Peter Weverka
Tony Bove,Mark Chambers,Marsha Collier, Brad Hill,
John Levine,Margaret Levine Young,Doug Lowe,
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Wiley Publishing, Inc., gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these authors
and contributing writers: Peter Weverka, Brad Hill, Cheryl Rhodes, Doug Lowe,
Emily Vander Veer, John Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Marsha Collier, and Tony Bove.
We would like to thank Peter Weverka for editing this book, Virginia Sanders,
Teresa Artman, and Jean Rogers for copy editing it, and Linda Morris for serving
as project editor. Thanks also go to Jim Kelly for his technical edits, Steve Rath
for creating the index, and Rich Tennant for the witty cartoons that you find in
this book. We also thank the many page layout technicians, graphic artists, proofreaders,
and others in Composition Services who worked to bring this book to fruition.
Peter Weverka wishes to thank Steve Hayes for the opportunity to work on this and
other For Dummies books for Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Contents at a Glance
Introduction
Book I: The Basics
Part I: Up and Running on the Internet
Chapter 1: Hooking Up with the Right Service
Chapter 2: Managing Your Online Security
Chapter 3: America Online
Part II: Getting Caught in the World Wide Web
Chapter 4: Browsers and What They Do
Chapter 5: Customizing Your Browser Settings
Chapter 6: Printing and Saving Web Information
Part III: E-Mail
Chapter 7: E-Mail Basics
Chapter 8: Sending and Receiving E-Mail with Outlook Express
Chapter 9: Organizing E-Mail Addresses and Messages
Chapter 10: Mailing Lists
Part IV: Online Communication
Chapter 11: Chatting Online
Chapter 12: Instant Messaging
Chapter 13: Keeping Up-to-Date with News
Part V: Exploring the Internet with a Macintosh
Chapter 14: Using Apple Mail
Chapter 15: Expanding Your Horizons with iDisk
Chapter 16: Going Places with Safari
Book II: Google
Part I: Google: More Than Meets the Eye
Chapter 1: Think You Know Google?
Chapter 2: Improving Your Google Searches
Chapter 3: Ogling the News
Chapter 4: More Than You Care to Know
Part II: Customizing Your Google Experience
Chapter 5: Setting Your Preferences
Chapter 6: Using the Google Toolbar
Chapter 7: Googling in Tongues
Part III: Dusting Off Your Google Gems
Chapter 8: Searching for Specialty Items
Chapter 9: Getting Answers (From Human Beings!)
Part IV: The Google Marketplace
Chapter 10: Shopping with Froogle and Google Catalogs
Chapter 11: Raising Your Visibility with Google
Book III: Yahoo!
Part I: Making Yahoo! Your Own
Chapter 1: Introducing Yourself to Yahoo!
Chapter 2: Customizing Your Yahoo! Experience
Chapter 3: The Yahoo! All-Mail Revue
Part II: Searching . . . Yahoo! Style
Chapter 4: Serious Searching at Yahoo!
Chapter 5: Finding People and Businesses
Chapter 6: And That’s the Way It Is: News Searching
Part III: Meeting and Greeting in the Yahoo! World
Chapter 7: Instant Messaging with Yahoo! Messenger
Chapter 8: Passing the Time at Yahoo! Games
Chapter 9: Posting Your Web Page through GeoCities
Part IV: Yahoo! Means Business
Chapter 10: Going, Going, Gone to Yahoo! Auctions
Chapter 11: From Wall Street to Your Street: Yahoo! Finance
Book IV: eBay
Part I: Signing Up and Getting Started
Chapter 1: Getting a Grip on eBay Auctions
Chapter 2: The Bucks Start Here: Signing Up at eBay
Chapter 3: Just Browsing: Navigating eBay
Chapter 4: It’s All About You: My eBay
Part II: Bidding (And Winning)
Chapter 5: Information Is Power: Researching
Chapter 6: Bidding Basics
Chapter 7: Getting Foxy with Bidding Strategies
Chapter 8: After You Win
Part III: Participating in the eBay Community
Chapter 9: Privacy: To Protect and to Serve
Chapter 10: Reporting Abuses and Fraud
Chapter 11: Yada, Yada: Message Boards, Announcements, and Chat
Part IV: Opening Your Store on eBay
Chapter 12: Trash to Treasure: Selling on eBay
Chapter 13: Time to Sell: Completing the Cyber Paperwork
Chapter 14: Shopping and Selling with eBay Stores
Chapter 15: Closing the Deal and Shipping the Merchandise
Book V: iTunes
Part I: Finding and Downloading Your Favorite Tunes
Chapter 1: Setting Up iTunes
Chapter 2: Buying Music from Apple
Chapter 3: Importing Music into iTunes
Chapter 4: Sharing Music (Legally)
Part II: Managing Your iTunes
Chapter 5: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting
Chapter 6: Adding and Editing Song Information
Chapter 7: Organizing Music with Playlists
Part III: Optimizing and Burning Your iTunes
Chapter 8: Choosing an Encoding Format
Chapter 9: Equalizing the Sound in iTunes
Chapter 10: Burning CDs
Part IV: Playing Your iTunes on an iPod
Chapter 11: Updating Your iPod with iTunes
Chapter 12: Editing on Your iPod
Chapter 13: Locating and Playing Songs
Book VI: Creating Web Pages
Part I: Web Page Basics
Chapter 1: Creating a Successful Web Site
Chapter 2: Building Your First Web Site
Chapter 3: Exploring the Essential Elements of Web Page Design
Chapter 4: Working with Graphics, Sounds, and Video
Chapter 5: Building Your Web Workshop
Chapter 6: Publishing Your Web Site
Part II: HTML
Chapter 7: Creating an HTML Page
Chapter 8: Setting Background and Text Characteristics
Chapter 9: Adding Internal and External Links
Chapter 10: Working with Images
Chapter 11: Controlling Page Layout
Chapter 12: Creating Forms
Chapter 13: Developing Style Sheets
Part III: FrontPage
Chapter 14: Introducing FrontPage
Chapter 15: Laying Out a Web Page
Chapter 16: Presenting the Content
Chapter 17: Publishing and Maintaining a Web Site
Chapter 18: Forms and Behaviors
Part IV: Dreamweaver
Chapter 19: Getting to Know Dreamweaver
Chapter 20: Creating Your First Web Site with Dreamweaver
Chapter 21: Creating Basic Web Pages
Chapter 22: Incorporating Interactive Images
Chapter 23: Adding Multimedia Objects
Chapter 24: Punching Up Your Pages with Forms
Chapter 25: Laying Out Pages with Layers
Chapter 26: Using Templates for a Consistent Look
Chapter 27: Publishing and Maintaining Your Site
Index
Introduction
This book is a general-purpose guide to all things that have to do with the
Internet. It takes on a variety of subjects — how to send and receive
e-mail, chat online, conduct Internet research, use Yahoo!, shop on eBay,
enjoy music with iTunes, and create your own Web pages. Don’t look in this
book to find out how the Internet works. Look here to find out how you can
make the most of the time that you spend on the Internet.
