| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| HTML Basics | p. xxii |
| Downloading and Installing the Personal Web Server | p. 16 |
| Managing the Personal Web Server and Publishing Your Web Pages | p. 18 |
| Describing Web Page Contents with a Title | p. 21 |
| Identifying Web Documents Using the Document Type Definition | p. 23 |
| Inserting Comments into a Web Document | p. 24 |
| Specifying the Typeface for Web Page Text | p. 26 |
| Controlling the Flow of Text with Paragraph and Line Break Tags | p. 27 |
| Changing the Size of Text Using Heading Level Tags and the Font Tag size Attribute | p. 32 |
| Changing the Color of Text in an HTML Document | p. 33 |
| Adding Graphics to a Web Page Using a Basic [left angle bracket]img[right angle bracket] Tag | p. 35 |
| Changing the Alignment of Text and Graphics | p. 37 |
| Adding a Hypertext Link to a Web Page | p. 40 |
| Enhancing Individual Letters and Words Using Character Formatting Tags | p. 41 |
| Using Symbols and Special Characters in an HTML Document | p. 42 |
| Using Horizontal Rules to Organize Web Content | p. 44 |
| Using Blockquote Tags to Control Left and Right Text Margins | p. 47 |
| Creating Ordered and Unordered Lists | p. 48 |
| Creating Nested Lists | p. 51 |
| Creating Definition Listings | p. 52 |
| Using Preformatted Text Tags to Control the Display of Web Content | p. 54 |
| Displaying a Navigation Menu Within a Web Page Frame | p. 56 |
| Displaying Multiple Web Pages Onscreen at the Same Time | p. 57 |
| HTML Tables | p. 62 |
| Creating a Table with Cells that Span Multiple Columns or Multiple Rows | p. 72 |
| Working with Table and Cell Border Widths | p. 75 |
| Working with Table and Cell Border Colors | p. 76 |
| Working with Background Images and Colors | p. 78 |
| Determining a Color Attribute's Value | p. 81 |
| Working with Cell Padding and Cell Spacing | p. 83 |
| Setting Table Dimensions Using Relative or Absolute Values | p. 84 |
| Setting Cell Dimensions Using Relative or Absolute Values | p. 85 |
| Aligning Cell Content Horizontally and Vertically | p. 86 |
| Aligning a Table on a Web Page | p. 89 |
| Controlling the Width and Height of a Cell by Inserting a Transparent GIF | p. 89 |
| Wrapping Text Around an Image | p. 91 |
| Displaying a Gallery of Thumbnails Within a Table | p. 93 |
| Creating Bullets and Lists with Tables and Graphics | p. 96 |
| Creating a Navigation Sidebar Using a Table | p. 97 |
| Adding Images and Links to Table Cells | p. 98 |
| Nesting Tables to Control Borders on a Web Page | p. 99 |
| Approximating an Image Map by Placing Pieces of an Image Within a Table | p. 100 |
| Slicing a Graphic Image into Table Cells to Create a Quick-Loading Web Graphic | p. 102 |
| Reducing the Amount of Time a Web Browser Spends Drawing a Table | p. 103 |
| Simulating Web Page Frames Using a Table | p. 104 |
| Focusing the Viewer's Attention with Cell Background Colors | p. 107 |
| Aligning Web Page Content Visually with Visible Table Borders | p. 108 |
| Controlling Gutter Size and Margin Width of Text on a Web Page | p. 110 |
| HTML Forms | p. 112 |
| Creating a Single-Line Input Field on a Form | p. 119 |
| Creating a Multiline Input Field on a Form | p. 120 |
| Validating Text Element Data Prior to Submitting Form Results | p. 122 |
| Placing Check Boxes on a Form | p. 124 |
| Placing Radio Buttons on a Form | p. 126 |
| Validating Radio Button Group Selections Prior to Submitting Form Results | p. 128 |
| Placing a Drop-Down List (Selection Menu) on a Form | p. 129 |
| Verifying the Visitor Has Made a Selection List Choice Prior to Submitting Form Results | p. 132 |
