How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML - Softcover

Pence, James H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072231297 ISBN 13: 9780072231298

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003

Synopsis

Get straight to the essentials of Web site development with of this step-by-step goldmine. Learn to build your Web site using HTML and XHTML basics. Then, this easy-to-follow guide takes you through adding images, using tables for data and layout, creating framesets, enhancing visuals with style sheets, embedding objects, and even adding interactivity with forms.

About this title

About the Author

James H. Pence (Campbell, TX), author of How to Do Everything with HTML, is a self-described "non-technical" writer. He was trained in creative writing and journalism at the Dallas Theological Seminary. As a member of the HTML Writers' Guild, James authors and maintains his own Web site, Tuppence Creative Ministries, at www.tuppence.org. Addition-ally, he works as a freelance Web designer and is currently developing sites for author Reg Grant (www.reggrant.com).

From the Back Cover

This step-by-step resource takes the fear and mystery out of using markup languages HTML and XHTML to build Web sites--it will help you through the process with friendly and familiar terms and techniques. You'll cover all the basics, learn to add links, images, and data, and move on to advanced techniques such as animation, image maps, and interactivity. Discover the XHTML 1.0 recommendations and the direction in which Web design is headed with XHMTL 1.1 (XHTML Modularization) and the XHTML 2.0 working draft. Whatever your goals are, you'll find what you need to accomplish them in How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML.

• Understand basic HTML syntax
• Control font size and type
• Keep your site up to date with ease
• Use frames to display multiple pages
• Polish the appearance of elements with Cascading Style Sheets
• Incorporate audio and video files
• Mix your own colors and be sure you're using browser-safe colors
• Add interactive features with JavaScript
• Learn to work with GIF and JPEG graphic files

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072231297
• ISBN 13: 9780072231298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416