table of contents

1. What is the Internet?
   
   1. History of the WWW
   2. How the bits connect
   3. Server/Client Relations
   4. How do we find what we're looking for?
   5. Connections and Downloading
   6. Off-Line Browsing
2. What are we really seeing?
   
   1. Markup vs. Programming
   2. Display vs. Source
   3. File Types
   4. Coding
3. What are Web Pages for?
   
   1. The beginning of the design process
4. Anatomy of an HTML tag
   
   1. Brackets
   2. Tags
   3. Attributes
   4. Values
   5. The Whole Thing
   6. Default Values
5. Empty vs. Container Tags
   
   1. The Opening Tag
   2. The Closing Tag
6. Basic Structure of a Webpage
   
   1. html
   2. head
   3. body
7. A Word (or six) about color
8. Text Blocks
   
   1. paragraph
   2. break
   3. center
   4. blockquote
   5. pre-formatted
   6. example
   7. unordered lists
   8. ordered lists
   9. dictionary lists
   10. headings
9. Text Formatting
   
   1. bold
   2. italic
   3. strikeout
   4. typewriter text
   5. underline
   6. font
      
      • face
      • color
      • size
   7. emphasis
   8. strong
10. Images: GIF’s, JPG’s and other image formats
    
    1. The image tag
    2. What kind of image?
11. Hyperlinks and Paths
    
    1. anchors
    2. A word (or six) about how computers organize stuff
12. Tables
    
    1. table
    2. table row
    3. table data cell

Some more advanced topics -

13. Adding Forms
    
    1. form
    2. input
       
       1. radio buttons
       2. checkboxes
       3. text fields
       4. password fields
       5. submit buttons
       6. reset buttons
    3. hidden
    4. select (drop-down) lists
    5. text areas
14. Frames: Layout and Targeting
    
    1. framesets
    2. frame
    3. noframe
    4. target
15. Image Maps
    
    1. maps
    2. areas
    3. How to really do it without counting pixels
16. Special Characters
    
    1. in ASCII
    2. in HTML
17. Overall site management
18. More about color
    
    1. GIFs
    2. JPGs
19. Style Sheets
    
    1. Style Declarations
    2. Font Properties
    3. How to connect Style Sheets to your web pages

Some extras and goodies -

20. Web Design Resources
    
    1. Graphics
    2. Software
    3. Hosting
21. The 216 Web Safe Colors
22. Some examples of really rocking web design, and why they're so great
23. The 7 deadly web design sins, and why you should avoid them
    
    1. Embedded Music
    2. Loud Backgrounds
    3. Blink
    4. Huge Graphics
    5. Obscure Plugins
    6. Broken Links
    7. Missing Images
24. An Easy Reference List of HTML tags, their attributes and values
25. The Last Word

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