What’s in This Book, Anyway?
This book is really six different books wrapped up in one convenient volume.
It’s jam-packed with tips, advice, shortcuts, and how-to’s to help you squeeze
the last drop of fun and profit from your computer. It’s a reference book. It
isn’t meant to be read from start to finish. Dip into it when you need to solve
a problem, investigate a new use for your computer, or find a better way to do
a task. Here’s a bare outline of the six parts of this book:
✦ Book I: The Basics: Looks into how to choose an Internet service
provider, connect your computer to the Internet, handle e-mail, visit
newsgroups, chat, and surf the Internet.
✦ Book II: Google: Explains how to research by using Google, arguably the
best search engine on the Internet. You discover things that you can do
with Google that you likely didn’t know about, including how to customize
Google and use Google as a means of finding shopping bargains.
✦ Book III: Yahoo!: Explores how to take advantage of the numerous services
that Yahoo! offers, including searching the Internet, using Yahoo!
mail, shopping, chatting, playing games, doing financial research, and customizing Yahoo!.
✦ Book IV: eBay: Describes how to buy and sell on eBay, the online auction
house. You can find many tips in this book for acquiring bargains
and selling your own items.
✦ Book V: iTunes: Examines iTunes, Apple’s online music store. You discover
how to buy music from iTunes and use the iTunes software to
play music, burn CDs, and organize your music collection.
✦ Book VI: Creating Web Pages: Helps you create a Web site with Front-
Page 2003 and Dreamweaver. You also find advice here for coding with
HTML and designing a Web site that will keep people coming back.
What Makes This Book Special
You’re holding in your hands a computer book that’s designed to make
using the Internet as easy and comfortable as possible. Besides the fact that
this book is easy to read, it’s different from other books about computers.
The following sections tell you why.
Information that’s easy to look up
This book is a reference, and that means that I want you to be able to find
instructions quickly. To that end, the people who have contributed to this
book have taken great pains to make sure that the material in this book is
well organized and easy to find. The descriptive headings help you find information
quickly. The bulleted and numbered lists make following instructions
simpler. The tables make options easier to understand.
A task-oriented approach
Most computer books describe what the software is, but this book explains
how to complete tasks with the software. I assume that you came to this
book because you want to know how to do something — build a Web site,
send e-mail, conduct research on the Internet. You came to the right place.
This book describes how to get tasks done.
A Greatest-Hits Collection
The material in this book was culled from eight For Dummies books published
by Wiley Publishing, Inc. You can think of this book as a kind of greatest-hits
collection of computer books about the Internet. If you stumble upon a topic
in this book that intrigues you and you want to know more about it, I suggest
looking into one of the eight books from which this book was created:
✦ The Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition
✦ Mac OS X Panther All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition
✦ Google For Dummies
✦ Yahoo! For Dummies
✦ eBay For Dummies, 4th Edition
✦ iPod & iTunes For Dummies
✦ Creating Web Pages All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition
✦ Office 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Foolish Assumptions
Please forgive me, but I made one or two foolish assumptions about you,
the reader of this book. I assumed that
✦ You have a Windows-based or Macintosh computer.
✦ Your computer is outfitted with a modem, DSL connection, T1 line, or
other means of connecting to the Internet.
✦ You’re kind to foreign tourists and small animals.
Conventions Used in This Book
I want you to understand all the instructions in this book, and in that spirit,
I’ve adopted a few conventions.
To show you how to step through command sequences, I use the ➪ symbol.
For example, you can choose File➪Save to save a file. Using the ➪ is just a
shorthand method of saying, “From the File menu, choose Save.”
Where you see boldface letters or numbers in this book, it means to type
the letters or numbers. For example, “Enter 25 in the Margin text box”
means to do exactly that: Enter the number 25.
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Table of Contents
Introduction ...........
What’s in This Book, Anyway? .......
What Makes This Book Special ....
Information that’s easy to look up .....
A task-oriented approach ..........
A Greatest-Hits Collection ....
Foolish Assumptions .......
Conventions Used in This Book ..
Icons Used in This Book ......
