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The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Creating an
HTML Web Page
by  Paul McFedries
C  O  N  T  E  N  T  S
Chapter 1   The Top Ten Steps to a Perfect Web Page
Step 1: Crank Up a New Text File●   
Step 2: Understand HTML Tags●   
Step 3: Set Up the Basic Structure of the Page●   
Step 4: Add a Snappy Title●   
Step 5: Add Text and Paragraphs●   
Step 6: Adding Formatting and Headings●   
Step 7: Toss In a Few Links to Other Pages●   
Step 8: Add Impact with Images●   
Step 9: Use a Browser to See How Your Page Looks●   
Step 10: Publish the Page on the Web●   
Chapter 2   It's a Wonderful World Wide Web
The Internet Nitty-Gritty
Redefining the Internet❍   
An Overview of the Internet Services❍   
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The Net's Wunderkind: The World Wide Web
The Secret of the Web's Success❍   
Some Web Words to Surf By❍   
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Browsing Basics, Featuring Netscape Navigator
Getting Your Hands on Netscape❍   
A Tour of the Netscape Screen❍   
Navigator Navigating I: Following the Links❍   
Navigator Navigating II: Entering a URL❍   
Navigator Navigating III: Retracing Your Steps❍   
Navigator Navigating IV: Creating Bookmarks❍   
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Browsers: The Best of the Rest●   
The Least You Need to Know●   

Chapter 3   It's a Wonderful World Wide Web
Okay, So Just What Is HTML?●   
What Can You Do with HTML?
You Can Format Text❍   
You Can Create Lists of Things❍   
You Can Set Up Links to Other Pages❍   
You Can Insert Images❍   
You Can Format Information in Tables❍   
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Pages from All Walks of Web Life
The Personal Touch: Personal Home Pages❍   
Hobbyists Do It with HTML❍   
Not for Bathroom Reading: Electronic Magazines❍   
Corporate Culture Hits the Web❍   
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Government Web Pages❍   
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The Changing Face of HTML: HTML 3.0●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 4   Laying the Foundation: The Basic Structure of a Web Page
Getting Started
Crank Out a New Text File❍   
The Edit-Save-Browse Cycle❍   
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Tag Daze: Understanding HTML's Tags●   
And Now, Some Actual HTML●   
A Page by Any Other Name: Adding a Title
The <TITLE>Tag❍   
Title Dos and Don'ts❍   
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Fleshing Out Your Page with Text●   
How to Do Paragraphs●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 5   From Buck-Naked to Beautiful: Dressing Up Your Page
Sprucing Up Your Text
Yer Basic Text Formatting Styles❍   
Combining Text Formats❍   
Accessorizing: Displaying Special Characters❍   
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Sectioning Your Page with Headings●   
A Few More Formatting Features
Handling Preformatted Text❍   
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Them's the Breaks: Using <BR> for Line Breaks❍   
Inserting Horizontal Lines❍   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 6   A Fistful of List Grist for Your Web Page Mill
Putting Your Affairs in Order with Numbered Lists●   
Scoring Points with Bulleted Lists●   
Definition Lists●   
Combining Lists Inside Lists●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 7   Making the Jump to Hyperspace: Adding Links
The URL of Net: A Cyberspace Address Primer●   
Getting Hyper: Creating Links in HTML
External Links to Faraway Pages❍   
External Links to Nearby Pages❍   
Anchors Aweigh: Internal Links❍   
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Creating an E-Mail Link●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 8   A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Clicks: Working with Images
Images: Some Semi-Important Background Info
No, Images Aren't Text, But That's Okay❍   
Graphics Formats: Can't We All Just Get Along?❍   
How Do I Get Graphics?❍   
Converting Graphics to GIF Format❍   
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The Nitty-Gritty, At Last: The <IMG> Tag●   
Good Uses for Images on Your Web Page●   
Aligning Text and Images●   
Handling Graphically Challenged Text Browsers●   
Images Can Be Links, Too●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 9   Publishing Your Page on the Web
A Plethora of Web Publishing Possibilities
Use Your Existing Internet Provider❍   
Try to Find a Free Hosting Provider❍   
Sign Up with a Commercial Hosting Provider❍   
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A Pre-Trip Checklist●   
Okay, Ship It!
Setting Up the FTP Program❍   
Sending the Files Via FTP❍   
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Getting the Word Out: Advertising Your Page●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 10   Fooling Around with the Netscape Extensions
The Pizza Metaphor: A Warning Before You Begin●   
Text Extensions
The <FONT> Tag❍   
The < BASEFONT > Tag❍   
Changing the Color of Your Page Text❍   
The Dreaded <BLINK> Tag❍   
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List Extensions
Using a Different Numbering Scheme in Numbered Lists❍   
Changing the Bullet Type in Bulleted Lists❍   
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Graphics Extensions
Specifying Image Height and Width❍   
Setting the Background❍   
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Extra Extensions
Centering Paragraphs❍   
A Better Horizontal Rule❍   
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The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 11  Table Talk: Adding Tables to Your Page
What Is a Table?●   
Web Woodworking: How to Build a Table
The Simplest Case: A One-Row Table❍   
Adding More Rows❍   
Creating a Row of Headers❍   
Including a Caption❍   
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Table Refinishing: More Table Tidbits
Aligning Text Within Cells❍   
Spanning Text Across Multiple Rows or Columns❍   
Netscape's Table Extensions❍   
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The Least You Need to Know●   

