Background Colors and Images
What's Next?
Saturday Evening: The Tables Tutorial (Bonus Session)
Running Your Web Browser and Text Editor
Loading Your Starting Template
Working with the TABLE Tag
Defining Columns and Rows
Adding and Controlling Borders
Setting Spacing and Padding
Defining Column Headings
Adding a Caption
Centering a Table
Setting Table Width and Height
Adding Row Headings
Inserting an Image
Vertically Aligning Cell Contents
Spanning Columns
Spanning Rows
Changing Font Sizes and Colors
Assigning Background Colors
Using Background Images
Defining Table Head, Body, and Foot Sections
Other Table Tags
Take a Break
Creating Icon Bullet Link Lists
What's Next?
Sunday Morning: Planning Your First Web Page
Using the Prima Interface to Install the Example Web Pages
Thinking Ahead
Getting Oriented
Defining Your Objective
Devising Your Outline
Selecting an Example Web Page
Take a Break
Assembling Your Materials
Gathering Your URLs (Optional)
Creating Your Mock-Up Text File
Drawing a Map (Optional)
What's Next?
Sunday Afternoon: Creating Your First Web Page
Choosing Your Approach
Loading Your Mock-Up Text File
Setting Up an Example Web Page
Using Placeholders
Saving Your Web Page File
Starting Your Web Page
Top Section (All Three Example Web Pages)
Take a Break
Middle Section (First Example Web Page)
Middle Section (Second Example Web Page)
Middle Section (Third Example Web Page)
Bottom Section (All Three Example Web Pages)
Extra Options for the Whole Page
What's Next?
Sunday Evening: The Graphics Tutorial (Bonus Session)
Creating an Image Folder
Installing and Running Paint Shop Pro
Creating Special Effects with Paint Shop Pro
Screen Layout
Creating Interlaced GIFs
Creating Transparent GIFs
Creating Drop Shadows
Effective Transparent Drop Shadows
Using Fill Effects
Creating 3-D Buttons
What's Next?
Appendix A: The Web Resources Directory
General Web Publishing Resources
HTML Features
Programming
Graphics Resources
Putting It Up on the Web
Appendix B: The Web Tools Directory
Web Browsing Tools
HTML Editing Tools
Graphics Tools
Audio and Video Tools
HTML Utilities
Miscellaneous Software
Appendix C: Special Characters
Reserved Characters
Unused Characters
Special Characters
Appendix D: Putting It Up on the Web
Finding a Web Host
Transferring Your Web Page to a Server
A Few Things You Need to Know
Setting Up WS-FTP LE
Using WS-FTP LE
Appendix E: What's on the CD-ROM
Running the CD-ROM
The Prima User Interface
Book Examples
Software
Index