Book I: The Basics .......................................................................5
Part I: Up and Running on the Internet .....................................................7
Chapter 1: Hooking Up with the Right Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Selecting an Internet Service Provider ...................................................................................7
Broadband or Dial-Up? .............................................................................................................8
Choosing an ISP to Host Your Web Site ..................................................................................9
Chapter 2: Managing Your Online Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Preventing Viruses from Infecting Your Computer .............................................................11
Maintaining a Kid-Friendly PC ...............................................................................................12
Supervising kids’ access ...............................................................................................12
Using filtering software .................................................................................................12
Screening Web content with the Content Advisor ....................................................13
Chapter 3: America Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Installing AOL ..........................................................................................................................17
Signing On to AOL ...................................................................................................................17
A Short Geography Lesson ....................................................................................................18
Handling Incoming E-Mail ......................................................................................................19
Reading incoming mail .................................................................................................19
Receiving a file ...............................................................................................................21
Managing your e-mail ....................................................................................................21
Composing and Sending E-Mail .............................................................................................22
Writing an e-mail ............................................................................................................22
Replying to and forwarding messages ........................................................................23
Sending a file ..................................................................................................................23
Maintaining an Address Book ................................................................................................23
Exploring the Internet in AOL ................................................................................................24
Part II: Getting Caught in the World Wide Web....................................27
Chapter 4: Browsers and What They Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
ABCs of the Web ......................................................................................................................27
Uniform Resource Locators ...................................................................................................28
Finding Your Way around the Web ........................................................................................29
Getting Started with Internet Explorer .................................................................................30
Launching Internet Explorer ........................................................................................31
Accessing a Web site .....................................................................................................31
Elements of the Internet Explorer window ................................................................32
The Explorer bar ...........................................................................................................33
The toolbars ...................................................................................................................34
Searching the Web ..................................................................................................................35
Starting the search ........................................................................................................35
Limiting your searches .................................................................................................36
Browsing in full screen mode .......................................................................................36
Displaying Previously Viewed Web Pages ............................................................................37
Keeping Track of Your Favorite Web Sites ...........................................................................38
Adding Web pages to your Favorites folder ...............................................................38
Viewing pages from the Favorites folder ....................................................................39
Organizing your favorites .............................................................................................39
Viewing Pages from the History Folder ................................................................................40
Chapter 5: Customizing Your Browser Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Changing Your Home Page .....................................................................................................43
Changing the Way Web Pages Look ......................................................................................44
Changing the text size ...................................................................................................44
Selecting a different font ..............................................................................................44
Changing the text and background colors .................................................................45
Changing the way your browser displays hyperlinks ..............................................46
Customizing Toolbars .............................................................................................................47
Changing the size of toolbars ......................................................................................47
Hiding and unhiding a toolbar .....................................................................................47
Adding a button to the toolbar ....................................................................................48
Changing the History Settings ...............................................................................................48
Specifying Mail, News, and Internet Call Programs ............................................................49
Speeding Up the Display of Web Pages ................................................................................50
Synchronizing Offline Web Pages ..........................................................................................51
Customizing Your AutoComplete Settings ...........................................................................52
Chapter 6: Printing and Saving Web Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Printing a Web Page ................................................................................................................55
Saving a Web Page on Your Computer .................................................................................57
Saving a Web Graphic on Your Computer ............................................................................58
Copying Web Page Information .............................................................................................58
Viewing the HTML Source of a Web Page .............................................................................59
Wallpapering Your Desktop with a Web Graphic ................................................................60
Part III: E-Mail...................................61
Chapter 7: E-Mail Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Choosing an E-Mail Program ..................................................................................................61
E-Mail Addresses .....................................................................................................................61
What’s my address? ......................................................................................................62
Host names and domain names ..................................................................................62
IP addresses and the DNS .............................................................................................63
Top-level domains .........................................................................................................63
Port numbers .................................................................................................................64
URLs versus e-mail addresses .....................................................................................64
Chapter 8: Sending and Receiving E-Mail with Outlook Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Checking for New Mail ............................................................................................................65
Setting Outlook Express to check for mail .................................................................65
Reading e-mail ................................................................................................................66
Replying to a message ..................................................................................................67
Forwarding a message ..................................................................................................67
Composing E-Mail Messages ..................................................................................................68
Drafting a message ........................................................................................................68
Attaching a file to an e-mail message ..........................................................................69
Adding an image to your message ..............................................................................70
Formatting Your Messages .....................................................................................................70
Rich Text (HTML) messages versus Plain Text messages .......................................70
Adding bold, italics, underline, and color to your text ............................................71
Changing the font type and font size ..........................................................................71
Sending an E-Mail Message ....................................................................................................72
Printing a Message ..................................................................................................................72
Chapter 9: Organizing E-Mail Addresses and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Organizing Your Messages with Folders ..............................................................................73
Creating a new folder ....................................................................................................73
Moving e-mail into a folder ..........................................................................................74
Organizing your e-mail with the Rule Editor ..............................................................74
Deleting and compacting your e-mail .........................................................................75
Deleting and renaming folders .....................................................................................76
Adding Entries to Your Address Book ..................................................................................76
Creating a new address ................................................................................................77
Importing addresses from somewhere else ...............................................................78
Chapter 10: Mailing Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Addresses Used with Mailing Lists .......................................................................................81
Subscribing and Unsubscribing ............................................................................................82
Lists maintained manually ...........................................................................................82
Lists maintained automatically ...................................................................................82
Web-based lists ..............................................................................................................83
Sending Messages to a Mailing List ......................................................................................83
Special Requests to Mailing Lists ..........................................................................................84
Archives ..........................................................................................................................84
Subscriber list ................................................................................................................84
Privacy ............................................................................................................................84
Going on vacation ..........................................................................................................85
Open and Closed Mailing Lists ..............................................................................................85
Receiving Digested Mailing Lists ...........................................................................................85
Using Filters .............................................................................................................................86
Starting Your Own Mailing List ..............................................................................................86
Part IV: Online Communication ..........................................87
Chapter 11: Chatting Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Chatting Online ........................................................................................................................87
Following group conversations ...................................................................................88
Safe chatting guidelines ................................................................................................89
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) .......................................................................................................89
Starting IRC ....................................................................................................................90
Picking a server .............................................................................................................90
Issuing IRC commands ..................................................................................................90
IRC channels ..................................................................................................................91
