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Essential HTML \(fast\)





This book in the Essential Series of Springer Verlag is devoted to HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language), provides to the reader the quick learning and understanding on how to effectively design professional Web (World-Wide Web, or WWW, or simply Web) pages and sites, and is addressed to business users, students, personal and/or experienced users. In the 12 chapters of the book there are pointed out the following topics: Chapter 1 (Introduction) defines some Internet and Web necessary concepts and terms such as: IP (Internet Protocol), URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTML browsers, editors, graphics software, etc. Chapters 2 and 3 take the first steps towards making use of HTML page, basic tags, and structuring of the documents. Chapter 4 (Links and Hypertext) shows how to create hypertext links within internal and external documents, to set up a directory structure, and to create a hyper-link to other types of information. Chapter 5 emphasizes the difference between logical and physical mark-up, describing the tags to be used. Chapter 6 discusses the image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG) supported on the Web, showing how to handle them within HTML pages. Chapter 7 works with lists, Chapter 8 with forms, and Chapter 9 with frames. Chapter 10 presents tables, cell spacing, padding and grouping, spanning text across multicolumns, etc. Chapter 11 (Cascading Style Sheets) shows how to design and apply style sheets, fonts, colours, linkings on a Web site. The final Chapter 12 (Web Technologies) surveys topics on multimedia, CGI (Common Gateway Interface), Perl, Java (Script), and Web resources.






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