Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii

Part I: The Basics of Building Web Pages and Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Chapter 1: Planning Your Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2: Promoting Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 3: Basic HTML Building Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 4: Organizing Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 5: Putting It on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Part II: Enhancing Web Pages with Fonts, Images,  and Color . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 6: Getting Fancy with Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Chapter 7: Finding Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 8: Blending Images into Your Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Chapter 9: Creating and Enhancing Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Chapter 10: Adding Color Throughout Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Part III: Designing Web Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Chapter 11: Harnessing the Power of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Chapter 12: Organizing Your Site with Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
Chapter 13: Styling Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
Chapter 14: Positioning Elements with DIVs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Part IV: Adding Interactivity With Flash, Forms,and Other Tools . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Chapter 15: Getting Input with Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Chapter 16: Making Dynamic Pages with Javascript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365
Chapter 17: Navigating Your Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Chapter 18: Adding Dynamic Page Elements with DHTML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
Chapter 19: Animating with Macromedia Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449
Chapter 20: Adding Multimedia and Other Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .487
Chapter 21: Blogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .507

Part V: Cashing In on E-Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Chapter 22: Setting Up Your Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .529
Chapter 23: Selling on eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Chapter 24: Getting Paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Chapter 25: Using Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Chapter 26: Covering All the Bases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .595

Part VI: Maintaining and Updating Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
Chapter 27: Maintaining Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .613
Chapter 28: Updating Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Chapter 29: Designing with XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Chapter 30: Making Your Site Mobile with WAP/WML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Part VII: Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .679
Appendix A: HTML 4.01 Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .681
Appendix B: XHTML 1.0, Second Edition Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .701
Appendix C: XML 1.0, Third Edition Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .727
Appendix D: WML 2.0 Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
Appendix E: Javascript Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .869
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883

 

About the Authors:

David A. Crowder has authored o coauthored more than 20 books, including popular bestsellers such as Building a Web Site For Dummies and Cliffs Notes Getting on the Internet. He was selling hypertext systems back in the days when you had to explain to people what the word meant. He has been involved in the online community since its inception and is the recipient of several awards for his work, including the NetGuide Magazine Gold Site Award. When he is not writing, he spends his time with his wife Angela, wandering through villages in the Andes or frolicking in the Caribbean Surf.

Andrew Bailey was born in England where he studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. He worked for Cray Research as as systems analyst from 1989 to 1992. Then he moved to Colombia, South America. At the present moment he is the Head of Investigation in Computer Sciences at the San Buena Ventura University in Medellín where he also teaches Distributed Computing and the Design of Web Applications.
He owns HazloRealidad.com, a company dedicated to the design and hosting of Web sites and the development of custom-built software based on open standards and freely licensed or open source software. HazloRealidad is Spanish for "make it real," which according to Andrew, "refers to making your dreams come true, well at least the ones related to software".