Types of channels .........................................................................................................91
Starting your own channel ...........................................................................................92
Filing a complaint ..........................................................................................................92
Getting more info ...........................................................................................................92
Chapter 12: Instant Messaging . . . ............................................93
Becoming a registered user .........................................................................................93
Engaging in a chat session ...........................................................................................94
Adding and deleting buddies on your Buddy List ....................................................95
MSN Messenger .......................................................................................................................95
Logging on to MSN Messenger ....................................................................................95
Engaging in a chat session ...........................................................................................95
Adding and deleting buddies .......................................................................................96
Chapter 13: Keeping Up-to-Date with News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Newsgroup Basics ...................................................................................................................97
Newsgroup “netiquette” ...............................................................................................98
Newsgroup names .........................................................................................................98
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) ............................................................................99
Posting articles to newsgroups .................................................................................100
Reading Newsgroups with Google ......................................................................................101
Google and Usenet indexes ........................................................................................101
Searching Google Groups ...........................................................................................101
Replying to an article ..................................................................................................102
Posting a new article ...................................................................................................102
Reading Newsgroups with Outlook Express ......................................................................102
Viewing newsgroup messages before you subscribe .............................................103
Subscribing to a newsgroup .......................................................................................103
Unsubscribing from a newsgroup .............................................................................104
Part V: Exploring the Internet with a Macintosh..................105
Chapter 14: Using Apple Mail .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Know Thy Mail Window .......................................................................................................105
Setting Up Your Account ......................................................................................................107
Adding an account ......................................................................................................108
Editing an existing account ........................................................................................109
Deleting an account ....................................................................................................109
Receiving and Reading E-Mail Wisdom ..............................................................................110
Reading and deleting your messages .......................................................................111
Replying to mail ...........................................................................................................111
Raise the Little Flag: Sending E-Mail ...................................................................................114
What? You Get Junk Mail, Too? ...........................................................................................116
Attachments on Parade ........................................................................................................118
Fine-Tuning Your Post Office ...............................................................................................119
Adding sound ...............................................................................................................119
Checking Mail automatically ......................................................................................119
Automating message deletion ...................................................................................119
Adding signatures ........................................................................................................120
Changing the status of an account ............................................................................120
Automating Your Mail with Rules .......................................................................................120
Chapter 15: Expanding Your Horizons with iDisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Grabbing Internet Storage for Your Mac ............................................................................123
Understanding What’s on Your iDisk ..................................................................................125
Opening and Using iDisk ......................................................................................................126
Chapter 16: Going Places with Safari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Let’s Pretend You’ve Never Used This Thing ....................................................................129
Visiting Web Sites ..................................................................................................................131
Navigating the Web ...............................................................................................................131
Setting Up Your Home Page .................................................................................................133
Adding and Using Bookmarks .............................................................................................134
Downloading Files .................................................................................................................136
Using Subscriptions and History ........................................................................................137
Saving Web Pages ..................................................................................................................137
Protecting Your Privacy .......................................................................................................138
Yes, there are such things as bad cookies ...............................................................138
Cleaning your cache ....................................................................................................139
Handling ancient history ............................................................................................139
Book II: Google ........................................................................141
Part I: Google: More Than Meets the Eye............................................143
Chapter 1: Think You Know Google? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
What You Can Do with Google .............................................................................................143
Find all sorts of stuff ...................................................................................................144
Explore the hidden strengths of Google ...................................................................144
Get answers from real people ....................................................................................145
Take Google with you ..................................................................................................145
The Greatness of Google ......................................................................................................145
Chapter 2: Improving Your Google Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Basic Web Searches ..............................................................................................................147
Understanding the Google Results Page ............................................................................149
Breaking Down Web Search Results ...................................................................................150
Page description ..........................................................................................................150
Directory category ......................................................................................................150
The Google cache ........................................................................................................151
Similar pages ................................................................................................................151
Indented results ...........................................................................................................152
Conducting an Advanced Search ........................................................................................152
Using multiple keywords ............................................................................................153
Other Advanced Search features ...............................................................................154
Searching Shorthand: Using Operators ..............................................................................155
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Keywords .........................................................................156
Advanced Image Searching ..................................................................................................157
Chapter 3: Ogling the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Relaxing into Browsing Mode ..............................................................................................161
Understanding Google Directory ........................................................................................162
Submitting a Web Page to the Directory ............................................................................163
Googling the Day’s News ......................................................................................................165
Searching for News ...............................................................................................................167
Chapter 4: More Than You Care to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Welcome to the Pre-Web ......................................................................................................169
Browsing and Searching Google Groups ............................................................................171
Using the group operator ...........................................................................................174
Understanding related groups ...................................................................................175
Sorting search results .................................................................................................176
Interpreting search results .........................................................................................177
Reading Messages and Threads ..........................................................................................177
Posting Messages through Google Groups ........................................................................179
Advanced Searching .............................................................................................................182
Part II: Customizing Your Google Experience.....................................185
Chapter 5: Setting Your Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Visiting the Preferences Page ..............................................................................................185
The International Google .....................................................................................................187
Searching for Non-English Pages .........................................................................................187
G-Rated Searching .................................................................................................................188
Opening the Floodgates .......................................................................................................189
New Windows ........................................................................................................................189
Chapter 6: Using the Google Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Installing the Google Toolbar ..............................................................................................192
Choosing Toolbar Options ...................................................................................................193
Options tab choices ....................................................................................................194
More tab choices .........................................................................................................195
AutoFill tab information .............................................................................................196
AutoFill ...................................................................................................................................196
Pop-Up Blocker ......................................................................................................................197
Pushing Google’s (Browser) Buttons ..................................................................................198
Chapter 7: Googling in Tongues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Google in Your Native Tongue .............................................................................................201
Searching Around the World ...............................................................................................203
Translating on-the-Fly ...........................................................................................................204
Part III: Dusting Off Your Google Gems ................................................207
Chapter 8: Searching for Specialty Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Finding the Specialty Searches ............................................................................................207
U.S. Government Searches ...................................................................................................208
Linux and BSD Searches .......................................................................................................209
Mac and Microsoft Searches ................................................................................................209
University Searches ..............................................................................................................209