| Changing the Items Available on a Selection List Based on Visitor Supplied Information | p. 134 |
| Sending All Selection List Values to the Web Server Through a Hidden Field | p. 136 |
| Adding a Reset Button to a Form | p. 138 |
| Preventing a Visitor from Clearing Form Elements Accidentally | p. 139 |
| Adding a Submit Button to a Form | p. 140 |
| Replacing the Standard Submit and Reset Buttons on a Form with Other Graphics Images | p. 141 |
| Sending Form Results by E-Mail Without a CGI Script | p. 143 |
| Controlling the Layout of Form Elements and Text with HTML Tables | p. 145 |
| Creating a Shortcut Key for Form Navigation with a [left angle bracket]label[right angle bracket] Tag | p. 148 |
| Instructing the Web Browser to Execute a Form Validation Function with the onClick Attribute | p. 149 |
| Passing Values to the Web Server Through Hidden Fields | p. 151 |
| Hiding Visitor Input from View Within a Password Element | p. 152 |
| Adding a Generic Button Object to a Form | p. 153 |
| Enabling and Disabling Form Elements on-the-Fly | p. 154 |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | p. 158 |
| Applying Multiple CSS Rules to a Single Selector | p. 170 |
| Selecting a Typeface with the font-family Property | p. 172 |
| Specifying the Size of Text with the font-size Property | p. 174 |
| Creating Overlapping Text | p. 177 |
| Aligning Web Page Text | p. 179 |
| Controlling Margins and Line Height | p. 181 |
| Displaying Text Within Columns | p. 183 |
| Working with Borders | p. 186 |
| Indenting Paragraphs and Controlling Letter, Word, and Line Spacing | p. 188 |
| Offsetting Text with Initial Caps | p. 189 |
| Customizing the Appearance of Hyperlinks | p. 191 |
| Creating a Drop-Shadow Effect | p. 192 |
| Applying a Border Graphic | p. 194 |
| Positioning Background Images and Watermarks | p. 196 |
| Floating Images and Text | p. 199 |
| Customizing the Appearance of Lists | p. 201 |
| Creating Text and Image Effects with Filters | p. 203 |
| Aligning Labels with Form Elements and Adding Color to Forms | p. 206 |
| Displaying a Gallery of Thumbnails with Captions | p. 209 |
| Controlling the Cursor | p. 212 |
| Layering Web Page Elements | p. 214 |
| Sending Your Style Sheet Through a Validator | p. 216 |
| XHTML and Emerging Trends | p. 220 |
| Converting HTML to XHTML Using HTML Tidy | p. 233 |
| Selecting the Correct DOCTYPE for Your Web Page | p. 237 |
| Validating Your Web Page with an XHTML Validator | p. 238 |
| Setting the Text Size on an XHTML Web Page with Keywords | p. 242 |
| Grouping an XHTML Form's Selection List Items with the [left angle bracket]optgroup[right angle bracket] Tag | p. 245 |
| Adding Color to XHTML Tables with Cascading Style Sheet Rules | p. 247 |
| Embedding Fonts Within an XHTML Web Page with CSS Rules | p. 249 |
| Inserting on XHTML Page Within Another with an Inline Frame | p. 251 |
| Updating Multiple XHTML Page Inline Frames at Once | p. 255 |
| Changing XHTML Page Appearance Based on Media Type | p. 257 |
| Controlling the Way the Web Browser Prints an XHTML Web Page | p. 261 |
| Graphics | p. 264 |
| Working with Cross-Platform Issues When Creating Graphics Images for the Web | p. 274 |
| Specifying Image Dimensions Within an Image Tag | p. 277 |
| Working with the alt Attribute and Text-Only Viewers | p. 278 |
| Creating a Tool Tip by Inserting a title Attribute in an Image Tag | p. 281 |
| Compressing Photographs into a JPEG File | p. 283 |
| Saving Clip Art and Text to a GIF-Formatted File | p. 286 |
| Making Images Appear to Load Faster | p. 288 |
| Working with the PNG-8 and PNG-24 File Formats | p. 290 |
| Converting Graphics into Web Images with Image-Editing Programs | p. 291 |
