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e’re going to ease you into the book with some general information about the Internet and World Wide Web; this will lay a foundation of useful knowledge to help you as you begin to create your own web pages with HTML and CSS. This chapter won’t be a comprehensive overview by any means, but it will get you up to speed on some of the terminology and concepts you’ll need to be familiar with throughout the rest of this book. If you feel you’re already pretty web-savvy, having used and worked with websites for some time, you can probably skip ahead to Chapter 2 and start getting your hands dirty.

hapter 1 briefly introduced you to XHTML and CSS, and in this chapter we’ll show you how you can author markup and style sheets to create your own web pages. You’ll become familiar with the essential components of XHTML documents and how they should be correctly assembled. As you know, you must adhere to some standards when authoring a document for the web, and we’re going to be following the rules of XHTML 1.0 Strict throughout this book. XHTML is an updated reformulation of HTML, with just a few more stringent rules to obey, and we’ll point out the differences between the two languages in this chapter.

The title of this chapter says it all; we’re moving ahead and starting to get into creating XHTML documents. This chapter explains the head element, which contains information about the document. While the head element and its contents aren’t displayed in the browser, they can play a critical role in defining special features in your document, such as Java Scrip code, the name of your document, and any styling that your document should have.

ow that you’ve got a handle on the basics, the real fun can begin: it’s time to start adding content to your web pages. In this chapter, you’ll learn about most of the XHTML elements you’ll need to organize your content and give it a meaningful structure. Along the way, you’ll see examples of how the different elements are rendered by a web browser with its default styling. Then we’ll show you a few simple ways you can use CSS to enhance the presentation of your text.

hapter 4 was all about adding text content to your web pages, but now it’s time to put the in and punch up your pages with pictures. Imagery of some sort is an important part of most websites to make them visually stimulating and memorable. The graphical elements of a design can form the basis of your site’s branding and visual identity and can set your site apart from the millions of others on the World Wide Web.

his chapter shows you how to use links to provide a connection between different documents. Links are one of the most important features that make the World Wide Web so powerful. The real power comes from the fact that you can easily link to both your own documents as well as to other external documents found on the web. Using links, you can point to other documents, graphics, and programs from within your document. Learning about links requires you to revisit the use of URLs, which you first saw in Chapter 1. By default, a link shows up as underlined text within your document. When you hover over the link, the default cursor changes to a different cursor, indicating it is a link. When you select the link, the browser navigates to where the link is pointing.

his chapter details the use of tables in your documents. Tables are useful when trying to capture data that is in nature—that is, data that is best kept in a table format or within rows and columns. Tables are common within web documents, but they aren’t always used in the correct fashion. The goal of this chapter is to show you how to use CSS as much as possible to separate the look and feel of tables from the actual data within them. CSS is mature enough that you can style tables exclusively with CSS, thus allowing the separation you’re striving to maintain.

e’ve referred to the web as a conduit for the movement of information, distributing ideas around the world to anyone who wants to find them. It’s this far-reaching scope and wide-open range that makes the web so philosophically magnificent and fascinating. But information doesn’t flow only downhill. Your visitors might arrive at your website to passively absorb, but, if allowed, they can also participate in the exchange of information, offering their own ideas and reactions.

n Chapter 2 you were introduced to the basics of using CSS to style your documents. You saw how to use internal and inline styles as well as how to use selectors. Throughout the rest of the chapters you have seen some basic techniques on how to style the different elements covered. This chapter will give you additional background on using CSS and show you some additional styling techniques as well as how to handle the layout and positioning of your elements. It is meant to introduce you to the basics in order to style your own documents; to really dig into CSS and gain a thorough understanding of its features, we recommend by Simon Collison (Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2006).