(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Summary.) 1. Start. Types of Internet Providers. ISP or PP? Does Your Provider Have Enough Bandwidth? Do They Have Enough Overhead? Other Services. ISP Comparison Study. How the Authors Do It. HTML Software.
HTML Versus Design. Should You Learn HTML? Text-Based Editors. Dedicated HTML Editors. WYSIWYG HTML Editors. 2. First Page. How Does the Web Work? Definitions. HyperlinksWeb-like Relationships.
Following the Exercises. Creating Your First Page. Understanding What You Just Did. Carriage Returns in HTML. HTML Capitalization. File Naming Conventions. Spaces in Tags and Attributes. HTML Template.
Uploading the Page. PC FTP Instructions. Mac FTP Instructions. Link Me Up. Linking with Images. Adding Color to the Page. Hash Marks. Add Some Color.
Using a Background Pattern. Adding a Background Tile. 3. Speedy Graphics. How to Read the True File Size. To Icon or Not to Icon? GIF Pronunciation. How GIF Compression Works. Making Small GIFs.
Reducing Colors in GIFs. Reducing Colors Using Photoshop 4.0. Reducing Colors Using Paint Shop Pro. Bit Depth Dilemma? Anti-Aliasing Versus Aliasing. Photoshop Alised Type Exercise. Paint Shop Pro Alised Type Exercise. To Dither or Not to Dither? GIF Compression Tables.
Dither Settings in Photoshop. Dither Settings in Paint Shop Pro. Making Small JPEG Files. JPEG Compressions in Photoshop 4.0. Problems with Progressive JPEGs. JPEG or GIF? DeBabelizer. GIFs in DeBabelizer Pro for Windows.
JPEGs in DeBabelizer Pro for Windows. GIFs in DeBabelizer for Macintosh. PNG. PNG Resources. Gamma Correction. Alpha-Channel Transparency. Filters. Large 24-Bit PNG Files.
4. Web Color. Designers Versus Everyone Else. Browser-Safe Specs. What Does the Browser-Safe Palette Look Like? Do Browser-Safe Colors Really Matter? RGB Color. Hexadecimal RGB. Hexadecimal Colors in HTML. Hexadecimal Resources.
Web Hex Converters. Hex Calculators. When to Use Browser-Safe Colors? HTML-Based Color Choices. How to Load a Browser-Safe Swatch Palette into Photoshop. Previsualizing Colors in Photoshop. Working with Color Picker-Based Applications. Internet Color Picker. CMYK/RGB Conversions.
Illustration-Based Artwork. GIFWizard. Browser-Safe CLUT. Converting to Browser-Safe Doesn't Always Work! How to Ensure Your Artwork Stays Browser Safe. Removing Colors in Photoshop 4.0. Photographic-Based Artwork. JPEGs Don't Use Palettes! Adding Color to a Web Page with HTML.
Using Color Names Instead of Hex. Coloring Individual Lines of Text. Color NamesNot Browser Safe! Coloring Links. Adding Color to Tables. HTML Tags That Support Color. 5. Clickable. Identifying Hot Images.
Creating Linked Images and Text. Turning Off Image Borders. Importance of ALT Text. The Importance of WIDTH and HEIGHT. Resizing Using WIDTH and HEIGHT Info.Aesthetics of Interlaced Graphics. Caching Images. Linking Graphics.
What Are Imagemaps? Client-Side or Server-Side Imagemap? Client-Side Imagemaps in Mapper (Macintosh). Client-Side Imagemaps in MapEdit (Windows). Understanding the Client-Side Imagemap Code. Creating Server-Side Imagemaps. Server-Side Imagemaps in MapEdit. Do You Need an Imagemap? Imagemap Resources. The Importance of ALT Text. 6.
Tiles. Tiling Backgrounds. Determining Tiled Pattern Sizes. Full-Screen Body Backgrounds? Pitfalls of Full-Screen Backgrounds. File Formats for Patterned Background Tile. Seams or No Seams? Seams. No Seams, the Photoshop Way. A Seamless File in Photoshop 4.
0. Seamless Tile Exercise 2. Special Effect Tiles. Aesthetics of Backgrounds. Specify Text Color Schemes. Printing Issues. How to Color Tiles in Photoshop. Anti-Aliased Example.
Alised Example. 7. Buttons & Rules. Horizontal Rules. Rules. Horizontal Rules, the HTML Way. Fancier Horizontal Rules the Do-It-Your.