Mastering the Internet and
HTML
Ibrahim Zeid, Northeastern University
Summary
For undergraduate or
professional courses in effective use of the Internet and HTML.
Designed to integrate two
essential topics of the Internet in one source, Mastering the Internet and HTML presents
the fundamentals of the Internet and HTML to help students understand and effectively use
the dynamic nature of the Internet. The text presents general concepts that can be applied
to a wide variety of software; its examples and exercises ask students to use Netscape
Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and HTML for hands-on practice. The book helps
students understand the underlying fundamentals of Web page development, enabling them to
develop their own Web pages and sites and use a wide variety of Web development tools
effectively and efficiently.
Features
Covers the use of Netscape
Communicator 4.7 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, HTML 4.0.
Features the latest software
releases and versions of HTML, providing students with the most up-to-date materials
available. Gives students step-by-step instructions on how to download and install this
free software.
Hands-on and
practice-oriented material.
Provides students with
extensive applied exercises, tutorials, and homework problems such as using specific
browsers and HTML editors. These are designed to be done in a lab setting as part of a
course, using Macintosh computers, Unix workstations, or PCs running Microsoft Windows 95,
98, 2000 or NT.
Tutorial section at the end
of each chapter.
Combines all the concepts in
the chapter into one comprehensive example which illustrates a real-life solution.
Problems section at end of
each chapter
Exercises are specific,
well-defined questions that can be used in a lab where class time is limited. Homework
Problems are designed to be more extensive and sometimes open ended, requiring students to
have more time out of the classroom to complete them.
Provides students with
independent, challenging problems to further enhance concepts.
Summary section at the end of
each chapter.
Helps instructors organize
and students learn the basic points and concepts in each chapter.
FAQs section in each chapter.
Presents students with a
handy resource of quick answers to their questions.
Figures, line drawings and
images throughout.
Offer plentiful illustrations
depicting basic concepts and showing results of HTML code.
Book is concise, yet
thorough, and introduces students to concepts in "chunks"-not too short to
trivialize concepts and not too long to complicate them.
Presentation style enables
students to easily learn important concepts.
Accompanying website includes
all the source code in the book and a Frequently Asked Questions section.
Table of Contents
I. EFFECTIVE USE OF THE
INTERNET.
1. Overview of the Internet.
2. Connecting to the Internet.
3. Netscape Communicator.
4. Microsoft Internet Explorer.
5. Internet Resources.
6. Navigating the Internet.
II. HTML.
7. Basic HTML.
8. Lists and List Tags.
9. Colors and Color Tags.
10. Images and Image Tags.
11. Image Maps and Map Tags.
12. Sound and Sound Tags.
13. Video and Video Tags.
14. Forms and Form Tags.
15. Frames and Frame Tags.
16. Tables and Table Tags.
17. HTML Editors.
18. CGI Scripting.
750 pages