Chapter 9: Getting Answers (From Human Beings!) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Paying for Google Expertise ................................................................................................211
Creating an Account and Logging In ...................................................................................212
Posting and Canceling Questions .......................................................................................213
Comments and Conversations ............................................................................................217
Good Questions at the Right Prices ....................................................................................219
Good questions equal good answers ........................................................................219
Exploring the Google Answers directory .................................................................219
Putting your money where your query is ................................................................221
Part IV: The Google Marketplace..........................................................223
Chapter 10: Shopping with Froogle and Google Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223
Google’s Approach to Online Shopping .............................................................................223
Searching and Browsing in Froogle .....................................................................................224
Search results in Froogle ............................................................................................224
Froogle search operators ...........................................................................................224
Froogle Advanced Search ....................................................................................................227
About Google Catalogs .........................................................................................................227
Searching Google Catalogs .........................................................................................228
Advanced Catalogs searching ....................................................................................229
Chapter 11: Raising Your Visibility with Google . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
The Google Crawl ..................................................................................................................231
Getting into Google ...............................................................................................................232
Luring the spider .........................................................................................................233
Spider-friendly tips ......................................................................................................234
The Folly of Fooling Google .................................................................................................235
Keeping Google Out ..............................................................................................................236
Book III: Yahoo! ......................................................................239
Part I: Making Yahoo! Your Own...........................................................241
Chapter 1: Introducing Yourself to Yahoo! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
Getting Your Yahoo! ID ..........................................................................................................242
Signing In to Yahoo! ...............................................................................................................244
Creating a Profile ...................................................................................................................244
The basic you ...............................................................................................................245
The photogenic you ....................................................................................................246
The voluble you ...........................................................................................................246
The colorful you ..........................................................................................................247
Cruising the Profiles .............................................................................................................247
Chapter 2: Customizing Your Yahoo! Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249
Customizing This and That ..................................................................................................249
Choosing What Appears on Your My Yahoo! Page ............................................................250
Deciding on the content .............................................................................................251
Choosing a color scheme ...........................................................................................253
Choosing a layout ........................................................................................................253
Choosing Subject Matter for Your My Yahoo! Page ..........................................................254
Chapter 3: The Yahoo! All-Mail Revue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
Getting Ready for Yahoo! Mail .............................................................................................255
E-Mail Coming and Going .....................................................................................................256
Checking and reading your Yahoo! mail ...................................................................256
Composing and replying to e-mail .............................................................................257
Sending a file ................................................................................................................259
Receiving a file that someone sent to you ...............................................................260
Organizing your mail ...................................................................................................260
Your Virtual Black Book .......................................................................................................261
Part II: Searching . . . Yahoo! Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
Chapter 4: Serious Searching at Yahoo!...........265
Understanding the Yahoo! Directory ..................................................................................265
Site links versus directory links ................................................................................266
Fun with shortcuts ......................................................................................................266
Steroid-Infused Tips ..............................................................................................................267
Use multiple windows .................................................................................................268
Bookmark your Favorites ...........................................................................................268
Adding a Site to the Yahoo! Directory ................................................................................269
Starting the Yahoo! Search Engine ......................................................................................270
Yahoo! searching secrets revealed ............................................................................271
Sleuthing with keywords ............................................................................................271
Advanced searching ....................................................................................................273
Getting precise with search operators .....................................................................273
Chapter 5: Finding People and Businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
Finding an E-Mail Address ....................................................................................................277
Getting Yourself Registered .................................................................................................279
Searching the Yahoo! Personals ..........................................................................................279
Placing a Personal Ad ...........................................................................................................281
Chapter 6: And That’s the Way It Is: News Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Finding the Front Page ..........................................................................................................283
Filling the Tank with High-Octane News .............................................................................285
Personalizing the Yahoo! News Page ..................................................................................286
Part III: Meeting and Greeting in the Yahoo! World .....289
Chapter 7: Instant Messaging with Yahoo! Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
Getting Ready to Run Yahoo! Messenger ...........................................................................289
Logging On to Yahoo! Messenger ........................................................................................290
Training Messenger ..............................................................................................................290
Making New Friends ..............................................................................................................292
Chatting with Friends ...........................................................................................................293
The Messenger Control Center ...........................................................................................294
Chapter 8: Passing the Time at Yahoo! Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Playing a Game ......................................................................................................................297
Playing a Checkers Game .....................................................................................................300
Chapter 9: Posting Your Web Page through GeoCities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Creating a GeoCities-Hosted Web Site ................................................................................303
Building Your GeoCities Web Site .......................................................................................304
A Quick and Easy Page .........................................................................................................305
Page Construction Made Easy .............................................................................................308
Dragging stuff around in PageBuilder .......................................................................309
Choosing stuff for your page .....................................................................................313
Part IV: Yahoo! Means Business...........................................................317
Chapter 10: Going, Going, Gone to Yahoo! Auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317
Finding Auctions and Bidding .............................................................................................317
Bidding on Items ...................................................................................................................320
A Few Rules to Live By .........................................................................................................320
Chapter 11: From Wall Street to Your Street: Yahoo! Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
A Basic Map of Yahoo! Finance ............................................................................................323
Market overview ..........................................................................................................324
Data for investors ........................................................................................................325
News and commentary ...............................................................................................325
Getting Stock and Mutual Fund Quotes .............................................................................325
Creating Portfolios ................................................................................................................326
Creating your portfolio ...............................................................................................327
Viewing a portfolio in different ways ........................................................................329
Book IV: eBay .........................................................................331
Part I: Signing Up and Getting Started .................................................333
Chapter 1: Getting a Grip on eBay Auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333
What Is eBay, and How Does It Work? ................................................................................333
All About Auctions ................................................................................................................335
eBay auctions ...............................................................................................................335
Reserve-price auctions ...............................................................................................335
Live Auctions ...............................................................................................................336
Restricted-access auctions ........................................................................................337
Private (shhh-it’s-a-secret) auctions .........................................................................337
Multiple Item auctions ................................................................................................337
Buying It Now at eBay ...........................................................................................................337
eBay’s Role in the Action .....................................................................................................338
Chapter 2: The Bucks Start Here: Signing Up at eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339
Registering at eBay ...............................................................................................................339
Registering Is Free and Fun (And Fast) ..............................................................................340
So, what’s your sign? Filling in your required information ....................................340
Do you solemnly swear to . . . ? .................................................................................341
It must be true if you have it in writing ....................................................................342
Getting to know you: Optional information .............................................................342
Chapter 3: Just Browsing: Navigating eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .345
What Is the Home Page? .......................................................................................................345
Sign In, Please ........................................................................................................................346
This Bar Never Closes ..........................................................................................................347
Exploring Your Home Page Search Options .......................................................................348
