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Table of Contents Dedication iii Table of Contents iv Preface Welcome to "Crash Course in Web Page Design for Libraries" 1 About the Red Rose Library (http://www.redroselibrary.com) 1 Why take this Crash Course 2 Where can I find Library Web Page examples 3 About using Templates 4 Typographical Conventions 4 Chapter 1 Quick Start Web Design Setting up a Web Site Shell Directory 5 CREATING A WEB SITE 6 Using Microsoft's Word to Create Easy Web Pages 7 About File Sizes 8 HTML PAGE STRUCTURE 9 Using HTML, Title, and Body Tags 10 CREATING A RED ROSE NEWSLETTER WEB PAGE 12 Adding the Preformat Tag 12 Adding the Paragraph Tag 13 Adding the Center, Bold, and Underline Tag 14 Adding the Image Tag 15 Creating Structure with Table Tags 16 Recap of HTML Elements used in Chapter 1 18 What's Next? 18 Chapter 2 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) File Naming Conventions 19 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) 20 Web Browsers 20 Saving a Web Page from the Internet 22 Web Site Design 23 About Browsers and HTML Standards 24 Document Type Definitions (DTD) 24 Top Ten Library Home Page Links 25 Web Page Graphics 27 What's Next? 28 Chapter 3 The HTML Document and Header Information HTML Tags, Elements, and Attributes 29 Well Formed Mark Up Tags 30 Basic HTML File Structure 30 HTML Elements and their Attributes 32 HTML Head Section 32 Document Header Information 33 Document Title Element 33 Your Web Site's Base URL 34 Default Fonts for your Page 34 Defining Color Values 34 Describing your Page with Metadata 35 Telling Search Engines: Don't Index this Page 36 Setting a Freshness Date for Your Page 36 Don't Cache - Get me the Latest Page 36 Redirecting Your Patrons to a New Web Site 36 Adding and ISBN Number 37 Your Page's Relationship to Other Documents 37 What's Next? 37 Chapter 4 Displaying Text in Your HTML Document Using Comments 38 The Body of Your HTML Document 39 Document Heading and Block Formatting Elements 42 Forcing Line Breaks 43 Making Text into Paragraphs 43 Horizontal Rules 44 Centering Text 45 Using the Preformat Element for Easy Text Display 45 Representing Quoted Text as a Block 46 Character Formatting 47 Displaying in Boldface 47 Italics 47 Changing Font Typefaces 48 It's All About the Fonts ¿ 48 Using Multiple Attributes in a Font Tag 51 Special Characters (Entities) 52 Text Format Tricks Enhance Your Web Page 53 What's Next? 53 Chapter 5 Images and Linking to other Web Pages Graphics and Copyright 54 Clipart Collections 54 Subscription and Fee Based Royalty Free Clipart 55 Graphic File Types 57 Lossy and Lossless Image Compression 58 Spicing up your Web Page with Clipart 58 Relative and Absolute File Addresses 58 Missing Images and the alt Attribute 59 Sizing Your Images and Multiplying Them 60 Boxing in Your Images 61 Adding Space Around Your Images 62 Aligning Your Images and Text 62 Hyper Linking: Locally, Globally, and Internally 64 Hypertext and Hypergraphics: Linking to Images and Other Web Pages 64 Relative Links Within a Web Page: The Name Attribute 67 Opening a New Browser Window 67 Adding Your Email Address to Your Web Page 68 What's Next? 68 Chapter 6 Div, Span, Style Sheets and Floating Images The div and span Elements 69 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 70 Adding Inline style Attributes to HTML Elements 70 Using Border Attributes with Horizontal Rules 71 Internal Cascading Style Sheets 72 Adding style ¿ One Page at a time 73 Changing Multiple Defaults With style on a Single Page 74 Defining style Within Elements using Classes 75 Other Class Acts 77 Using External Style Sheet Files 77 Updating our Red Rose Library Home Page 78 Styling Paragraph Indents and Margins 80 Background Images 81 Image Borders 82 Text Boxes and Borders 83 Dropped Caps 84 Floating Images for Newsletter Designs 85 Additional CSS Resources 85 What's Next? 86 Chapter 7 Lists, lists, and more lists Three Basic Lists 87 Unordered Lists 87 The List Item 87 Ordered Lists 88 Nesting Lists 89 Definition Lists 91 Creating Lists with style 93 What's Next? 95 Chapter 8 Tables and their Creative Uses Building a Table 96 Designing a Calendar 100 Adding Table Captions and Headings 100 Spanning Table Rows and Columns 102 Applying Tables to Red Rose Library Web Pages 104 Using Cascading Style Sheets to Create Tables 106 Style Sheet Table Equivalents 106 What's Next? 109 Chapter 9 Forms for Patron Interactivity Creating Web Forms 110 The form Element 111 The input Element 111 The select Element 112 The textarea Element 113 Adding Color to a textarea Box Form 114 Action Button Types 114 Server-Side Processing: Making Forms work with CGI 115 How the CGI can work for you 115 Online Surveys 116 Forms Processing using Simple Email Techniques 117 Making it work with Java Script: Client-side Processing 119 Using Forms Graphics in Calendar Pages 121 SuDoKu Anyone? 122 What's Next? 123 Chapter 10 Web Page Navigation, Image Mapping and Marquees Web Page Navigation Techniques 124 Image Maps 126 Image Map area Attributes 127 Adding Navigation to the Red Rose Library Page 131 Marquees 133 Section 508 135 We covered a lot of things, but not every thing ¿ 135 Index
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Library Web sites -- Design -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Web sites -- Design -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.