The complete idiot's guide to creating a Web page and blog. (©2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Paul McFedries.
• Other Names: McFedries, Paul; McFedries, Paul
• Contents: Creating Your First Web Page and Blog -- A Brief HTML Primer -- What Can You Do with HTML? -- Pages from All Walks of Web Life -- Laying the Foundation: The Basic Structure of a Web Page or Blog -- Tag Daze--Understanding HTML's Tags -- And Now, Some Actual HTML -- A Page by Any Other Name: Adding a Title -- Fleshing Out Your Page with Text -- How to Do Paragraphs -- Help! The Browser Shows My Tags! -- From Buck-Naked to Beautiful: Dressing Up Your Page or Blog -- Sprucing Up Your Text -- A Few Formatting Features You'll Use All the Time -- Textras: Fancier Text Formatting -- The Gist of a List: Adding Lists to Your Page -- Putting Your Affairs in Order with Numbered Lists -- Scoring Points with Bulleted Lists -- Defining Definition Lists -- Combining Lists Inside Lists -- Making the Jump to Hyperspace: Adding Links -- The URL of Net: A Cyberspace Address Primer -- Getting Hyper: Creating Links in HTML -- Creating an E-mail Link -- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Clicks: Working with Images -- Images: Some Semi-Important Background Info -- The Nitty-Gritty at Last: The [left angle bracket]IMG[right angle bracket] Tag -- Good Uses for Images on Your Web Page -- Changing the Page Background -- A Special Image: The Pixel Shim (spacer.gif) -- Giving a GIF a Transparent Background -- The Host with the Most: Choosing a Web Hosting Provider -- What in the Name of Sam Hill Is a Web Hosting Provider? -- A Buyer's Guide to Web Hosting -- A List of Lists: Sites That Offer Lists of Web Hosts -- Publish or Perish: Putting Your Page or Blog on the Web -- What Does Your Web Home Look Like? -- A Pre-Trip Checklist -- Okay, Ship It! -- "Hey, I'm over Here!" Getting Your Site on the Search Engines -- A Grab Bag of Web Page and Blog Wonders -- Images Can Be Links, Too -- Turning an Image into a Link -- Why Should I Use an Image as a Link? -- The Ins and Outs of Image Links -- Images Can Be Maps, Too -- Table Talk: Adding Tables to Your Page -- What Is a Table? -- Web Woodworking: How to Build a Table -- Table Refinishing--More Table Tidbits -- Using a Table to Set Up a Page with a Margin -- Making Your Web Pages Dance and Sing -- Sound Advice: Adding Sounds to Your Page -- Do-It-Yourself Disney: Animated GIF Images -- Creating a Marquee -- Redirecting Browsers with Client Pull -- Need Feedback? Create a Form! -- What Is a Form, Anyway? -- Creating a Form -- Using Text Areas for Multiline Text -- Toggling an Option On and Off with Check Boxes -- Multiple Choice Options: Radio Buttons -- Oh Say, Can You CGI? -- Fooling Around with Frames -- What's with All the Frame Fuss? -- Forging a Frameset Page -- Teaching Frames and Links to Get Along -- Frame Frills and Frippery -- Handling Frame-Feeble Browsers -- Fancier Frames -- Some Web Page Doodads You Should Know About -- The Searchable Site: Adding a Search Feature -- Talk Amongst Yourselves: Adding a Chat Room or Bulletin Board -- Using Server-Side Includes to Insert Files in Your Pages -- Sneakily Hiding Text with HTML Comment Tags -- The Elements of Web Page Style -- Content Is King: Notes About Writing -- The Overall Organization of Your Web Pages -- Organization and Layout Hints for Individual Pages -- Guidance for Using Graphics -- Link Lessons: Keeping Your Links in the Pink -- Building Your Best Blog -- Blog Design Considerations -- Designing Your Blog Entries -- Designing Your Blog Pages -- Archiving Blog Entries -- The Elements of Blog Style -- Notes About Blog Style -- Style, Schmyle: It's the Content, Silly -- Blog Style Tips -- Building an Audience for Your Blog -- Measuring the Size of Your Audience -- Basic Strategies for Drawing a Crowd -- Creating a Crowd-Pleasingly Interactive Site -- Syndicating Your Site -- Getting Along in the Blog World -- Netiquette for Blog Readers -- Netiquette for Bloggers -- Choosing and Using Blog Tools -- Choosing a Blog Host -- Blogger: Push-Button Publishing -- TypePad: The New Host in Town -- Other Blog Hosts -- Running a Server-Side Blog Program -- Blog Comment Systems -- High HTML Style: Working with Style Sheets -- A Beginner's Guide to Style Sheets -- What's a Style, and What's a Sheet? -- What About Browser Support? -- Some Style Basics -- Three Sheets to the Web: Style Sheets and HTML -- Sheet Music: Styles for Fonts, Colors, and Backgrounds -- Using Styles to Control Fonts -- Text Styles: More Ways to Format Text -- Coloring Your Web World with Color Styles -- Using Background Styles -- The Box Model: Styles for Dimensions, Borders, Margins, and More -- Thinking Outside the Box: Understanding the Box Model -- Box Blueprints: Specifying the Dimensions -- Cushy Content: Adding Padding to the Inside of the Box -- The Box Revealed: Setting Borders -- Room to Breathe: Specifying Margins Around the Box -- Where the Box Goes: Working with Position Styles -- HTML Codes for Cool Characters -- The CD: The Webmaster's Toolkit.
• Edition: 6th ed
• Publisher Details: Indianapolis, IN : Alpha
• Publication Date: 2004
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (385 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.7/2; Web site development -- Amateurs' manuals; Web sites -- Design -- Amateurs' manuals; HTML (Document markup language) -- Amateurs' manuals; World Wide Web; Blogs; COMPUTERS -- Data Processing; Blogs; HTML (Document markup language); Web site development; Web sites -- Design; World Wide Web; CD-ROMs; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781440690556; 1440690553; 9781440696275; 1440696276
• Related ISBNs: 1592572677; 9781592572670
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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