Peering through the home page search text box ....................................................348
Going where the Search button takes you ...............................................................348
Home Links, the Next Generation .......................................................................................350
Maneuvering through Categories .......................................................................................350
Chapter 4: It’s All About You: My eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353
Getting to Your My eBay Page .............................................................................................353
Choosing Your My eBay Preferences ..................................................................................355
Setting Up Your Account ......................................................................................................356
Getting Your Favorites Area Together ................................................................................357
Choosing your favorite categories ............................................................................357
Your favorite searches and sellers ............................................................................358
Following the Action on Your Bidding/Watching Area .....................................................359
Seeing the Items I’m Bidding On ................................................................................360
Keeping track of Items I’ve Won ................................................................................360
Sleuthing with Items I’m Watching ............................................................................360
Surveying Your Sales on Your My eBay Selling Page ........................................................361
Items I’m Selling ...........................................................................................................361
Items I’ve Sold ..............................................................................................................361
Keeping Track of Your Transactions ..................................................................................362
Getting and Giving Feedback ...............................................................................................362
The Feedback page .....................................................................................................363
Reading your feedback ...............................................................................................364
You have the last word — responding to feedback ................................................365
Giving feedback ...........................................................................................................365
Part II: Bidding (And Winning)...............................................................367
Chapter 5: Information Is Power: Researching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
Looking to Find an Item? Start Your eBay Search Engine ................................................367
Using the eBay Search page .......................................................................................368
eBay’s Advanced Search .............................................................................................370
A seller search .............................................................................................................371
A bidder search ...........................................................................................................373
Narrowing down your eBay search ...........................................................................373
Finding eBay Members: The Gang’s All Here .....................................................................374
Doing More Research Online ...............................................................................................375
Searching sites online .................................................................................................376
Finding other sources of information .......................................................................377
Chapter 6: Bidding Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379
The Auction Item Page .........................................................................................................379
Beating the Devil in the Details ...........................................................................................383
Read the item description carefully ..........................................................................383
Get the scoop on the seller ........................................................................................384
Factoring In the Extras .........................................................................................................385
Payment methods .......................................................................................................385
Using an escrow service .............................................................................................386
Shipping and insurance costs ....................................................................................387
Placing Your Bid ....................................................................................................................387
Bidding to the Max: Proxy Bidding .....................................................................................389
Retracting a Bid .....................................................................................................................390
Chapter 7: Getting Foxy with Bidding Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Get to Know the High Bidder ...............................................................................................393
Find Out an Item’s Bidding History .....................................................................................394
Strategies to Help You Outsmart the Competition ...........................................................395
Multiple Item auction strategy ..................................................................................395
Bidding strategies eBay doesn’t talk about .............................................................396
Time Is Money: Strategy by the Clock ................................................................................397
Using the lounging-around strategy ..........................................................................397
Using the beat-the-clock strategy ..............................................................................398
Chapter 8: After You Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401
eBay Calling: You’re a Winner ..............................................................................................401
Getting Your Paperwork Together ......................................................................................402
Getting Contact Information ................................................................................................402
So, What’s Your Number? .....................................................................................................403
Checking Out .........................................................................................................................404
Using PayPal, a Person-to-Person Payment Service .........................................................405
Using Escrow .........................................................................................................................406
You Get the Item (Uh-Oh, What’s This?) ............................................................................406
Part III: Participating in the eBay Community .....................409
Chapter 9: Privacy: To Protect and to Serve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
What (And How) eBay Knows about You ...........................................................................409
What you tell eBay ......................................................................................................409
What cookies gather ...................................................................................................410
Your eBay sign-in cookie ............................................................................................410
Web beacons ................................................................................................................411
What Web servers collect ..........................................................................................411
Cookie removal–ware ..................................................................................................412
Spam — Not Just a Tasty Treat ...........................................................................................412
Sending spam versus eating it ...................................................................................413
Trashing your junk mail ..............................................................................................413
E-mail spoofing ............................................................................................................414
Chapter 10: Reporting Abuses and Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415
Keeping eBay Safe .................................................................................................................415
Abuses You Should Report ..................................................................................................416
Selling abuses ..............................................................................................................416
Bidding abuses ............................................................................................................417
Feedback abuses .........................................................................................................418
Identity abuses ............................................................................................................418
Operational abuses .....................................................................................................418
Reporting Abuses to Rules & Safety ...................................................................................419
Using Mediation and Dispute Resolution Services ...........................................................421
Resolving a transaction dispute ................................................................................422
Negative feedback can be removed! .........................................................................422
Toss ’em a Life Saver: Insurance .........................................................................................422
Extended warranties on electronics .........................................................................423
eBay Motors Limited Warranty ..................................................................................423
PayPal Buyer Protection .............................................................................................424
Launching a Fraud Report ...................................................................................................424
Docking with Escrow ............................................................................................................425
Trimming in the Sales: Authentication and Appraising ...................................................425
ID Verify ..................................................................................................................................426
Chapter 11: Yada, Yada: Message Boards, Announcements, and Chat . . . . . . . . .429
News and Chat, This and That ............................................................................................429
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! eBay’s Announcements Boards ............................................................430
Help! I Need Somebody ........................................................................................................431
Community Chat Rooms ......................................................................................................432
User-to-User Discussion Boards ..........................................................................................432
Category-Specific Chat Boards ............................................................................................433
Part IV: Opening Your Store on eBay ......................435
Chapter 12: Trash to Treasure: Selling on eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .435
Know Thy Stuff ......................................................................................................................435
Getting the goods on your goods ..............................................................................435
Spy versus spy: Comparison selling .........................................................................436
Know What You Can (And Can’t) Sell .................................................................................438
Forbidden Auctions ..............................................................................................................439
eBay Fees? What eBay Fees? Oops . . . ...............................................................................440
Insertion Fees ...............................................................................................................441
Final Value Fees ...........................................................................................................442
Optional fees ................................................................................................................443
Uncle Sam Wants You — to Pay Your Taxes ......................................................................443
Two wild rumors about federal taxes .......................................................................444
State sales tax ..............................................................................................................445
State income taxes ......................................................................................................445
Chapter 13: Time to Sell: Completing the Cyber Paperwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .447
Getting Ready to List Your Item ..........................................................................................447
Examining the Sell Your Item Page ......................................................................................448
Filling In the Required Blanks ..............................................................................................451
Selecting a category ....................................................................................................451
Creating the perfect item title ....................................................................................453
Writing your description ............................................................................................455
Listing the number of items for sale .........................................................................457
Setting a minimum bid — how low can you go? ......................................................458
Buy It Now ....................................................................................................................458
Setting your auction time ...........................................................................................459
