INTRODUCTION
 CHAPTER 1 Web Basics and Overview
  1.1 About Networking
  1.2 The Internet
  1.3 The Domain Name System
  1.4 The Web
  1.5 Content Types
  1.6 Putting Information on the Web
  1.7 What Is HTML?
  1.8 Web Hosting
  1.9 Domain Registration
  1.10 What Are Name Servers?
  1.11 Looking Up Host Information
  1.12 The Web Development Process
  1.13 Dynamic Generation of Web Pages
  1.14 HTTP Briefly
  1.15 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 2 Creating Web Pages: XHTML
  2.1 HTML Basics
  2.2 Creating Your First Web Page
  2.3 Elements and Entities
  2.4 A Brief History of HTML
  2.5 XHTML Syntax
  2.6 Core Attributes
  2.7 Headings and Paragraphs
  2.8 White Space and Line Wrapping
  2.9 inline Elements
  2.10 Controlling Presentation Styles
  2.11 Length Units
  2.12 Colors
  2.13 Text Fonts
  2.14 Lists
  2.15 List Styles
  2.16 Hyperlinks
  2.17 Images
  2.18 Positioning Inline Images
  2.19 Image Maps
  2.20 Editing HTML
  2.21 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 3 Advanced XHTML
  3.1 Character Encoding
  3.2 Special Symbols and HTML Entities
  3.3 Tables
  3.4 Cell Content Alignment
  3.5 Displaying Tables
  3.6 Formatting Tables
  3.7 Positioning Tables
  3.8 Table Width and Height
  3.9 Grouping Rows and Columns
  3.10 Nesting Tables
  3.11 Using Tables for Page Layout
  3.12 Pagewide Style with body
  3.13 Head Elements
  3.14 Search Engine Ready Pages
  3.15 Forwarding Pages
  3.16 Portable Pages
  3.17 Web Site Icons
  3.18 Frames
  3.19 Server-Side Includes
  3.20 Internationalization
  3.21 Common Page Errors
  3.22 Page Checking and Validation
  3.23 For More Information
  3.24 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 4 Design Basics
  4.1 What Is Design?
  4.2 Design and Perception
  4.3 Brief History of Design on the Web
  4.4 Elements of Design
  4.5 Unity and Variety
  4.6 Emphasis, Focal Point, and Hierarchy
  4.7 Contrast
  4.8 Visual Balance
  4.9 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 5 Information Architecture, Page Layout, and Typography
  5.1 Layout Overview
  5.2 Web Site Architectures
  5.3 Information Architecture
  5.4 IA Case Study: CVB
  5.5 Client Identity
  5.6 Organizational Framework
  5.7 Typography Basics
  5.8 Type Families
  5.9 Choosing Type
  5.10 Spacing Type
  5.11 Reading Type on the Web
  5.12 Layout Grids
  5.13 Web Page Layout Grids
  5.14 Designing Layout Grid Systems
  5.15 Grids on the Web: A Critique
  5.16 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 6 Controlling Page Style: Cascading Style Sheets
  6.1 What Is CSS?
  6.2 Overall Styling of a Page
  6.3 Centering and Indenting
  6.4 Selectors
  6.5 Hyperlink Styles
  6.6 Conflicting Rules
  6.7 Style Properties
  6.8 A Navigation Bar
  6.9 Page Formatting Model
  6.10 Setting Margin, Border, and Padding
  6.11 Navbar Using Borders
  6.12 Border Properties
  6.13 Styled Buttons
  6.14 Formatting Text
  6.15 Elastic Banners
  6.16 Rollover Navigation Bars
  6.17 Piecing Images Together
  6.18 Background Images
  6.19 List and Other Style Properties
  6.20 Positioning
  6.21 Printer-Friendly Pages
  6.22 CSS and Page Layout
  6.23 The Cascade
  6.24 For More Information
  6.25 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 7 Color and Graphics
  7.1 A Historical Note on Color Theory
  7.2 The Color Wheel
  7.3 Color Harmony
  7.4 Color Contrast
  7.5 Color for the Web
  7.6 The Meaning of Color
  7.7 Color and Readability
  7.8 Color on Computers
  7.9 What Is Gamma?
  7.10 Color Models and Color Encoding
  7.11 Color Palettes
  7.12 Image Encoding Formats
  7.13 Web Samples Color Critique
  7.14 Color Application
  7.15 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 8 Forms and Form Processing
