HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One for Dummies - Andy Harris [0]
Table of Contents
Introduction
No Experience Necessary
Great for Advanced Folks, Too!
Use Any Computer
Don’t Buy Any Software
How This Book Is Organized
New for the Second Edition
Icons Used in This Book
What’s Next?
Book I: Creating the HTML/XHTML Foundation
Book I: Chapter 1: Sound HTML Foundations
Creating a Basic Page
Understanding the HTML in the Basic Page
Meeting Your New Friends, the Tags
Setting Up Your System
Displaying file extensions
Setting up your software
Book I: Chapter 2: It’s All about Validation
Somebody Stop the HTML Madness!
XHTML to the rescue
There’s XHTML and there’s good XHTML
Building an XHTML Document
Don’t memorize all this!
The DOCTYPE tag
The xmlns attribute
The meta tag
You validate me
Validating Your Page
Aesop visits W3C
Showing off your mad skillz
Using Tidy to repair pages
Book I: Chapter 3: Choosing Your Tools
What’s Wrong with the Big Boys?
Alternative Web Development Tools
The features you need on your computer
Building a basic toolbox
Picking a Text Editor
Tools to avoid unless you have nothing else
A noteworthy editor: Notepad++
The old standards: VI and Emacs
Other text editors
The Web Developer’s Browser
A little ancient history
Overview of the prominent browsers
Other notable browsers
The bottom line in browsers
Tricking Out Firefox
Validating your pages with HTML Validator
Using the Web Developer toolbar
Using Firebug
Using a Full-Blown IDE
Introducing Aptana
Customizing Aptana
Introducing Komodo Edit
Book I: Chapter 4: Managing Information with Lists and Tables
Making a List and Checking It Twice
Creating an unordered list
Creating ordered lists
Making nested lists
Building the definition list
Building Tables
Defining the table
Spanning rows and columns
Avoiding the table-based layout trap
Book I: Chapter 5: Making Connections with Links
Making Your Text Hyper
Introducing the anchor tag
Comparing block-level and inline elements
Analyzing an anchor
Introducing URLs
Making Lists of Links
Working with Absolute and Relative References
Understanding absolute references
Introducing relative references
Book I: Chapter 6: Adding Images
Adding Images to Your Pages
Adding links to images
Adding inline images using the tag
Choosing an Image Manipulation Tool
An image is worth 3.4 million words!
Introducing IrfanView
Choosing an Image Format
BMP
JPG/JPEG
GIF
PNG
Summary of Web image formats
Manipulating Your Images
Changing formats in IrfanView
Resizing your images
Enhancing image colors
Using built-in effects
Other effects you can use
Batch processing
Using Images as Links
Creating thumbnail images
Creating a thumbnail-based image directory
Book I: Chapter 7: Creating Forms
You Have Great Form
Forms must have some form
Organizing a form with fieldsets and labels
Building Text-Style Inputs
Making a standard text field
Building a password field
Making multi-line text input
Creating Multiple Selection Elements
Making selections
Building check boxes
Creating radio buttons
Pressing Your Buttons
Making input-style buttons
Building a Submit button
It’s a do-over: The Reset button
Introducing the