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Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS will meet your needs as well as provide fun and interesting reading So spend a minute and breeze through my preface to ensure that this is the book you seek What This Book Is About In a nutshell, Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is an introduction to HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets HTML is the HyperText Markup Language, and. .. on it, and how to use your Web browser If you seek detailed information on these topics, you can find many interesting and useful books from Wiley Publishing at http://www.wiley.com/ compbooks After you have this basic knowledge, you’ll find that Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is a fun introduction to the art and science of creating interesting— and, if I may say so, cool Web sites. .. were confusing online documents written by programmers and computer types For you, it will be a lot easier By reading this book and exploring the software and samples included on the companion Web site, you can learn not only the nuts and bolts of HTML, XHTML, and CSS, but also quite a lot about how to design and create useful, attractive Web sites and spread the word about them on the Net Please purchase... 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What would a Web book be without a companion Web site?... at hand This icon points you to helpful information or samples on the companion Web site that accompanies this book (http://www.intuitive.com/coolsites/) or to sites elsewhere on the Net Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark Ł xiv Preface Who Should Read This Book? You can use this book to learn HTML, XHTML, CSS, and the techniques needed to create cool Web sites. .. Ł 6 Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS Figure 1-2: The National Institute for Literacy site The simplest of these alternative information services on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol) FTP is a mechanism for accessing lists of remote folders on hard disks and then directly accessing specific files within those folders It’s been around for a long time—long before the Web was... listed directory or folder? Click it, and you move to that spot Ready to grab a file? 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The book has discrete units of information—pages The pages are conceptually organized into chapters The chapters are bound together Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark Ł 4 Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS to comprise the book itself What you have in your hands . that Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is a fun introduction to the art and science of creating interesting— and, if I may say so, cool Web. This Book Is About In a nutshell, Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is an introduction to HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets. HTML