Chapter 12  Need Feedback? Create a Form!
What Is a Form, Anyway?●   
Creating Forms
Making It Go: The Submit Button❍   
Starting Over: The Reset Button❍   
Using Text Boxes for Single-Line Text❍   
Using Text Areas for Multi-Line Text❍   
Toggling an Option On and Off with Check Boxes❍   
Multiple Choice Options: Radio Buttons❍   
Selecting From Lists❍   
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Oh Say, Can You CGI?
Ask Your Provider❍   
The Hire-a-Nerd Route❍   
Check Out the Web's CGI Resources❍   
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The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 13  The Elements of Web Page Style
Content Is King: Notes About Writing
Spelling, Grammar, and Other Strangers❍   
More Tips for Righteous Writing❍   
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The Overall Organization of Your Web Pages
The One-Track Web Page: Keep Pages To a Single Topic❍   
Use Your Home Page To Tie Everything Together❍   
Use a Consistent Layout❍   
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Organization and Layout Hints for Individual Pages
Elements To Include in Each Page❍   
Make Your Readers' Lives Easier❍   
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Guidance For Using Graphics●   
Link Lessons: Keeping Your Links in the Pink●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 14  Some HTML Resources on the Web
Graphics Goodies
The Three Bs: Buttons, Bars, and Bullets❍   
Yet Another "B": Background Textures❍   
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A Guide to HTML Style Guides●   
Counter Check: Tallying Your Hits●   
Mailing Lists and UseNet Newsgroups●   

A List of HTML Lists●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 15  Hack to the Future: What's Ahead for HTML and the Web
The Java Jive: A Piping Hot Mug of Browser-Based Programs
What You Need for Java❍   
Some Java Examples❍   
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VRML: Another HTML Dimension
VRML Browsers❍   
Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Some VRML Worlds❍   
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A Look at What's New in Netscape 2.0
Divide and Conquer: Frames❍   
Power On Demand: Plug-Ins❍   
Java for the Masses: JavaScript❍   
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Thar's Gold in Them Thar Pages: Netscape Gold●   
How Netscape Gold Works●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 16  The Best Free HTML Editor: HTML Writer
Cranking Up HTML Writer●   
Getting a Document Onscreen●   
It's a Setup: Getting HTML Writer Ready to Go●   
Creating an HTML Document with HTML Writer
Inserting Document Tags❍   
Inserting Style Tags❍   
Inserting Paragraph Tags❍   
Inserting Image Tags❍   
Inserting Link Tags I: Remote Links❍   
Inserting Link Tags II: Targets❍   
Inserting List Tags❍   
Inserting Character Codes❍   
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Taking the Document for a Test Drive●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 17  The Best Commercial HTML Editor: HotDog
Getting Your Hands on HotDog
Downloading the HotDog File❍   
Installing HotDog❍   
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Installing VBRUN300.DLL❍   
Serving Up HotDog●   
Working with Documents●   
Creating an HTML Document with HotDog●   
Inserting Tags Directly●   
Inserting Objects
Inserting an Image❍   
Inserting a Remote Link❍   
Inserting a Target❍   
Inserting a Table❍   
Inserting a List❍   
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Inserting Character Codes●   
Getting a Sneak Preview of Your Document●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 18  The Word Wide Web: Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word
Grabbing Internet Assistant●   
Dealing with Documents●   
What Happens to Word●   
Internet Assistant: WYSIWYG Web Weaving
Adjusting the Title❍   
Need a New Paragraph? Just Press Enter❍   
Formatting Characters❍   
Working with Styles❍   
Working with Numbered Lists❍   
Working with Bulleted Lists❍   
Working with Definition Lists❍   
Inserting an Image❍   
Inserting Hypertext Links I: Remote Links❍   
Inserting Hypertext Links II: Bookmarks❍   
Constructing Tables❍   
A Few Odds and Ends❍   
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The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 19  Getting Your Web Words Online with America Online
America Online's Web Page Publishing Possibilities●   
Working with My Home Page●   
Adding Text, Links, and Graphics
Tossing in Some Text❍   
●   