| Creating Web-Friendly Graphics Images on Your Scanner | p. 292 |
| Creating Colorful Horizontal Rules | p. 294 |
| Retrieving a Fast-Loading "Teaser" Image with the lowsrc Attribute | p. 296 |
| Ensuring Accurate Color Presentation with the Web-Safe Color Palette | p. 298 |
| Creating Graphical Hyperlink Anchors | p. 300 |
| Creating Tiled Backgrounds from Graphics Images | p. 301 |
| Creating Transparency in a GIF Image | p. 304 |
| Retrieving Full-Size Images after Clicking on Thumbnails | p. 307 |
| Preloading and Caching Images Behind the Scenes | p. 309 |
| Expanding the Web-Safe Color Palette with Dithering Techniques | p. 311 |
| Smoothing the Edges of Text Converted into a Graphic Through Anti-Aliasing | p. 313 |
| Animation, Sound, and Video | p. 316 |
| Creating a GIF Animation from Scratch | p. 334 |
| Controlling GIF Animation Th. ough Internal Settings | p. 336 |
| Creating a Banner Ad Using GIF Animation | p. 338 |
| Creating Smooth Transitions Between GIF Animation Frames Using Tweening | p. 341 |
| Incorporating a Completed Flash Splash Screen into a Web Site | p. 342 |
| Creating a Flash Movie from Scratch | p. 345 |
| Building Text-Based Animations Using FlaX | p. 348 |
| Broadcasting Streaming Audio and Video | p. 348 |
| Creating Your Own Streaming Media | p. 351 |
| Creating a Page that Features a Web Cam | p. 352 |
| Integrating Video and Audio into a Web Site Using SMIL (Smile) | p. 354 |
| JavaScript | p. 358 |
| Handling Older Browsers that Do Not Support Scripts | p. 370 |
| Storing Multiple Values in One Variable by Using JavaScript Arrays | p. 371 |
| Letting a Script Make Decisions and Process Accordingly | p. 372 |
| Making Decisions Based on Two or More Conditions | p. 374 |
| Executing Code When a Condition Is Not True | p. 375 |
| Repeating Statements a Specific Number of Times | p. 376 |
| Repeating Statements While a Condition Is True | p. 377 |
| Responding to JavaScript Events | p. 378 |
| Executing JavaScript Statements Within the Body of a Web Page | p. 380 |
| Calling a User-Defined JavaScript Function | p. 382 |
| Calling JavaScript Functions Within an Event Handler | p. 384 |
| Looking Closer at JavaScript Event Handlers | p. 385 |
| Creating an Interactive Navigation Bar with a Mouseover Effect | p. 388 |
| Taking Advantage of the Scripting Object Model Arrays | p. 390 |
| Referring to Web Page Objects by Name Instead of Position Number | p. 392 |
| Leveraging the Contents of the Document Object | p. 393 |
| Taking Advantage of the JavaScript Images Array | p. 396 |
| Exploiting the JavaScript Links Array | p. 398 |
| Changing Web Page Colors Using JavaScript | p. 401 |
| Storing a Cookie on the Visitor's Hard Drive | p. 402 |
| Formatting Cookie Data Using JavaScript | p. 404 |
| Retrieving a Cookie Value from the Cookie File | p. 406 |
| Removing a Cookie from the Cookie File | p. 407 |
| Saving Time and Programming by Using Prewritten (External) Scripts | p. 409 |
| Creating an Animation Using the onLoad Event | p. 410 |
| Displaying Self-Changing Banners Using JavaScript | p. 411 |
| Pointing Hyperlinks to New Files On-the-Fly | p. 413 |
| Pre-caching Pictures to Reduce Image Display Time | p. 415 |
| Creating a Scrolling Marquee Using JavaScript | p. 416 |
| Java Applets and ActiveX Objects | p. 418 |
| Using an Applet to Create a Pop-Up Navigation Menu | p. 437 |
| Using an Applet to Animate a Text String | p. 440 |
| Using an Applet to Display and Print a Calendar for Any Year | p. 442 |
| Using an Applet to Display a Passage at Random from a Text File | p. 443 |
| Using an Applet to Create a Navigation Menu that Runs in Its Own Window | p. 444 |
