HTML3 Manual of Style

Writing Documents for the World Wide Web
in HyperText Markup Language

by Larry Aronson

Published by Ziff-Davis Press, ISBN 1-56276-352-0

The revised edition of HTML Manual of Style
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The new edition has more than 60 pages of addtional material covering advanced design techniques and interactive applications. It covers HTML elements from the HTML Working Group's proposed specification for HTML level 3.0 plus new extensions to the language supported by Netscape 2.0 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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Contents

Chapter 1   What is HTML

    HTML: A standard Generalized Markup Language
    Hypertext and Hypermedia
    Mosaic, the world Wide Web, and the Internet


Chapter 2   The Language

    Overview
    Page Structure
        HTML Elements
        Tag Syntax 
    Structure Tags
        Headings
        Common Attributes
        Paragraphs
        Block Elements
        Lists
        Tables
    Styles
    Anchors and Links
    Inline Images
    Forms
    

Chapter 3   Elements of Style

    General Principles
    Development Approaches
    Good WWW Sytle
    Common Mistakes
    

Chapter 4   Tutorials

    Creating a Home Page
    A GuestBook Form Application
    Converting an Existing Document


Chapter 5   Advanced Design

    Page Backgrounds
    Style Sheets
    More on Images
        Wrap-around text
        Figures
    Imagemaps 
    Multimedia
    
       
Chapter 6   Interactivity

    CGI -- Common Gateway Interface
    Server-side Includes
    Dynamic Documents
        Client-Pull
        Server-Push 
    HTTP Cookies
    Applets -- Java 
    

Chapter 7   Real World Examples

    1. A Personal Home Page
    2. A Tutorial Page
    3. A Small Organization's Home Page
    4. A Large Organization's Home Page
    5. An Internet Resources Page
    6. A Subject Catalog


APPENDIX

A. HTML Quick Reference
   Style Markup
   Structural Markup
   Character Entities

C. Resources
   General Guides to Cyberspace
   The World Wide Web
   WWW Search Services
   HTML
   Web Development

INDEX  

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Last Updated: 96/03/25