Inserting a Link❍   
Sending a Multimedia File to AOL❍   
Adding a Multimedia File to Your Page❍   
Seeing the Changes to Your Page❍   
Editing My Home Page●   
Making My Place Your Web Home
Accessing Your AOL FTP Directory❍   
Uploading Files to Your FTP Directory❍   
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The Least You Need to Know●   
Chapter 20  Assorted Other Ways to Create HTML Documents
Rapid Reviews of a Few More HTML Editors
Getting the WebEdit Page Editor❍   
Professional HTML Editing with HTMLed Pro❍   
Stop the Web Presses: It's NaviPress!❍   
The Step-by-Step Web: WEB Wizard❍   
Faded Glory: HoTMetaL❍   
HTML Editors for the Mac❍   
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Grabbing HTML from an Existing Page●   
Web Pages That Create Web Pages●   
Converting Existing Documents to HTML●   
The Least You Need to Know●   
Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive
HTML Codes for Cool Characters
Credits
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Introduction

Quick! What do the following things have in common? Dennis Rodman's hair color, the name of Elizabeth Taylor's husband, and Oprah's dress

size. Right-they're all things that are constantly changing. But as often as these things change, none of them approaches the endless flux that

characterizes the Internet.

Ah yes, the Internet; that amorphous and motley collection of electrons, geeks, slashes, and "dot coms." Trying to keep up with the Net Joneses and

their relentless out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new culture is a full-time job. (In fact, I know some people for whom it is a full-time job!) Here's

an example: Only a scant year ago, you were the Coolest of the Cool if you had an Internet e-mail address on your business card. Nowadays, of

course, a sizable chunk of the world's Toms, Dicks, and Harriets-nerds and non-nerds alike-have their e-mail monikers plastered all over their

cards. Ho hum. No, to be tragically hip these days, your business card must sport the address of-wait for it-your World Wide Web home page!

Which brings me (at long last) to the subject of this book-creating an HTML Web page. You, I'm sure, couldn't care less about what's cool and

what's not, or about what's "wired" and what's "tired." All you know is that you want to publish a Web page (or perhaps two or three) and you want

to get it done without a lot of hubbub and hullabaloo.

Believe me, you're not alone. People-and I mean average Joes and Josephines; not just programmers and techno-geeks-are overcoming their digital

arachnophobia and are clamoring to spin their own little Web webs. Why? Well, there are probably as many reasons as there are would-be Web

weavers. Some folks are tired of being passive Internet consumers (mouse potatoes?) and want to produce their own content rather than merely

digesting it. Others have information (essays, stories, jokes, diatribes, shopping lists) that they want to share with the world at large, but they never

had the opportunity before. Still, others have had a boss come to them and say "Get our company on the World Wide Web now, before it's too

late!", and so they have to get up to speed before it's too late for them.

A Book For Smart HTML Idiots

When it comes to producing content for the World Wide Web, a "complete idiot" is someone who, despite having the normal complement of gray

matter, wouldn't know HTML from H.G. Wells. This is, of course, perfectly normal and, despite what many so-called Internet gurus may tell you,

it does not imply any sort of character defect on your part.

So I may as well get one thing straight right off the bat: the fact that you're reading The Complete Idiot's Guide To Creating an HTML Web Page

(my, that is a mouthful, isn't it?) does not make you an idiot. On the contrary, it shows that

You have discriminating taste and you will settle for nothing less than the best (and it shows you don't mind immodest authors).●

You have a gift for self-deprecation (which is just a high-falutin' way of saying that you don't take yourself-or any of this Internet

malarkey-too seriously).

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You're determined to learn this HTML thing, but you don't want to be bothered with a lot of boring, technical details.●

You realize it doesn't make sense to learn absolutely everything about HTML. You just need to know enough to get your Web page up and

running.