Your secret safety net — reserve price ....................................................................459
I want to be alone: The private auction ....................................................................460
Put me in the Gallery ..................................................................................................460
Filling out the item location .......................................................................................460
A picture is worth a thousand words .......................................................................461
Listing Designer ...........................................................................................................461
Listing the payment methods you’ll accept .............................................................461
Setting shipping terms ................................................................................................462
eBay Options: Ballyhoo on the Cheap ................................................................................463
Checking Your Work and Starting the Auction ..................................................................465
Mid-Course Corrections: Fixing Current Auctions ............................................................466
Making changes before bidding begins ....................................................................466
Making changes after bidding begins .......................................................................467
Chapter 14: Shopping and Selling with eBay Stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .469
Unlimited Shopping from the Stores Page .........................................................................470
eBay Stores search ......................................................................................................470
Browsing the store categories ...................................................................................472
Selling from Your Own Virtual Storefront ..........................................................................472
Paying the landlord .....................................................................................................473
Opening your eBay Store ............................................................................................473
Chapter 15: Closing the Deal and Shipping the Merchandise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
Bookkeeping and Staying Organized ..................................................................................475
Talking to Buyers: The ABCs of Good Communication ....................................................477
Thank you — I mean it ................................................................................................478
Keep e-mailing ..............................................................................................................479
Shipping without Going Postal ............................................................................................480
Shopping for a shipper ...............................................................................................482
Getting the right (packing) stuff ................................................................................486
Book V: iTunes .........................................................................491
Part I: Finding and Downloading Your Favorite Tunes.........493
Chapter 1: Setting Up iTunes . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .493
What Is iTunes? .....................................................................................................................493
Downloading the Software ...................................................................................................495
Using Setup Assistant ...........................................................................................................495
Exploring the iTunes Window .............................................................................................496
Playing Music Tracks in iTunes ...........................................................................................497
Rearranging and repeating tracks .............................................................................499
Skipping tracks ............................................................................................................499
Repeating a song list ...................................................................................................499
Displaying visuals ........................................................................................................499
Chapter 2: Buying Music from Apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .503
Visiting the iTunes Music Store ...........................................................................................503
Previewing a Song .................................................................................................................505
Buying and Playing Songs ....................................................................................................505
Handling Authorization ........................................................................................................506
Setting the Music Store Preferences ...................................................................................507
Chapter 3: Importing Music into iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .509
Setting the Importing Preferences ......................................................................................509
Ripping Music from CDs .......................................................................................................511
Importing Music Files ...........................................................................................................512
Adding Your Own Pet Sounds ..............................................................................................513
Importing Audio Books ........................................................................................................513
Chapter 4: Sharing Music (Legally) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .515
Sharing Music from the iTunes Music Store ......................................................................515
Copying Songs to Other Computers ...................................................................................516
Sharing Music on a Network ................................................................................................516
Part II: Managing Your iTunes...........................................519
Chapter 5: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .519
Browsing by Artist and Album ............................................................................................519
Understanding the Song Indicators ....................................................................................521
Changing Viewing Options ...................................................................................................521
Sorting Songs by Viewing Options ......................................................................................523
Searching for Songs ..............................................................................................................523
Chapter 6: Adding and Editing Song Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .525
Retrieving Information from the Internet ...........................................................................525
Retrieving information automatically .......................................................................525
Retrieving information manually ...............................................................................526
Typing the Song Information ...............................................................................................527
Editing artist and band names ...................................................................................527
Speed editing multiple songs .....................................................................................527
Adding Liner Notes and Ratings for Individual Songs ......................................................529
Chapter 7: Organizing Music with Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .531
Creating Playlists ..................................................................................................................531
Playlists of songs .........................................................................................................531
Playlists of albums ......................................................................................................532
Viewing a Smart Playlist .......................................................................................................533
Creating a smart playlist ............................................................................................533
Editing a smart playlist ...............................................................................................534
Part III: Optimizing and Burning Your iTunes ...............537
Chapter 8: Choosing an Encoding Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .537
Trading Quality for Space ....................................................................................................537
Choosing an Encoder ............................................................................................................538
Manic Compression Has Captured Your Song ...................................................................539
Deciding Importing Settings ................................................................................................539
Customizing the Encoder Settings ......................................................................................540
Changing AAC Encoder settings ................................................................................541
Changing MP3 Encoder settings ................................................................................542
Converting Songs to Another Encoder ...............................................................................544
Chapter 9: Equalizing the Sound in iTunes . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .545
Leveling the Volume for Songs ............................................................................................545
Fine-Tuning Playback in iTunes ...........................................................................................546
Adjusting the preamp volume ...................................................................................546
Adjusting frequencies .................................................................................................547
Utilizing an Equalizer Preset ................................................................................................547
Saving your own presets ............................................................................................547
Assigning equalizer presets to songs .......................................................................548
Cross-Fading Songs ...............................................................................................................550
Chapter 10: Burning CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .551
Selecting Recordable CDs ....................................................................................................551
What You Can Fit on a CD-R .................................................................................................552
Creating a Burn Playlist ........................................................................................................553
Calculating how much music to use .........................................................................553
Switching import encoders for audio CD-R .............................................................554
Switching import encoders for MP3 CD-R ................................................................554
Setting the Burning Preferences ..........................................................................................555
Setting the sound check and gaps ............................................................................555
Setting the format and recording speed ...................................................................556
Burning a Disc .......................................................................................................................557
Exporting Song Information for Liner Notes .....................................................................558
Troubleshooting ....................................................................................................................559
Part IV: Playing Your iTunes on an iPod....................561
Chapter 11: Updating Your iPod with iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .561
Changing Your Update Preferences ....................................................................................561
Updating Your iPod Automatically .....................................................................................562
Updating the entire library ........................................................................................563
Updating playlists ........................................................................................................564
Updating selected songs ............................................................................................565
Updating Your iPod Manually ..............................................................................................565
Copying music directly ...............................................................................................566
Deleting music on your iPod ......................................................................................567
Chapter 12: Editing on Your iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .569
Creating Playlists ..................................................................................................................569
Editing Playlists .....................................................................................................................570
Editing Song Information ......................................................................................................571
Chapter 13: Locating and Playing Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .573
Locating Songs ......................................................................................................................573
By artist ........................................................................................................................573
By album .......................................................................................................................574
By playlist .....................................................................................................................574
Playing a Song ........................................................................................................................575
Repeating Songs ....................................................................................................................575
Shuffling the Song Order ......................................................................................................576
Creating On-the-Go Playlists ................................................................................................576
