Appendix A: . Interesting Web Sites

To Explore

Introduction

This appendix includes some useful web addresses. Some of these are interesting interactive sites while others contain materials related to DHTML. When viewing these pages try to examine the different aspects of interactive and dynamic techniques used. Some of these pages misuse multimedia effects while others manage to use them effectively to create very attractive sites.

Business and finance

American Express http://www.americanexpress.com!

Business Week http://www.businessweek.com!

CNNfn - markets http://www.cnnfn.com!markets/

Dow Jones http://bis.dowjones.com!

Economist http://www.economist.com!

Financial Times http://www.ft.com!

Harvard Business Press hUp://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/

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HTML A Beginner's Guide to HTML

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.eduiGeneral/IntemetIWWWIHTMLPrimer.html HTML Quick Reference

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.eduiGeneral/IntemetIWWWIHTMLQuickRef.html http://www.ucc.ie/-pflynnlbookslhtmlcard.html

Web Servers Directory http://www. w3 .0rglhypertextiDataSources/WWW IServers.html

Web reference Welcome to the Matrix

http://www.reach.com!matrix! W ebmaster Reference Library

http://ie .corpnet.com:801-aking/webinfo/ Authors & Webmasters Forum

http://mirror.wwa.com!mirror/ms gslhtml.htm A CGI Programmer's Reference

http://www.best.com!-hedlund/cgi-faq/ Spike's Place

http://www.spikesplace.net/ The Groove Box

http://www.groove-box.com! Classifieds2000

http://www.classifieds2000.com! E-cards

http://www.e-cards.com! Blue Mountain

http://www.bluemountain.com! Angelfire

http://angelfire.lycos.com! Star Wars web site

http://www.starwars.com! Cool-LinkZ

http://www.cool-linkz.com! Yellow Pages

http://www.yellowpages.com! Hemrnington Scott web site

http://www.hemscott.com! Hotmail

http://www.hotmail.com!

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http://www.w3.orglhypertext/WWW/Status.html http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWWrrools/Overview.html http://www.hemac.com

Java and JavaScript

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Netscape's JavaScript Authoring Guide http://www.netscape.com!eng/mozilla/Gold/handbook/javascriptlindex.html http://www.netscape.com!comprodiproducts/navigator/version2.0/scriptlindex.html

Sun Java Applet Index http://java.sun.com!applets/applets/index.html

Netscape's Java Applets http://www.netscape.com!comprodiproducts/navigator/version 2.0/java applets/inde

x.html

Browsers and Internet software companies Opera Software

http://www.operasoftware.com Netscape

http://www.netscape.com! Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com!

Search engines and free email addresses LookSmart

http://www.looksmart.com! WebCrawler

http://webcrawler.com! Search Engine Directory

http://www.dnc.netluserslkinglsearch.htm Yahoo

www.yahoo.com! Email address lookup

http://www.iaf.netl Excite

http://www.excite.com!

Lifestyle

Virtual Flowers Homepage http://www.virtualflowers.com!

Virtual Vineyards http://www.virtualvin.com!

Shopping. com http://www.shopping.com!

Interesting Web Sites To Explore

Internet Card Central http://www.cardcentral.neti

Gardening and Landscaping http://www.btw.com/garden.htm http://www.garden.com!

Amazon.com - Virtual Bookstore http://www.amazon.com!

Books.com (US) http://www.books.com!

TitleFinder (UK) http://www.titlefinder.com!

Virtual Tourist http://www.vtourist.com!

Wines on the Internet http://www.wines.com!wines.html

City.Net http://www.city.neti

International news

CNN Interactive (US) http://www.cnn.com!

BBC News (UK) http://news.bbc.co.ukltextonly.htm

E-News http://www.enews.com!

Le Monde (PR) http://www.lemonde.fr/

De Telegraaf (NL) http://www.telegraaf.nl!

Die Zeit (D) http://www.zeit.de/

Der Standard (Austria) http://derstandard.atIT extversionITOSeite 1.htm

Financial Mail (ZA) http://www.fm.co.za!

Newspapers on the Web http://www.webwombat.com.auiintercorn!newsprs/

USA Today (US) http://www.usatoday.com!

Humour

Laughing Internet (Main)

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http://www.kilo.netltlilindex.html Oracle Humor

http://www.oraclehumor.com/ United Media Comics

http://www.unitedmedia.com/ Humor archive

http://www.cybercheeze.com/ Comedy Central Online

http://www.comcentral.com/ Daily Humor

http://www.daily-humor.com/jotd.html the ONION I America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/

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Appendix B: \ HTMLTags

Here is a selection of HTML tags divided into two main groups. Basic HTML tags are the standard HTML tags and work almost on all World Wide Web (WWW) browsers. The second group is the new tags that are used in DHTML. These tags work on most browsers but they may give different effects from one browser to another. Tags in both groups often take attributes. The tags are organised by appearance in the book and some attributes have been mentioned.

