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Student Online Companion

Creating Web Pages With HTML, 2nd Edition

Patrick Carey, Carey Associates, Inc.

Welcome to the New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML online companion. This online companion includes extra documentation, graphics and software to be used with "Creating Web Pages with HTML - Comprehensive." The online companion Web site contains the following sections:

The Student Online Resource Center link will take you to a page where you can download student data files for any of the texts.

This Online Companion Home page will describe the contents of these sections.


The Documents Section

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The Documents section contains additional topics of special interest that were not covered in the main text of the book. These topics are:
Tutorial 1:
*The W3 Consortium and Other Sites
*Variations on Bulleted Lists
*Variations on Horizontal Lines
*Extended Character Sets

Tutorial 2:
*Using FTP
*Using USENET
*Accessing Gophers
*File Names and Case

Tutorial 3:
*Using the <FONT> Tag
*Graphics Packages
*Dithering and the Safety Palette
*Image Maps
*Using Transparent GIFs
*Another Use of the ALT Property

Tutorial 4:
*Using a Background Image
*Column Groups

Tutorial 5:
*Are Frames A Good Idea?
*Using the <BASE> Tag
*The <LAYER> tag

Tutorial 6:
*Accessing Web Page Search Forms
*Form Editors
*Learning about CGI

Tutorial 7:
*Other Selector Forms
*WebFonts
*Netscape's Background Blues
*The Resizing Bug
*Internet Explorer's Floating Bug
*Controlling Printing with CSS2

Tutorial 8:
*JavaScript Resources on the Web
*Comparison Operators
*Interrupting Loops
*Extending Strings with the += Operator

Tutorial 9:
*Creating a Web Clock
*Opening Windows
*Working with the Status Bar
*Displaying the Date Last Modified
*Creating an Object
*Checking String Length
*Object Classes and Instances

Tutorial 10:
*Using MIDI Files
*Streaming Audio and Video
*VRML

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The Reference Section

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The Reference Section is updated for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.0.
*HTML Reference Table: HTML Tags and Properties
*Appendix D: JavaScript Objects, Properties, Methods and Event Handlers
*Appendix E: JavaScript Operators, Syntactical Elements, and Keywords
*Appendix F: Cascading Style Sheets

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The Gallery Section

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The Gallery section contains graphics files, media clips and other objects that you can include in your own Web pages to enhance their appearance. The gallery includes the following objects:
*Java Applets: the CreditRoll and Fractal applets
*Background Images
*Graphical Bullets
*Clipart
*Graphical Horizontal Lines
*Photos
*Sound clips (WAV and AU versions)
*Video clips (AVI and QuickTime versions)

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The Software Section

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The Software section contains additional software to help you in your Web page design and creation. Note that the software included here is shareware. Depending upon the shareware company's policies, you may use the software for a short time on a trial basis. After that time period has past, you are expected to either remove the software from your computer or pay the registration fee. The software on this disk is designed for Windows. If you are using a different operating system or wish to learn more about the company and its products, see each software company's Web page located within this section. Here is what is included in the Software section:
* Animagic
Software that allows you to create your own animated GIFs. Animagic allows you to combine several GIFs into one animated GIF. You can also enhance the GIF using one of Animagic's several transition effects. To install Animagic, open the ZIP file, anim32h.zip at the Animagic Web page. For more information, see the company Web page.

* Button Factory
The Silicon Joy Button Factory lets you create your own Java Applet buttons to add interest to your Web page. You can configure the button applet without having to know any Java programming. The Button Factory will also write the HTML code for you, and allow you to paste the code into your Web page. To install Button Factory, run the installation utility, bf1wa.exe located at the Silicon Joy Web page. For more information, see the Silicon Joy Web page.

* GifgIfgiF
This program is used to quickly create simple and fast animated GIFs from screen captures. To install GifgIfgiF, open the self-installing executable program file, ggg32.exe. For more information, open the company Web page.

* GIF Construction Kit
The GIF Construction Kit contains several tools to help your work with your GIFs. With the GIF Construction Kit you can create animated and transparent GIFs, convert AVI files to animated GIF format and edit your GIFs with the construction kit's set of graphical tools. To install the GIF Construction kit, download the program, gifcon32.exe located at the Alchemy Mindworks website at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifconcl.html and then run the installation program. For more information, see the Alchemy Mindworks website.

* MapEdit
MapEdit is a program that assists you in creating image maps. With MapEdit, you can generate HTML code for both client-side and server-side image maps. MapEdit's graphical interface allows you to create and edit the image map's hotspot using only your mouse. To install MapEdit, run the installation program, map32dst.exe, located at the Software section's MapEdit Web page. To learn more about the company and its products, see the MapEdit Web page.

* Presentationware
Presentationware is software that generates a slide show Java applet. You supply the GIF or JPEG image files, and use Presentationware to control the appearance and timing of the slide show applet. You can also include special transition effects, banner text and background sound. To install Presentationware, unzip the pw022.zip file onto your hard drive. You can learn more about Presentationware by viewing the company Web page.

Many of the files in the Documentation sections include links to shareware products located on the Web, which you are free to download and install on your computer.

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Data Disk Files

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Click the links below for the data files for the appropriate tutorials. See the readme files included within each "exe" file for more information on how to setup your data disks.

Level I tutorials(Tutorials 1 and 2)1966-2d.exe
Level II tutorials(Tutorials 3 through 5)1967-0d.exe
Level III tutorials(Tutorials 6 through 10)1968-9d.exe

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*Online Companion Home  
*Software  *Gallery  directory folderData Files  
*Documents:  Tutorial 1 | Tutorial 2 | Tutorial 3 | Tutorial 4
Tutorial 5 | Tutorial 6 | Tutorial 7 | Tutorial 8 | Tutorial 9 | Tutorial 10


*Reference:  HTML Tags, Properties | Appendix D:Web Pages and HTML icon
JavaScript Objects, Properties, Methods, Event Handlers
Appendix E:  JavaScript Operators, Elements, Keywords
Appendix F:  Cascading Style Sheets

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