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You're smart enough not to spend your days reading five bazillion pages of arcane (and mostly useless) information. You do, after all,

have a life to lead.

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This is a book for those of you who aren't (and don't even want to be) Web wizards. This is a book for those of you who have a job or hobby that

includes creating Web pages, and you just want to get it done as quickly and painlessly as possible. This is not one of those absurdly pedantic,

sober-sided, wipe-that-smile-off-your-face-this-is-serious-business kinds of books. On the contrary, we'll even try to have-gasp!-a little irreverent

fun as we go along.

You'll also be happy to know that this book doesn't assume you have any previous experience with Web page production (or even with the World

Wide Web, for that matter). This means that you'll begin each topic at the beginning and build your knowledge from there. However, with The

Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page, you get just the facts you need to know, not everything there is to know. All the

information is presented in short, easy-to-digest chunks that you can easily skim through to find just the information you want.

How This Book Is Set Up

I'm assuming you have a life away from your computer screen, so The Complete Idiot's Guide To Creating an HTML Web Page is set up so you

don't have to read it from cover to cover. If you want to know how to add a picture to your Web page, for example, just turn to the chapter that

covers working with images. (Although, having said that, beginners will want to read at least Chapter 4 before moving on to more esoteric topics.)

To make things easier to find, I've organized the book into four more or less sensible sections:

Part 1: But First, a Few Choice World Wide Web and HTML Tidbits

Instead of diving right into the hurly-burly of HTML, the book lets you dip a toe into the Web publishing waters by starting you off with a few

introductory chapters. Chapter 1 is a kind of "Cliff Notes" version of Part 2 that takes you through the entire process of Web page production in 10

easy steps. Chapter 2 takes a bird's-eye view of the World Wide Web (beginners will want to start their reading here, instead of Chapter 1) and then

Chapter 3 takes a general look at this HTML stuff.

Part 2: Creating Your First HTML Web Page

Here in Part 2 is where you'll actually start creating proper Web pages. Chapters 4 through 8 build your knowledge of basic HTML slowly and with

lots of examples. Chapter 9 shows you how to successfully negotiate the big moment: getting your page on the Web itself for all to admire.

Part 3: A Grab Bag of Web Page Wonders

Part 3 takes you beyond the basics by presenting you with a miscellany of HTML topics, including some cool things that are available with

Netscape's Web browser (Chapter 10), how to create tables (Chapter 11), some hints on proper Web page style (Chapter 12), and some Internet

resources that will help you create great pages (Chapter 13). This section closes by pulling out the crystal ball to take a look at the future of the

Web, just so you're prepared for what's to come (see Chapter 14).

Part 4: Painless Page Production: Easier Ways to Do the HTML Thing

After struggling with all that HTML in Parts 2 and 3, Part 4 shows you a few ways to make all this stuff a bit easier. Specifically, I'll show you how

to wield several tools that take some of the drudgery out of putting together a Web page, including HTML editors, Word for Windows templates,

and even some Web pages that help you create Web pages!

But Wait, There's More!

Happily, there's more to this book than 20 chapters of me yammering away. To round out your HTML education and make your page publishing

adventures a bit easier, I've included a few other goodies:

Tearout Reference Card This card (it's located at the front of the book, in case you missed it on the way in) spells out all the

most essential HTML facts and figures. For a ridiculously handy reference, you can tear it out of the book and keep it by your

side while you're building your pages.

Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive You'll find this section near the back of the book. It's a glossary of Internet, World

Wide Web, and HTML terms that should help you out if you come across a word or phrase that furrows your brow.

HTML Codes for Cool Characters This section lists many of the HTML codes you can use to incorporate characters such as £,

∀, and ~ in your Web page. (This is all explained in more detail in Chapter 5.)

HTML Disk The book's major bonus is the disk that's glued onto the back cover. This little plastic frisbee contains tons of

HTML-related knickknacks, including all the HTML examples I use in the book, some sample Web pages, an HTML editor,

graphics and sounds you can put in your Web page, and lots more.

Also, as you're trudging through the book, look for the following features that point out important info:

By the Way…

These boxes contain notes, tips, warnings, and asides that provide you with interesting and useful

(at least theoretically!) nuggets of HTML lore.

Technical Twaddle

This "Techno Talk" icon points out technical information you can use to impress your friends

(and then forget five minutes later).

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