[...]... accompanying Web site at http://www.intuitive.com/coolsites/ What’s on the Companion Web Site? What would a Web book be without a companion Web site? The Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Web site can be found at http://www.intuitive.com/ coolsites/ The site contains every single example in the book, pointers to every site men­ tioned, the extended table of contents for the book, and a sample... on it, and how to use your Web browser If you seek detailed information on these topics, you can find many interesting and useful books from Wiley Publishing at http://www.wiley.com/ compbooks After you have this basic knowledge, you’ll find that Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is a fun introduction to the art and science of creating interesting— and, if I may say so, cool Web sites. .. as well as provide fun and interesting reading So spend a minute and breeze through my preface to ensure that this is the book you seek What This Book Is About In a nutshell, Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is an introduction to HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets HTML is the HyperText Markup Language, and it’s the language that enables you to create and publish your own multimedia... (http://www.intuitive.com/coolsites/) or to sites elsewhere on the Net Ł xiv Preface Who Should Read This Book? You can use this book to learn HTML, XHTML, CSS, and the techniques needed to create cool Web sites All you need is a simple text editor, such as Notepad (which comes with Windows) or TextEdit (which is part of the Macintosh operating system), and a Web browser If you’re already online and have a Web browser... were confusing online documents written by programmers and computer types For you, it will be a lot easier By reading this book and exploring the software and samples included on the companion Web site, you can learn not only the nuts and bolts of HTML, XHTML, and CSS, but also quite a lot about how to design and create useful, attractive Web sites and spread the word about them on the Net Ł xii Preface... Kiana, Gareth, and Ashley, my guardian angels Preface W ho should buy this book? What’s covered? How do I read this book? Why should I read this book? HTML? XHTML? CSS? Sheesh! Why not just use a Web page editor? Who am I? Welcome! “Wow! Another Web book! What makes this one different?” That’s a fair question I want you to be confident that Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS will meet... it, and you move to that spot Ready to grab a file? Just click the file, and Explorer automatically figures out the file type, asks what you want to call the file on your PC, and transfers it across No fuss, no hassle Ł 8 Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Ł tip Throughout this book, I use PC to refer generally to any personal computer I’m actually writing this book on a Macintosh and. .. documents written in HTML specifically for the enjoyment of Web readers, a surprising number of documents actually come from other types of information-publishing services on the Internet These documents are presented in the most attractive formats possi­ ble within the Web browser itself Ł 6 Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Figure 1-2: The National Institute for Literacy site The... chapters are bound together Ł 4 Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS to comprise the book itself What you have in your hands is a collection of pages organized in a format conducive to your reading them from the first page to last However, there’s no reason why you can’t riffle through the pages and create your own strategy for navigating this information Are you still with me? The book is an... shown in Figure 1-5 Figure 1-5: In the Open box, you can type the URL for the Creating Cool Web Sites home page (http://www.intuitive.com/coolsites/) and click OK Now you’re getting somewhere! Type the URL for this book, http://www.intuitive.com/ coolsites/, and click OK, and Internet Explorer should promptly open up the file and the associated graphics, displaying it all in one neat window You might . iii Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Dave Taylor 557386 FM.qxd 4/2/04 10:00 AM Page ii 557386 FM.qxd 4/2/04 10:00 AM Page i Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and. that Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is a fun introduction to the art and science of creating interesting— and, if I may say so, cool Web sites that you’ll be proud of and. accompanying Web site at http://www.intuitive.com/coolsites/. What’s on the Companion Web Site? What would a Web book be without a companion Web site? The Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and