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text, boldface, 45
helping readers navigate with, 44
with CSS, 66
text alignment, adjusting with CSS, 74–75
text decorations, producing with CSS, 75
text editor, 27, 104
using to create Web pages, 28–30
text styles, HTML, 43. See also Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS)
combining, 47, 48
in CSS, 72–76
history of, 44
meanings of, 44
specifying, with CSS, 66–67
<textarea> (text input box) tag, 198, 202–203
text-based advertisements, 367–369
TextEdit, 27. See also text editor
<th> (table head) tag, 163–164
thumbnail images, 142
tiling background images, using CSS for, 137
time, current
obtaining using JavaScript, 248–251
obtaining using Perl, 212
<title> (document title) tag, 34–35
<tr> (table row) tag, 160
trademark character, creating with CSS, 75
transparent GIF, 123, 147–148

resolution of, 108
spaces within, 16
special characters in, 16–17
special URLs, 17
for Telnet, 17
for Usenet groups, 14, 18
for Web pages (hypertext), 18–19
underlined text, 46
with CSS, 75
unrecognized HTML tags, 22–23
URI, 337
URL (Uniform Resource Locator), 7)
absolute, 108
case sensitivity of, 16
for e-mail, 17
examples of, 13–14
format of, 13–14, 17
for FTP, 13, 14
fully qualified, 94, 108
interpretation of relative, 108–109
invention of, 12–13
limitations of, 16
port numbers in, 15
purpose of, 12
relative, 94, 108–109, 112
resolution of, 108
spaces within, 16
special characters in, 16–17
special URLs, 17
for Telnet, 17

at the Yahoo! Web site, 324, 330, 332
Usenet newsgroups
accessing, 18
special URL format for, 14, 18
user’s Web browser, ascertaining, 213, 241–243
validation
of CSS style sheets, 344–347
of HTML form data, 251–253
of HTML pages, 337–341
medallions, 340–341
of RSS feeds, 305–306
of WML pages, 347–349
of XHTML pages, 341–344
<var> (variable) tag, 53
video clips in Web pages, 154
video files
MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group), 154
QuickTime, 154
view, of Web page, 365. See also advertisements on
Web pages
Visual Basic Script (VBScript), 255–256
W
WAP Forum, the, 349
WAV files, 153
Web browser(s), 8
ascertaining the user’s, 213, 241–243
Camino, 8
compatibility of (with Web site), 213, 241–243
cookies, 333–334
default presentation settings of, 85

DOCTYPE declaration in, 336
and the Document Object Model (DOM), 244
dynamically generated by CGI scripts,
210–211
example of, 54
finding/creating images for, 140–147
font styles in, 49–52
foreign characters (diacritical marks) in, 96–98
forms in, basics of, 196–203
frames in, basics of, 181–183
with graphics, design philosophies for, 127
image-mapped graphics in, 149–153
including copyrighted material in, 143, 146,
147, 153
including images in, 123–127
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integration of links and text in, 107
kerning in, using CSS, 72
keyboard shortcuts in, 230
leading in, adjusting with CSS, 73–74
letter spacing in, adjusting with CSS, 72
line spacing in, adjusting with CSS, 73–74
links in, 103–108, 114–119
logical styles for, 52

banner, 364–366
charges for placing, 365, 367
interstitial, 222
text-based, 367–369
Web pages, dynamically generated
examples of, 211–213, 321–322
and security issues, 216
using CGI scripts, 210–211
using server-side includes, 316
Web rings, 363–364
Web servers, 18–19
Web site access lists
for restricting visibility of directories, 313–316
for restricting Web crawlers and robots,
358–360
Web site feedback, 198–200
Web site planning
announcing your Web page, 378
building pages in, 375–376
conceptualization for, 373–375
loading files onto Web and, 377–378
testing and, 377
Web site usability rules followed or violated by
AOL, 324
Firstgov.gov, 326–327
Google, 324
Intuitive Systems, 331
MSN, 324
Open Directory Project, 332
U.S. Internal Revenue Service, 324, 326

Index
Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), 366
Intuitive Systems (intuitive.com), 311–313
for Java, 257
of Jill Whalen, 369
of Karen Kenworthy, 333
Lycos, 362–363
for Macromedia Flash, 259
navigating, 44, 117, 330–333
Open Directory Project, 361
organizing files of a, 109–112, 113, 309–313
Paint Shop Pro, 123, 140
for Perl, 216
for the PICS system, 358
protecting files of a, 313–316
publicizing, 369
Real Corporation, 154
for RSS, 306
for RSS validation, 305
on scanners and scanning, 143
The Shock Zone, 146
testing, 23, 31–32, 39, 85, 117, 377–378
text-based advertisements on, 367–369
for this book, 9, 76
usability of, factors influencing, 323–330
using server-side includes to organize,
316–321
for video files and software, 154–155
for VBScript, 256
for WAP and WML, 349

information services available on, 5–8
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) validation
of CSS style sheets, 344–347
of HTML pages, 337–341
medallions, 340–341
of XHTML pages, 341–344
WWW. See World Wide Web
X
XHTML
and HTML, 41
lowercasing of tags in, 25, 41
unpaired tags in, formatting of 25, 41
XML (eXtensible Markup Language), 41
and RSS, 301, 303
XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations), 258–259
Y
Yahoo!, 361
Z
z-index (depth value) attribute (of CSS container),
286–290