Very few people create a Web site with the expectation that no one will ever see it. Web sites are designed to be published and viewed by other people. The number of visitors, or hits, a Web site receives is a common benchmark of its success. In fact, in the late 90s a lot of […]
HTML & Internet
The World Wide Web is a great way for people to communicate with each other. While you have conversations with other people over Internet newsgroups, you can also publish your own personal Web site – a collection of one or more pages on which you can share all sorts of information. This book will introduce […]
Domain name – the things that look something like your-domain-name.com – are an essential part of having a website. They represent the “web address” of your website. You will need your own domain name if you intend to create a website. You will also need to register a domain name if you intend to […]
Javascript If you’re new to programming/scripting, JavaScript is a good place to start. Having said that, it’s still quite different to HTML so I recommend you take your take your time and cover off a little bit each day. Don’t worry if it tales you several days to complete – it’s better to fully […]
What is VBScript? VBScript (Visual Basic Script) is a scaled down version of Visual Basic. Visual Basic is a full blown programming language. VBScript, on the other hand, is a scripting language that can be run client- side (i.e. via your web browser), or server-side (i.e. on the web server). VBScript is the most […]
Web authors today face significant challenges when making their Web pages interactive. The static nature of HTML pages limits their creative choices, and interactive components can be difficult to build and reuse. In addition, using proprietary extensions means authoring browser-specify Web pages. Microsoft Dynamic HTML technology helps to remove these barriers for content providers […]
HTML Uniform Resource Locators HTML Links When you click on a link in an HTML document like this: Last Page, an underlying <a> tag points to a place (an address) on the Web with an href attribute value like this: <a href=”lastpage.html”>Last page</a>. The Last Page link in the example is a […]
HTML Layout Everywhere on the Web you will find pages that are formatted like newspaper pages using HTML columns. HTML Layout – Using Tables One very common practice with HTML is to use HTML tables to format the layout of an HTML page. An HTML <table> is used to divide a […]
HTML Images With HTML you can display images in a document. The Image Tag and the Src Attribute In HTML, images are defined with the <img> tag. The <img> tag is empty, which means that it contains attributes only and it has no closing tag. To display an image […]
HTML Forms are used to select different kinds of user input. Forms A form is an area that can contain form elements. Form elements are elements that allow the user to enter information (like text fields, text area fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.) in a form. A form is […]