Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- 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
- 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
- Suppose you have a scanned picture of a horse that you need to put on a Web page. How big should you make it, and in what file format should you save it?
- Your company logo is a black letter Z with a red circle behind it. What size should you draw or scan it, and in what file format should you save it for use on your Web page?
- Should you save a 100x50 pixel button graphic as an interlaced GIF file?
Answers
- Depending on how important the image is to your page, as small as 100x40 pixels or as large as 300x120 pixels. The JPEG format, with about 50 percent compression, would be best.
- About 100x100 pixels is generally good for a logo, but a simple graphic like that will compress very well; you could make it up to 300x300 pixels if you want. Save it as a 16-color GIF file.
- No. A small file like that will load just as fast or faster without interlacing.
Exercises
- If you have an archive of company (or personal) photos, look through it to find a few that might enhance your Web site. Scan them (or send them out to be scanned) so that you'll have a library of graphics all ready to draw from as you produce more pages in the future.
- Before you start designing graphics for an important business site, try spicing up your own personal home page. This will give you a chance to learn Paint Shop Pro (or your other graphics software) so you'll look like you know what you're doing when you tackle it at work.
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