| Using an Applet to Scroll the Contents of a File Vertically Within a Rectangular Box Onscreen | p. 448 |
| Using an Applet to Animate an Image Along a Sine Wave | p. 450 |
| Editing Java Source Code to Build a Custom Applet | p. 452 |
| Using the Microsoft Chat ActiveX Control to Add Internet Chat to a Web Page | p. 457 |
| Using Only ActiveX Objects with Internet Explorer | p. 460 |
| PHP4 | p. 464 |
| Sending Data from an HTML Form to a PHP Script | p. 484 |
| Using PHP to Parse and Extract Form Results | p. 488 |
| Using PHP to Send an E-Mail Message | p. 491 |
| Determining Whether a Visitor's Web Browser Accepts Cookies | p. 493 |
| Using PHP and a Disk File to Set Up Username/Password Access to a Web Site | p. 496 |
| Preventing Visitors from Linking Directly to Pages on Your Site | p. 498 |
| Using a PHP Session to Establish a Persistent Connection Between a Site Visitor and the Web Server | p. 499 |
| Creating a MySQL Database and Tables | p. 502 |
| Displaying SQL Query Results in an HTML Table on a Web Page | p. 504 |
| Using PHP to Generate a Random Password | p. 507 |
| Using PHP and MySQL to Set Up Username/Password Access to a Web Site | p. 509 |
| Preventing Visitors from Changing Variable Values with URL Arguments | p. 511 |
| Using PHP and MySQL to Track Where Visitors Go on Your Web Site | p. 512 |
| Determining the Visitor's IP Address for Web Page Requests Sent Through a Proxy Server | p. 514 |
| Preventing One Visitor from Assuming Another Visitor's PHP Session Identity | p. 516 |
| Using PHP Functions to Create Web Page Templates | p. 517 |
| Using PHP to Add File Upload Functionality to a Web Page | p. 520 |
| Active Server Pages (ASP) | p. 524 |
| Controlling the Flow of Content from Web Server to Web Browser Through the HTML Output Stream | p. 539 |
| Preventing the Web Browser from Displaying Stale Active Server Pages | p. 543 |
| Redirecting the Web Browser to Another Web Page | p. 545 |
| Maintaining Variable Values Between HTTP Requests with the Cookies Collection | p. 547 |
| Retrieving Form Results from the ASP Form Collection | p. 550 |
| Retrieving Form Results from the ASP QueryString Collection | p. 553 |
| Retrieving Information from the Server Variables Collection | p. 556 |
| Connecting to a MySQL DBMS Through the MyODBC Driver | p. 559 |
| Setting Up Username/Password Access to a Web Site | p. 562 |
| Starting a Session and Working with Session Variables | p. 565 |
| Executing SQL Queries and Displaying Query Results Sets Within an HTML Table | p. 568 |
| Displaying Banner Ads with the Microsoft Banner Ad Rotator | p. 573 |
| Tracking Microsoft Banner Ad Rotator Impressions and Click-Throughs | p. 576 |
| Handling "Status: 404 Not Found" Errors | p. 580 |
| Security and Performance | p. 586 |
| Downloading and Installing a Public Key, Digital Signature, and Server ID | p. 600 |
| Creating a Secure Web Page Under IIS | p. 601 |
| Installing a Software-Based Firewall | p. 603 |
| Fine-Tuning a Firewall's Port Assignments | p. 605 |
| Reducing Your Site's Exposure to Viruses | p. 607 |
| Improving Performance and Security by Disabling Printer and File Sharing | p. 610 |
| Using Client Certificates to Restrict User Access | p. 612 |
| Auditing System Events to Detect Intruders | p. 614 |
| Exploiting the NTFS File System | p. 617 |
| Disabling Remote Services | p. 620 |
| Analyzing Your System's Vulnerability | p. 623 |
| Processing Credit Card Data | p. 625 |
| Taking a Close Look at a Web Site's Performance Chain | p. 625 |
| Creating a Web Farm | p. 631 |
| Monitoring Server Performance | p. 631 |
| Index | p. 637 |
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