Outline:

Learn HTML on the Mac In a Weekend

by Steve Callihan

• Introduction
• Friday Evening: Getting Oriented
• Saturday Morning: Learning the Basics
• Saturday Afternoon: Dressing Up Your Pages
• Saturday Evening (Bonus Session): Working with Tables
• Sunday Morning: Working with Frames
• Sunday Afternoon: Working with Forms
• Sunday Evening (Bonus Session): Completing Your Wish List
• Appendixes

1. Who Should Read This Book
2. What You Can Do in a Weekend
3. What You Need to Begin
4. What This Book Covers
5. Special Features of this Book
6. Visit This Book's Web Site

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I. Friday Evening: Getting Oriented

1. What Is HTML?
2. What Is Hypertext?
3. What Is a Markup Language?
4. HTML: The Evolution of a Standard
5. Take a Break
6. What is XML and XHTML?
7. Wrapping Up

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II. Saturday Morning: Learning the Basics

1. What You Need
2. Copying the Example Files from the CD-ROM
3. Anatomy of an HTML Tag
4. The "Scratch Pad" Model
5. Saving Your HTML File
6. Turning Word Wrap On in Notepad
7. Starting Your HTML File
8. Using a Starting Template
9. Working with Headings, Paragraphs, and Line Breaks
10. Spacing, Tabs, and Returns: For Your Eyes Only
11. Highlighting Your Text
12. Inserting Non-Keyboard Characters
13. Adding Comments
14. Using Block Quotes
15. Using Preformatted Text
16. Take a Break
17. Creating Lists
18. Creating Hypertext Links
19. Creating Link Lists
20. Using Inline Images
21. Using Horizontal Rules
22. Signing Your Work
23. Saving Your Work
24. Wrapping Up

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III. Saturday Afternoon: Dressing Up Your Pages

1. What You Need
2. Using the Starting Template
3. Saving Your HTML File
4. Using a Banner Image
5. Horizontally Aligning Images
6. Using Graphic Rules
7. Flowing Text Around Images
8. Creating a Drop Cap Effect
9. Working with Image Links
10. Creating Custom Lists
11. Take a Break
12. Creating Icon Link Lists
13. Changing Font Sizes
14. Changing Font Colors
15. Changing Font Faces
16. Using Background Colors and Images
17. Adding the Final Touches
18. Save Your Work
19. Wrapping Up

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IV. Saturday Evening (Bonus Session): Working with Tables

1. What You Need
2. Using the Starting Template
3. Saving Your HTML File
4. Starting Your Table
   1. Defining Columns and Rows
   2. Adding and Controlling Borders
   3. Adding Captions
   4. Setting Cell Spacing and Padding
   5. Adding Column Headings
   6. Adding a Caption
   7. Centering a Table
   8. Setting the Table Width
5. Doing More with Your Table
   1. Adding Row Headings
   2. Horizontally Aligning Cell Contents
   3. Setting Column Widths
   4. Inserting an Image
   5. Vertically Aligning Cell Contents
   6. Spanning Columns
   7. Spanning Rows
   8. Setting Row Heights
6. Take a Break
7. Controlling Fonts, Colors, and Backgrounds
   1. Changing Font Sizes and Colors
   2. Assigning Background Colors
   3. Removing Borders and Cell Spacing
   4. Using Background Images
   5. Controlling Border Colors
8. Creating Icon Link Lists Using Tables
9. Flowing Text and Other Elements around Tables
   1. Flowing Text around a Table
   2. Displaying Side-by-Side Tables
   3. Adjusting the Horizontal Position of Side-by-Side Tables
10. Saving Your Work
11. Take a Break
12. Creating Two-Column Layouts Using Tables
    1. Using a Two-Column Background Image
    2. Setting the Column Width with a Spacer Image
    3. Including a Banner Image
    4. Adding Vertical Spacing
    5. Creating a Vertical Button Menu
    6. Adding the Content to the Right Column
13. Save Your Work
14. Wrapping Up

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V. Sunday Morning: Working with Frames

1. Pros and Cons of Using Frames
2. What You Need
3. Creating Two-Column and Two-Row Frame Pages
4. Take a Break
5. Creating a Combo Row/Column Frame Page
6. Creating a "Nested" Row/Column Frame Page
7. Using Background Images to Dress Up Your Frame Pages
8. Wrapping Up

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VI. Sunday Afternoon: Working with Forms

1. What You Need
2. Creating Mailto and CGI Forms
3. Starting Your Form Page
4. Setting Up the FORM Element
5. Creating Input Controls
   1. Creating Text Boxes
   2. Creating Radio Buttons
   3. Creating Check Boxes
   4. Other Input Controls
6. Creating List Menus
7. Creating Text Area Boxes
8. Creating Submit and Reset Buttons
9. Take a Break
10. Handling Form Responses
11. Creating CGI Forms
12. Creating Secure Forms
13. Using JavaScript with Forms

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VII. Sunday Evening (Bonus Session): Completing Your Wish List

1. Adding Background Sound
2. Adding a Hit Counter
3. Adding a Guestbook
4. Adding a Message Board
5. Adding GIF Animations
6. Adding Image Maps
7. Adding a Search Form
8. Adding JavaScripts
9. Adding Java Applets
10. Adding Dynamic HTML Effects
11. Adding Streaming Media
12. Adding Interactive Animations

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Appendixes

1. HTML Quick Reference
2. XHTML/XML Compatibility Guide
3. Non-Keyboard Characters
4. Using Relative URLs
5. Using Cascading Style Sheets
6. Working with Graphics
   1. Creating Interlaced and Transparent GIFs
   2. Using Solid, Linear, and Other Fill Effects
   3. Creating Transparent Drop Shadow Effects
   4. Creating Adaptive (Customized) Palettes
   5. Optimizing GIF and JPEG Images
7. Transferring Your Pages to the Web
   1. Finding a Web Host
   2. Transferring Your Pages to a Server
   3. Using Transmit to Transfer Your Pages
8. What's On the CD-ROM

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