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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

With The HTML Sourcebook, Second Edition, you'll quickly master all the comands, tools, and techniques you need to create state-of-the-art Web page documents. This extensively revised edition of the bestselling guide to online publishing using HTML now provides complete coverage of HTML 3.0, the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Standard, experimental HTML features such as Netscape and Microsoft extensions, Web document design, and more. Of course, you'll still find the clear, step-by-step guidelines, priceless pointers, and abundance of instructive examples - complete with code and screen captures - that made the first edition of this book the standard reference on HTML for the Web page developer community.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Preface.

-1- Introduction to the HyperText Markup Language.

-2- HTML and Document Design.

-3- The Design of HTML Document Collections.

-4- HTML in Detail.

-5- The Next Generation - HTML 3, Stylesheets, and Applets.

-6- Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).

-7- The HHTP Protocol.

-8- Communication with The Common Gateway Interface.

-9- CGI Programs and Tools.

-10- HTML and Web Utilities and Tools.

-11- Web Developer Resources.

-12- Real-World Examples.

-Appendix A: Characters and Computer Character Sets.

-Appendix B: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).

-Appendix C: Finding Software Using Archie.

-Appendix D: "Listening" and "Talking" at a TCP/IP Port.

-Appendix E: Tags for Identifying Languages - RFC 1766.

-Appendix F: REL and REV Attributes for Hypertext Relationships.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

Although the usefulness of the handbooks devoted to the different aspects of the programming and design of web pages in Internet is obvious indeed, some are more useful than others due to the nature of the net, which never ceases to advance and change continuously.

The language and the protocols utilized in the World Wide Web are well known by those who work in it, yet the specifications, constantly reviewed and updated, make it necessary for the user to have a reference work as complete as possible that allows for its being looked up without realising its gradual ageing in a few months. HTML Sourcebook faces then its second edition with a great deal of new contents and a large amount of information on the avantgarde of the implementation of the HTML language, with the hope of being useful to its users for the longest possible time.

Graham makes a work full of examples, tables, descriptions, etc. available to us, so as to facilitate any user even the most remote aspects that can make us become experienced web pages designers.

Besides the HTML 3.0 language, the author devotes many of the pages of his book to the description of how to use the tools available in the net, how to prepare CGI programs, advanced forms, etc. With its more than 650 pages, this work is one of the best support texts for webmasters, as well as a fundamental reference volume to take the best advantage of what has become the most revolutionary region in Internet, the World Wide Web, whose growth, future and posssibilities appear to be unlimited.