Basic HTML tags

Ta~s Attributes <HTML> . . . <!HTML> <BODY> ... </BODY> <HEAD> ... <!HEAD> <TITLE> ... <!TITLE> <HI> .. . <!HI> <H2> ... <!H2> <H3> ... <!H3> <FONT> ... <!FONT> <OL> ... <lOL> <UL> ... <lUL> <LI> ... <ILl> <TABLE> .. . <!TABLE> <TD> .. . <!TD> <TR> . .. <!TR>

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<A> ... <.fA> HREF, TARGET <FORM> ... <./FORM> METHOD, ACTION <SELECT> ... <.fSELECT> NAME <OPTION> ... <.fOPTION> NAME <INPUT> ... <.IINPUT> VALUE, TYPE, NAME <FRAME SET> ... <./FRAMESET> COLS,ROWS <FRAME> ... <./FRAME> <NOFRAME> ... <./NOFRAME> <IMG> ... <.IIMG> NAME, SRC, DYNSRC, USEMAP <BGSOUND> ... <.JBGSOUND> NAME,SRC <EMBED> ... <.!EMBED> NAME,SRC <APPLET> ... <.f APPLET>

Basic DHTML tags

Tags Attributes <STYLE> ... <.fSTYLE> <DIV> .. . <.IDlY> STYLE <SPAN> ... <.fSP AN> STYLE <LAYER> ... <./LAYER> ID, WIDTH, TOP <ILA YER> ... <.lILA YER> ID, WIDTH, TOP <NOLA YER> ... <./NOLA YER> <OBJECT> ... <.fOBJECT>

Index

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A tag· 23 Absolute positioning · 92, 111 ACTION attribute· See FORM tag Alert method· l30 Align· 15 ALINK attribute . 46 APPLET tag· 128 AREA tag· 58

COORDS attribute· 58 SHAPE attribute · 58

B

B tag· l3 BGSOUND tag· 60 BLOCKQUOTE tag· 83 BODY tag · 12,34,80

BGCOLOR attribute · 45 BR tag · 12

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c Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) . 75, 111,

143 CENTER tag · 15 COl scripting · 43, 76, 129 COl Scripting · 129 COORDS attribute· See AREA tag Creating tables· 20

D

Data binding . 140 Data Binding · 76 Data Source Objects (DSO) . 141 DIV tag· 77, 90, 109, 115 Document Object Model (DOM) . 75, 102,

143 Downloadable fonts· 142 Dynamic Contents· 120 Dynamic Positioning· 111 , 116 DYNSRC attribute · 59

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EMBED tag· 59, 64 Events· 103

F

File formats · 59 FONT tag · 13,46 For loop · 133 FORM tag· 40

ACTION attribute· 42 GET method· 42 METHOD attribute· 115 POST method· 42 SELECT tag · 42

FRAME tag· 28 Frames · 17 FRAMESET tag · 27, 31 Function· 136

H

HEAD tag · 12 Headers · 14 HTMLtag·12 HTML template· 11 hypertext · 22

I

I tag· 13 ID attribute· 108 If - else if . 139 ILAYER tag · 91 IMG tag · 44, 58, 61

IS MAP attribute · 54 USEMAP attribute· 58

INPUT tag· See FORM tag ISMAP attribute · See IMG tag

J

JavaScript· 75, 94,103,,115, 130 JDBC Data Provider· 141

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LANGUAGE attribute· 127 LAYER tag· 75, 91,116,124 Layers · 76, 91, 111, 143 LI tag · 19 LINK attribute . 46 LINK tag· 83, 142

M

mailto . 25, 42, 61 Map image· 54 MAP tag . 57 MARQUEE tag · 59, 62, 63 META tag · 125 METHOD attribute· See FORM tag Methods · 102, 129, 143

N

NOFRAME tag· 27, 32 NOLAYER tag· 91, 98,101

o Object · 75, 111, 121, 143 OBJECT tag · 102 OL tag · 19 onClick event · 106, 119 onMouseOver event· 119 open method . 106 Ordered lists . 19

p

Ptag · ll,12 Plug-ins· 59, 63 Prompt method . 131 Properties· 79, 102, 141 Property· 102

Index

R

Relative positioning· 91, 112 Remote Data Services . 141

s SCRIPT tag · 127 Scripting· 76, 115, 127, 130, 143 SELECT tag· See FORM tag

OPTION tag· 41 SHAPE attribute· See AREA tag Sound· 59, 60 SPAN tag· 78, 83 Style Sheets· 74, 83, 97, 111, 143 STYLE tag· 78, 86, 97, 114, 142

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TABLE tag · 20 TD tag · 20 TR tag · 20

Tabular Data Control · 141 TARGET tag· 27, 32

TD tag · See TABLE tag TEXT attribute . 46 TITLE tag· 12, 15 TR tag · See TABLE tag

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TYPE attribute . 42 . See also FORM tag

u U tag· 13 ULtag·19 Unordered lists · 19 USEMAP attribute· See IMG tag

v Video· 59, 60 VLINK attribute . 46

w While loop· 133 Write method· 130

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