The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Contents at a Glance......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 14
How to Use This Book......Page 15
Extras......Page 16
Special Thanks to the Technical Reviewer......Page 17
Trademarks......Page 18
Part 1: Building a Website with Your Bare Hands......Page 20
4 Making Your Website More Social......Page 104
E-Mail Me!......Page 105
What Are You Thinking?: Feedback......Page 107
Creating a Form......Page 108
Sending the Form: The Submit Button......Page 109
Harvesting Text with Text Boxes......Page 111
Harvesting Multiline Text with Text Areas......Page 114
Yes or No? Using Check Boxes......Page 116
Pick One: Using Radio Buttons......Page 118
Selecting Data from Lists......Page 120
Getting the Data Delivered to Your Door......Page 122
Discuss: Implementing Forums......Page 125
3 Accessorizing Your Site......Page 82
Making Your Point with Bulleted Lists......Page 83
Customizing the Bullet Style......Page 84
Numbered Lists: Easy as One, Two, Three......Page 87
Using a Different Numbering Style......Page 90
Defining Definition Lists......Page 92
Feeding Your Site: Adding a News Feed......Page 94
Generating Feed Headlines Using NewsGator......Page 96
Generating Feed Code Using FeedBurner......Page 99
Adding a Weather Module to Your Site......Page 100
Personalizing Your Site with a Favicon......Page 101
1 Building Blocks: The Basic Tags......Page 22
Firing Up a New Text File......Page 23
Saving HTML Files......Page 24
Browsing the Results......Page 25
Getting the Hang of HTML......Page 26
Laying the Foundation: A Bare-Bones Web Page......Page 27
Adding a Title......Page 29
Giving ’Em Something to Read: Adding Text......Page 30
Adding Paragraphs......Page 31
Adding Headings......Page 32
Accessorizing: Displaying Special Characters......Page 34
Giving ’Em Something to See: Adding Images......Page 36
Converting Graphics to GIF or JPEG......Page 37
Adding an Image to Your Page......Page 38
Wrapping Text Around an Image......Page 39
Giving ’Em Something to Click: Adding Links......Page 41
Some Basic Text Formatting Tags......Page 42
Changing the Font Size......Page 43
Changing the Font Family......Page 45
Working With Colors......Page 47
Coloring the Page Background......Page 49
2 Designing Your Site with Tables......Page 52
Web Woodworking: How to Build a Table......Page 53
Starting Easy: Building a One-Row Table......Page 54
Tacking On More Rows......Page 56
Adding a Row of Headers......Page 57
Using Border Styles......Page 58
Aligning Text Inside Cells......Page 62
Spanning Text Across Rows or Columns......Page 65
More Table Tidbits......Page 67
Designing With Tables: The Big Table Picture......Page 68
Creating a Site with a Margin......Page 69
Creating a Site with a Header and Footer......Page 74
Creating a Three-Column Site......Page 79
Part 2: Designing Your Website......Page 128
5 The Elements of Good Site Design......Page 130
Site Design Begins with Good Content......Page 131
Using Style Sheets to Design Your Site......Page 134
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