Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Put Your HTML Page Online Today
  • I. Your First Web Page
  • Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
  • Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
  • Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
  • Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
  • II. Web Page Text
  • Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
  • Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
  • III. Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
  • Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
  • Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
    • Software for Making Web Page Animations
    • Creating the Pictures You Want to Animate
    • Assembling the Pictures into an Animation
    • Putting a GIF Animation onto a Web Page
    • Generating Transitions and Text Effects
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • IV. Web Page Design
  • Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
  • Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
  • Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
  • Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
  • V. Dynamic Web Pages
  • Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
  • Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
  • Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
  • Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
  • VI. Building a Web Site
  • Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
  • Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
  • Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
  • Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
  • VII. Appendixes
  • A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
  • B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
  • C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
  • D. HTML Character Entities

Workshop

Quiz

1. If you want your logo to bounce up and down on your Web page, how would you do it?
2. How would you make a quarter-of-a-second pause between each frame of the animation?
3. How would you modify a GIF animation that repeats infinitely to instead play only three times before stopping?

1. Use Paint Shop Pro or another graphics program to make a few images of the logo at various heights (perhaps squishing when it reaches a line at the bottom). Then assemble those images using Animation Shop, and save them as a multi-image GIF animation file named bounce.gif. You can then place that animation on a Web page using the <img src="bounce.gif" /> tag, just as you would any GIF image.
2. When you build the animation in Animation Shop, enter 25 as the time delay (in centiseconds).
3. Open the animation in Animation Shop; select Edit, Animation Properties; choose Play It; and enter the number 3.

• Animation Shop can make slide shows of dissimilar images by automatically generating transition effects, such as fading between pictures. It can also automatically add a number of special effects to still or moving text. If you take a little time to explore the advanced features of this program, I'm sure you'll find it time well spent.
• Don't forget that the free copy of Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop you can download from http://www.jasc.com is an evaluation copy only. If you like it (and who wouldn't!?), be sure to send JASC, Inc., its well-earned registration fee to purchase the software.

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