  8.1 What Is a Form?
  8.2 A Historical Note
  8.3 Form Basics
  8.4 Text Input
  8.5 User Selections
  8.6 Submit Buttons
  8.7 File Uploading
  8.8 Other input Elements
  8.9 Tabbing Order
  8.10 Form Layout
  8.11 HTTP Basics
  8.12 HTTP Message Format
  8.13 CGI Overview
  8.14 Outline of a CGI Program
  8.15 Getting Started with CGI Programming
  8.16 Deploying CGI Programs
  8.17 CGI Example: Club Membership
  8.18 CGI Environment Variables
  8.19 Data Received on the Server Side
  8.20 Content Length
  8.21 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 9 Client-Side Scripting: JavaScript
  9.1 Getting Started
  9.2 Embedding JavaScript in a Web Page
  9.3 A Brief History of JavaScript
  9.4 Rollovers
  9.5 Preloading Images
  9.6 Active Navigation Bars
  9.7 Making Comparisons
  9.8 Built-in Functions
  9.9 Matching Patterns
  9.10 Patterns
  9.11 JavaScript Objects
  9.12 Windows
  9.13 Creating User Interactions
  9.14 A Conversion Calculator
  9.15 Form Checking
  9.16 Menu Actions
  9.17 Events and Event Objects
  9.18 Scrolling Text
  9.19 Testing and Debugging
  9.20 For More Information
  9.21 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 10 Document Object Model and Dynamic HTML
  10.1 What Is DOM?
  10.2 A Demonstration
  10.3 DOM History and Architecture
  10.4 Browser Support of DOM
  10.5 DOM API Overview
  10.6 Getting Started with DOM
  10.7 The DOM Node Interface
  10.8 DOM Tree Depth-First Traversal
  10.9 The DOM HTMLElement Interface
  10.10 HTMLBlement Fields and Methods
  10.11 A Guided Form
  10.12 Fade-in Headlines
  10.13 Mouse Tracking
  10.14 The DOM HMDocument Interface
  10.15 Generating New Content
  10.16 A Smart Form
  10.17 Reordering Rows in Tables
  10.18 A Tic-Tac-Toe Game
  10.19 Windows and Frames
  10.20 A Code Experimenter
  10.21 DHTML Access to Web Services
  10.22 For More Information
  10.23 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 11 Graphics and Site Production
  11.1 Graphics for the Web: Using Photoshop
  11.2 Cropping and Scanning
  11.3 Types of Artwork
  11.4 Tools for Web Graphics: A Brief Overview
  11.5 Color Adjustments
  11.6 Typical Image Processing Tasks
  11.7 Designer-Programmer Cooperation
  11.8 From Layout Design to HTML Code
  11.9 Guide on Rules and Layout Table
  11.10 Rollover Navigation Bars
  11.11 Creating CSS in Dreamweaver
  11.12 Page Template Production
  11.13 Saving Original Files and Working Graphics
  11.14 Site Deployment
  11.15 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 12 Audio and Video
  12.1 A Brief History of Audio and Video on the Web
  12.2 Designing Multimedia
  12.3 Audio on the Web
  12.4 Sampling and Quantization
  12.5 Audio Compression and File Formats
  12.6 What Is MP3?
  12.7 Sound In Web Pages
  12.8 Serving Up MP3
  12.9 How to Obtain,Produce,and Edit Audio
  12.10 Video on the Web
  12.11 Digital Video Compression
  12.12 Video in Web Pages
  12.13 Video Streaming
  12.14 How to Obtain, Produce, and Edit Video
  12.15 Introduction to Flash
  12.16 Flash Overview
  12.17 Publishing Flash Movies
  12.18 Flash Movie Example
  12.19 Summary
  Exercises
 CHAPTER 13 Perl and Common Gateway Interface Programming
  13.1 What Is Perl?
  13.2 A Brief History of Perl
  13.3 Perl Programming ABC
  13.4 Perl Variables
  13.5 Arithmetic and String Operators
  13.6 True or False
  13.7 Automatic Data Context
  13.8 Conditional Statements
  13.9 Perl VO
  13.10 Perl iterations
  13.11 Defining Functions
  13.12 A Form To Mail Program
  13.13 Pattern Matching in Perl
  13.14 Substitutions
  13.15 Simple Page Search
  13.16 Perl Built-in Functions
  13.17 Handling Passwords
  13.18 Taint Mode
  13.19 The Perl CGI Module
  13.20 Handling File Uploading
  13.21 Testing and Debugging Scripts
  13.22 Session Control
  13.23 Sessions under HTTP
  13.24 What Is a Cookie?
  13.25 Cookies in CGI Programs
  13.26 Cookie Example
  13.27 Summary
  Exercises
 PHOTOS
 INDEX