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1 Introduction.- Why use the Web?.- Who should read this book.- Assumptions made in this book.- Things you'll need.- How to use the book.- Some Internet and World Wide Web concepts and terms.- Browsers.- Other tools.- Graphics Software.- 2 Planning and Designing Your Web Site.- Planning ahead.- A simple project plan: Wallace's nuts, bolts and grommets.- Starting small and working up.- Making use of Hypertext.- Designing the site.- 3 Early Html: Your First Home Page.- Getting started: the browser.- Your first home page.- Head, body and foot.- What it all means.- How to do more interesting things.- Commonly used tags.- Using different sized headings; the H tags.- Structuring your documents.- Coda.- 4 Links and Hypertext.- More about Hypertext.- Creating Links.- Links to external documents.- Creating links within the same document.- The Soccer Web.- Making it into a 'proper' web.- Coda.- 5 Logical and Physical Mark-Up.- Use Logical Mark-up!.- More logical mark-up.- Physical Mark-up.- Coda.- 6 Using Images.- Using images.- GIFS, JPEGS and PNG: types of images for the web.- JPEGs.- Including images in your pages; the IMG tag.- Alternate text.- Moving your images left, right and centre.- The Align attribute.- The Height and Width attributes.- HSPACE and VSPACE.- Borders.- Client side image maps.- Button bars.- 7 Lists.- Unordered lists.- Ordered Lists.- Nested Lists.- Definition Lists: DL, DT and DD.- 8 Forms.- Form basics.- How forms are handled: CGI.- Defining the form.- Form methods.- Sending a form through e-mail.- The INPUT tag.- Checkboxes and radio buttons.- Radio Buttons.- Drop down menus and scrolling lists.- 9 Frames.- Designing the Pages.- Proceed with Caution.- Frame Tags.- Using Frames effectively.- 10 Tables.- The TABLE tag.- Borders, spacing andpadding.- More complex table layout.- Coda.- 11 Cascading Style Sheets.- Cascading Style Sheets.- Designing your site for style sheets.- How style sheets work.- Inheritance.- Context.- Multiple Selectors.- Classes.-