HTML 4.0 Sourcebook
(Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Author(s): Ian S. Graham
ISBN: 0471257249
Publication Date: 04/01/98

About the Web Site

www.wiley.com/compbooks/graham/

Instead of a CD-ROM, the HTML 4.0 Sourcebook is supported by a companion Web site, available by going to the URL above, and selecting the link to this book. This site provides functionality similar to a CD-ROM, but with several advantages. The first advantage is cost—the book is much less expensive than a book with a CD. (You thought those CD inserts were cheap?) Second, and more important, the Web site can (and will!) be updated with information about late-breaking changes to HTML, as well as corrections to the printed book. Thus, the book and its Web site will remain up-to-date long after other books are obsolete. Finally the Web site contents are available as an archive file, and can be downloaded and installed on your own machine—giving you the advantage of up-to-date material, without having to stay connected to the Internet.

The Web site contains the following material:

All example documents. Listings to all the HTML documents and CGI programs given as figures in the book.

Hypertext reference lists. A hypertext listing of all the book references.

Corrections and Updated Material. Corrections to the printed material, as well as updates on new features.

Additional supporting material. Useful information that didn’t make it into the book, including:

•  A glossary of Web and Internet terms

•  Source code for the programs listen.c and backtalk.c

•  Figures and tables illustrating HTML character and entity references

•  “Appendix A,” a description of the relationship between characters and computer character sets

•  “Appendix B,” a guide to the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) mechanism, its application to Web application, and an extensive table listing commonly used Internet MIME types

•  “Appendix C,” tips for obtaining software over the Internet

•  “Appendix D,” a detailed description of TCP/IP communication “Appendix E,” describing how human languages are identified over the Internet

•  “Appendix F” describing the Web-supported color names (e.g., “red,” “blanchedalmond”) and color codes (e.g., #44eF3B), with example HTML documents illustrating those names and codes

•  Descriptions of useful “Web Management and Maintenance Tools,” with instructions for obtaining those tools

Additional HTML and Web resources are available from the author’s Web sites, found at www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/ and www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/html4ed/. The Wiley and author’s Web sites are linked together, just like every good Web application, so be sure to visit both!

Finally, it is important to realize that, to keep up with modern site design, you must get out there and continue to browse the Web. Reading a book in which an author spouts off his own ideas of good and bad design is all well and good; but you, as a writer and designer of documents and Web sites, will only appreciate how things look and feel by going out there and looking and feeling. The content of this book is merely a framework for appreciating what tens of thousands of creative individuals are already doing. So, go and see for yourself!