By Vivian Neou and Mimi Recker

Table of Contents for the HTML CD for Windows

Introduction

• Who Needs HTML
• What This Book Can Do For You
• Contents of the CD
• Conventions Used in This Book
• What You Should Know

The World Wide Web and Browsers

• What’s In This Chapter
• HTML and the Internet
• Browsers
• HTML and Browsers
• Getting Browsers

The Basics

• What’s In This Chapter
• Creating an HTML Document
• Markup Tags
  • Title: <TITLE>
  • Headings
  • Paragraphs: <P>
  • Horizontal Lines: <HR>
  • Lists
  • Specifying Items in Lists: <LI>
  • Creating a List
  • Unnumbered Lists: <UL>
  • Numbered Lists: <OL>
  • Directory List: <DIR>
  • Menu List: <MENU>
  • Definition Lists: <DL>
  • Pre-formatted Text: <PRE>
  • The Kayaking Document
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

URLs and Links

• What’s In This Chapter
• Uniform Resource Locators
• Markup Tag: <A>
• Special Characters
• Other Ways to Use Links
  • FTP
  • File
  • Mail
  • Telnet
  • Gopher
  • News
• Link Trivia
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Multimedia: Images, Video and Sound

• What’s In This Chapter
• Images in HTML Documents: <IMG>
• Graphics Formats
• Choosing An Image Format
• Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
• Aligning Images
• Images and Text-only Browsers
• Transparent Backgrounds
• Thumbnails
• LView Pro
  • Creating Transparent Backgrounds
• Images With Clickable Spots: Image Maps
  • Mapedit
  • ISMAP
• Using Video in Your Web Pages
• Links to Images, Sounds, Movies
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Forms and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

• What’s In This Chapter
• Introduction
• Forms and Browsers
• Forms
  • Forms: <FORM>
  • Input: <INPUT>
  • CHECKBOX Type
  • RADIO Type
  • HIDDEN Type
  • TEXT Type
  • PASSWORD Type
  • SUBMIT and RESET Types
  • IMAGE Type
  • Textarea: <TEXTAREA>
  • Select: <SELECT> and Option: <OPTION>
• The Complete Form
• HTML TAGS: ISINDEX, ISMAP
  • ISINDEX: <ISINDEX>
• CGI Scripts
  • Post and Get
• Form Data
• Polyform
  • Installation
  • Setup
  • Making A Script
  • Script Name
  • Output Style
  • Object Returned to Client
  • Mail Options
  • Creating the Script and Form
  • Linking an Existing Form to PolyForm
  • Log Files
  • Getting More Help
  • PolyForm Example
  • Errors
  • Registering PolyForm
• Security
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Future of HTML

• What’s In this Chapter
• The Future of HTML
• New Elements and Attributes in HTML 3
  • Text Alignment
  • Figures: <FIG>
  • Tables: <TABLE>
  • Document Background
• Netscape and HTML
• Netscape Modifications to Existing Tags
  • BODY
  • ISINDEX
  • Horizontal Rule: <HR>
  • Unordered Lists: <UL>
  • Ordered Lists: <OL>
  • LI
  • IMG
  • Line Break: <BR>
• New Netscape Elements
  • Blink: <BLINK>
  • No Break: <NOBR>
  • Word Break: <WBR>
  • Font Size: <FONT SIZE=value>
  • Base Font Size: <BASEFONT SIZE=value>
  • CENTER: <CENTER>

Design Guidelines, Styles and Tips

• What’s In This Chapter
• Introduction
• Page Design and Layout
  • Header Elements
  • Footer Elements
• Using Graphics and Other Multimedia Items
• Style
• Supporting Navigation
  • Include a Table of Contents
  • Don’t Go Hyperlink-Wild
  • Don’t fall into the "click here" trap
  • Provide navigation buttons
• Use of System Resources
  • Minimize document size
• Test Your Documents
• Checking and Verifying Your Web Documents
• Master Home Pages

Designing Home Pages

• What’s In This Chapter
• Personal Home Pages
• Kelly Kayaker’s Home Page
• Kelly’s Kayaking Document
• Mimi’s Home Page
• Business Home Pages
  • Ozone’s Order Form

Windows HTTP Server

• What’s In This Chapter
• What this Server Can Do For You
• Installing WHTTPD
• Customizing The Server
• Configuration Files
• Loading Your Master Home Page
  • Copying Home Pages to Default Locations
  • Modifying Configuration Files
  • Aliasing Directories
• Redirection
• Errors
• ImageMaps
• CGI and Forms
  • Windows CGI Interface
  • DOS CGI Interface
• Access Control
  • User Authentication
  • HTPASSWD
  • Multiple Users
  • Verifying User Access Control Setup
  • Host Filtering
• Log Files
• WinCron
• General Server Guidelines

Editors, Converters and Verifiers

• What’s In This Chapter
• HTML Editors
• HoTMetaL
  • HoTMetaL Initialization File
  • Creating HTML Documents in HoTMetaL
  • View Options
  • Modifying Tags
  • Creating Links
  • Adding Images
  • Entering Special Characters
  • Creating Forms
  • Opening Existing HTML Documents
  • HoTMetaL PRO
• Converters
  • RTFTOHTM
  • How it works
  • What about Graphics?
  • Special Processing
  • Making a Named Anchor
  • Footnote/Endnote Processing
  • Discarding Unwanted Text
  • Imbedding HTML in a Document
  • Customizing rtftohtml
  • HTML-TRA
  • .PTag Table
  • Sample .PTag Entries
  • .TTag Table
  • .PMatch Table
  • Sample .PMatch Entries
  • .TMatch Table
  • Sample .PTag Entries
  • Adding Paragraph Styles
  • Command Line Options
  • Nested Lists
• HTML To Other Formats

Announcing Your Web pages

• Personal Home Pages
• Announcing to Newsgroups
• Announcing to the Web
• Announcing a Server

ISO Latin 1
ASCII Table
Useful URLs

• HTML INFORMATION
• CGI Information
• Netscape Extensions

WWW Service Providers
Internet Chameleon

• Using Custom
• Other Chameleon Applications