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Download from Wow! eBook HTML & XHTML DeMYSTiFieD® This page intentionally left blank About the Author Lee Cottrell started programming in 1982 Since this time, he has worked in many different programming languages Lee has a Master of Science degree in information science from the University of Pittsburgh Currently, Lee is the Program Manager for Computer Programming and Computer Networking programs at Bradford School in Pittsburgh His teaching duties include networking, hardware, programming, database design, and web development Lee also develops and writes curriculum for Bradford Schools nationwide During his free time, Lee coaches baseball, softball, and soccer for his community athletic organization About the Technical Editor Les Graves has been a technology instructor at a variety of schools for 10 years teaching programming, including HTML, and networking He also has 17 years of corporate business and programming experience He received his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and his Masters in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix He resides in Pittsburgh, PA Les has had the privilege of working side by side as a technology instructor at Bradford School with the author, Lee Cottrell, and can attest to what an awesome instructor Lee is with great depth of experience and passion for his students’ success 374 H T M L & XHTML De mys tified tag, 233 scripts, 232 concatenation, 242 correcting errors, 233–235 creating script files, 242–246 inline scripts, 233, 237–239 using existing scripts, 246–249 using in the head, 239–242 variables, 236–237 scrolling option, 318 tag, 175–176 Simpletext, 8–9 site navigation See navigation size property, 164–165 sound embedding sounds, 281–283 overview, 280–281 playing sounds on demand, 283–285 tag, 200–201 spanning rows and columns, 134–144 Sponsored Search, 340–341 src attribute, 167 strict doctype, 18 See also doctype style attribute (CSS), 41–42 style documents, 97–99 subdomains, 329 See also domain names suffixes See top-level domains SWF files, 286 See also Flash T tag, 125 tables attributes, 126, 145–147 border properties, 149 borders, 125 cells, 124 cellspacing and cellpadding, 146–147 formatting with CSS, 147–155 overview, 124–129 practice creating, 129–134 spanning rows and columns, 134–144 Taco HTML, tag-level classes, 150, 198–199 tags, tag, 34–35 attributes of, 19–20, 28–29, 35–37 tag, 30–31 tag, 127–129 and case, 29 tag, 220 closing, 29 and CSS, 43 tag, 116 tag, 201–204 tag, 116 tag, 116 tag, 282 tag, 183 tag, 160–161 tag, 305–307 tag, 304–307 tags, 32–34 tag, 32 tag, 57, 93 tag, 163 tag, 182 lang tags, 20 tag, 183

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tag, 111 Uniform Resource Locators See URLs unordered lists, 105, 110–115 URLs, U.S Department of Defense, V validation, 44–46 variables, 236–237 video embedding, 286–291 and HTML 5, 299–300 See also Flash; movies W W3C, 5, 282 WAV files, 280–281 Wayback Machine, web browsers, 11 clearing cookies, 270 Microsoft Internet Explorer, 12, 13 Mozilla Firefox, 12, 13 Safari, 13 web pages automatically publishing your page, 339 components of, 18–21 opening in a browser, 21 publishing your page, 337–339 using CSS on a web page, 40–43 well-formed, web sites advertising your web site, 339–341 creation checklist, 28 folder structure, 23–24 index page, 24 practice creating a web site, 24–28 See also domain hosting; domain names WebM Transcodes, 300 white space, 30 width attribute, 145–146, 168 World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, 5, 282 WWW See World Wide Web WYSIWYG editors, 10 Adobe Dreamweaver, 10–11 Microsoft Expression Web, 11 X XHTML overview, 5–6 scrolling option, 318 Y Yahoo!, Sponsored Search, 340–341 YouTube, 291 embedding YouTube videos, 293–295 See also movies 375 ...Download from Wow! eBook HTML & XHTML DeMYSTiFieD? ? This page intentionally left blank About the Author Lee Cottrell started programming... including HTML, and networking He also has 17 years of corporate business and programming experience He received his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and his... with the author, Lee Cottrell, and can attest to what an awesome instructor Lee is with great depth of experience and passion for his students’ success 374 H T M L & XHTML De mys tified