Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages

It isnt easy keeping up with the latest changes to HTML. And it definitely isnt easy maintaining a hip-and-happening Web site. But weve got a book that can help you do both. Creating Cool™ HTML 4 Web Pages shows you how to use the next generation of HTML tags to create engaging Web pages that communicate your message in cool and effective ways. Best-selling author Dave Taylor has a whole new bag of tips and tricks for revving up your Web pages and getting your site noticed. Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages is packed with ideas on implementing graphics, animation, and special effects, using style sheets, registering with leading search engines, and more. The CD-ROM features useful tools for both the Mac and PC platforms. Mac users will enjoy BBEdit Lite, DeBabelizer Lite, GIF Builder, Image Mapper, and more. For PC users theres FTP Explorer, Animagic GIF, Paint Shop Pro, and ApplePie HTML Editor, to name a few.

The most recent update to Dave Taylor's popular guide includes HTML 4 and still offers great advice for beginning-to-intermediate Web-page authors. Taylor's calm, competent tone reassures those who are creating their first page, but his expertise in designing Web pages is valuable for those who are ready to do more.

Taylor first shows new users what a Web page is, how a browser works, what URLs are, and other basic concepts. He then delves into basic HTML, fonts, and text styles and explains how to make lists, special characters, pointers, and links; add graphics; and create tables and frames. Taylor moves into advanced topics such as background, marquees, image maps, JavaScript, forms, plug-ins, Dynamic HTML, style sheets, and more, using his own award-winning work as tutorial examples. He clearly discusses the HTML coding used to create each page.

Taylor teaches the basics to new users without overwhelming them and gives intermediate users the option to learn more when they are ready. He shows users how to get their Web pages ready for publication and how to publicize them so that people will come to see them. The strong appendices include a primer on building your very first page, a step-by-step planning guide for page and site builders, a resource list on where to publish your pages, a glossary, and an HTML quick reference guide that is linked to various chapters. An accompanying CD-ROM includes Net utilities and Web design shareware for the PC and Mac. --Elizabeth Lewis