Essential Dynamic HTML fast

Essential Dynamic HTML fast
provides a step-by-step approach to discovering DHTML and its techniques - everything you need to know from standard HTML tags to Layers and DOM (Document Object Model). You' ll learn everything you need to know to build a dynamic web site - starting from choosing which font to use, to using dynamic positioning and contents, and how to incorporate audio, video and animation, and Scripting.


Start with basic HTML tags. See what makes a site interactive. Learn about multimedia effects. Discover Cascade Style Sheets (CSS): dynamic web pages. Understand Document Object Model (DOM) and layers. And learn how to manage dynamic sites: from layout to after design.


Written in the inimitable style of the Essentials series, this book tells you everything you need to know to get your first project up and running, with lots of tips on how to manage a dynamic site and resourceful URL addresses.

1 Introduction. - Who is this book for? . - Client/Server model. - HTML tags. - Hands-on HTML. - Assisting HTML editors. - MS HTML tools (MS Word, MS Publisher). - Netscape Composer. - MS FrontPage. - Browsers. - What you need to use this book. - 2 Getting Started. - HTML template: blank page. - General HTML tags. - Font tags. - Using headers. - Alignment tags. - First web page. - 3 Organising Your Data. - Lists. - Unordered lists. - Ordered lists. - Creating tables. - Links and hypertext. - First web site. - 4 Frames. - What are frames? . - Frameset tag. - Storyboarding. - Frame tag. - Target attribute. - Noframe tag and old browsers. - First web site. - 5 Interactive Sites. - What does interactive mean? . - Why interactive? . - Ways to build an interactive site. - 6 Forms. - Form tag. - Select tag and option tag. - Input tag. - Method and Action attributes of form tag. - CGI scripting. - 7 Colour and Images. - Background colours. - Font colours. - Images. - Background images. - IMG tag. - Image link. - Using images navigation toolbar. - Map image. - Creating a map image. - 8 Multimedia Effects. - File formats. - Sound. - Video. - DYNSRC attribute. - Animation. - MARQUEE tag. - 3D images and virtual reality. - Plug-ins. - EMBED tag. - BGSOUND tag. - 9 Background and Layout. - Examples of layout from existing sites. - Overview planning. - Background planning. - Front elements. - Font and structure. - Multimedia. - Links. - Find and collect resources. - Overall presentation and web publishing. - 10 Dynamic HTML and Style Sheets. - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). - Layers. - Document Object Model (DOM). - Dynamic positioning. - Dynamic contents. - Scripting. - Data binding. - Downloadable fonts. - Technology and techniques. - Using the head of the page. - 11 Cascading Style Sheets. - STYLE tag. - STYLE attribute within the BODY tag. - External style sheets. - Applying style. - BLOCKQUOTE tag. - DIV tag. - SPAN tag. - 12 Layars. - Defining layers. - Absolute and relative positioning. - LAYER tag. - ILAYER tag. - CSS layers. - NOLAYER tag. - 13 Document Object Model (DOM). - Object, properties and methods. - Events and event handling. - Display in a new window. - OBJECT tag. - Using DOM with JavaScript. - Using DOM in CSS and layers. - 14 Dynamic Positioning. - Relative vs. absolute positioning. - Alternative forms of syntax. - Using CSS in dynamic positioning. - Using the LAYER/ILAYER tags in dynamic positioning. - Try to catch the ship. - 15 Dynamic Contents. - Dynamic images using DOM. - 16 Managing a Dynamic Site. - Design issues. - Debugging a DHTML site. - Publishing a site. - Managing a DHTML site. - 17 Scripting. - SCRIPT tag. - APPLET tag. - JavaScript and JScript. - VBScript. - Perl script. - CGI scripting. - Basics of JavaScript. - JavaScript functions. - Using JavaScript. - 18 What is Next? . - Data binding. - Tabular Data Control. - JDBC Data Provider. - Microsoft Remote Data Services. - Downloadable fonts. - What is next? . - Appendix A: Interesting Web Sites to Explore. - Business and finance. - Computer general. - HTML. - Web reference. - Tools. - Java and JavaScript. - Browsers and Internet software companies. - Search engines and free email addresses. - Lifestyle. - International news. - Humour. - Appendix B: HTML Tags. - Basic HTML tags. - Basic DHTML tags.