HTML For Dummies

Those wonderful Web pages you see while surfing the Internet are not as hard to create as you may think. Underlying every one of them is HTML (HyperText Markup Language), an ever-expanding system of tags that controls everything from a Web page's layout and typographic formatting to how images and embedded Shockwave movies and Java applets appear and behave. In HTML For Dummies, Second Edition -- now completely updated with the latest innovations in standard HTML as well as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer extensions -- you find complete, easy-to-understand explanations of every HTML tag. Plus, you find savvy advice on how and how not to use those tags. Authors Ed Tittel and Steve James even share their secrets on organizing whole Web sites and present the plusses and minuses of the various Web publishing options. Best of all, HTML For Dummies, Second Edition, includes a bonus disk containing HTML templates and other terrific resources to help you build great Web pages fast.

The entire "For Dummies" series is no insult -- these are consistently some of the best introductions to their topics available. For beginners, even using an HTML editor is daunting. In clear language and with a dose of humor at every turn, the authors lead you through creating a web page, making it shine and taming some of the trickier aspects of web pages like CGI programming. The cartoons sprinkled throughout the book are marvelous. Don't miss the "Top Ten HTML Dos and Don'ts" or "Ten Design Desiderata."