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
  • 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
    • Publicizing Your Web Site
    • Listing Your Pages with the Major Search Sites
    • Providing Hints for Search Engines
    • Loading Another Page Automatically
    • Advanced Header Tags
    • Documenting the Full Address of a Page
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Q&A

1. I have lots of pages in my site. Do I need to fill out a separate form for each at each search site?

   No. If you submit just your home page (which is presumably linked to all the other pages), the search spiders will crawl through all the links on the page (and all the links on the linked pages, and so on) until they have indexed all the pages on your site.

2. I submitted a request to be listed with a search engine, but my page never comes up, even when I enter my company's unique name. What can I do?

   All the big search engines offer a form you can fill out to instantly check whether a specific address is included in their databases. If you find that it isn't, you can submit another request form. Sometimes it takes days or even weeks for the spiders to get around to indexing your pages after you submit a request. Yahoo! is particularly infamous for being way behind on index requests because they employ human beings to check every page they list.

3. When I put keywords in a <meta /> tag, do I need to include every possible variation of spelling and capitalization?

   Don't worry about capitalization; almost all searches are entered in all lowercase letters. Do include any obvious variations or common errors in spelling as separate keywords.

4. Can I use the <meta /> tag to make a page automatically reload itself every few seconds or minutes?

   Yes, but there's no point in doing that unless you have some sort of program or script set up on your Web server computer to provide new information on the page.

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