Adjusting the Volume ...........................................................................................................577
Bookmarking Audible Audio Books ....................................................................................578
Book VI: Creating Web Pages ...................................................579
Part I: Web Page Basics ....................................................581
Chapter 1: Creating a Successful Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .581
Web Site Basics ......................................................................................................................581
Different kinds of Web sites .......................................................................................581
Creating a Web site: An overview ..............................................................................582
Planning Your Web Site ........................................................................................................583
Creating Your Web Pages .....................................................................................................583
From scratch, using a text editor ..............................................................................583
Using a graphical Web page editor ...........................................................................584
Beyond HTML: Adding nifty features ........................................................................584
Publishing Your Web Pages .................................................................................................584
Finding space for your Web site ................................................................................584
Publicizing your Web site ...........................................................................................586
Elements of a Successful Web Site ......................................................................................586
Organizing Site Content ........................................................................................................587
Sequential organization ..............................................................................................587
Hierarchical organization ...........................................................................................588
Combination sequential and hierarchical organization .........................................589
Web organization .........................................................................................................589
What to Include on Every Page ...........................................................................................590
What to Include on Every Web Site ....................................................................................591
Home page ....................................................................................................................591
Cover page ...................................................................................................................592
Site map ........................................................................................................................592
Contact information ....................................................................................................592
Help page ......................................................................................................................593
FAQ ................................................................................................................................593
Related links .................................................................................................................593
Discussion group .........................................................................................................593
Chapter 2: Building Your First Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .595
Registering with a Free Web Host .......................................................................................595
Using a Free Web Site Creation Tool ...................................................................................598
Chapter 3: Exploring the Essential Elements of Web Page Design . . . . . . . . . . . . .605
HTML Basics ..........................................................................................................................605
Adding Text ............................................................................................................................606
Aligning text .................................................................................................................607
Specifying headings ....................................................................................................607
Changing text appearance ..........................................................................................608
Changing fonts .............................................................................................................608
Creating line breaks ....................................................................................................610
Adding Color ..........................................................................................................................610
Changing the Background ....................................................................................................611
Setting the background color ....................................................................................611
Using a background image .........................................................................................612
Creating Visual Interest with Horizontal Rules .................................................................612
Organizing Information into Lists .......................................................................................613
Bulleted lists ................................................................................................................613
Numbered lists .............................................................................................................613
Creating Links ........................................................................................................................615
Using text links ............................................................................................................615
Using graphic links ......................................................................................................615
Linking within the same page ....................................................................................616
Using Tables ...........................................................................................................................616
Creating a basic table .................................................................................................616
Using a table for page layout .....................................................................................618
Creating Navigation Bars .....................................................................................................621
Deciding what to include in a navigation bar ..........................................................621
Creating a text-based navigation bar ........................................................................621
Using images in a navigation bar ...............................................................................623
Chapter 4: Working with Graphics, Sounds, and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625
Getting Familiar with File Formats for Image, Sound, and Video ....................................625
Image file ......................................................................................................................625
Sound file formats .......................................................................................................627
Video file formats ........................................................................................................627
Inserting a Graphic Image ....................................................................................................627
Working with Graphic Images ..............................................................................................628
Carving Up Graphics with Image Maps ..............................................................................629
Using Transparent GIF Images .............................................................................................632
Incorporating Sounds ...........................................................................................................633
Inserting a link to a sound file ...................................................................................633
Embedding a sound file ..............................................................................................633
Creating a background sound ....................................................................................634
Incorporating Video Clips ....................................................................................................634
Inserting a link to a video ...........................................................................................634
Embedding a video ......................................................................................................635
Chapter 5: Building Your Web Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .637
Web Browsers ........................................................................................................................637
Netscape 7.1 .................................................................................................................637
Internet Explorer 6 ......................................................................................................638
Graphics Programs ...............................................................................................................638
Photoshop ....................................................................................................................638
CorelDRAW ...................................................................................................................638
Paint Shop Pro .............................................................................................................639
Windows Paint .............................................................................................................639
HTML Editors .........................................................................................................................639
Dreamweaver ...............................................................................................................640
Composer .....................................................................................................................640
FrontPage 2003 ............................................................................................................640
HotDog Professional ...................................................................................................640
Java and Animation Tools ....................................................................................................641
JBuilder .........................................................................................................................641
Flash ..............................................................................................................................641
Office Suites ...........................................................................................................................641
Corel WordPerfect Office 11 .......................................................................................641
Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition .......................................................................642
Microsoft Office ...........................................................................................................642
Chapter 6: Publishing Your Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .643
Publishing Your Web Pages .................................................................................................643
FTP ................................................................................................................................644
Web Publishing Wizard ...............................................................................................647
Rating Your Site .....................................................................................................................649
Part II: HTML .........................................................651
Chapter 7: Creating an HTML Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .651
Understanding HTML Basics: Text and Tags .....................................................................651
Formatting text ............................................................................................................652
Nesting tags ..................................................................................................................653
Using HTML Structure Tags .................................................................................................653
The <!DOCTYPE> tag ...................................................................................................654
The <HTML> tag ..........................................................................................................654
The <HEAD> and <TITLE> tags ..................................................................................654
The <META> tag ...........................................................................................................655
The <BODY> tag ...........................................................................................................655
Getting Familiar with Basic HTML Tags .............................................................................656
Making headings ..........................................................................................................656
Making paragraphs ......................................................................................................656
Emphasizing text .........................................................................................................657
Making lists ..................................................................................................................657
Chapter 8: Setting Background and Text Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .661
Applying a Color Background ..............................................................................................661
Applying an Image Background ...........................................................................................662
Finding Images to Use ...........................................................................................................663
Setting Document Text Colors .............................................................................................664
Changing text colors ...................................................................................................664
Changing link colors ...................................................................................................664
Specifying Text Alignment ...................................................................................................664
Using Font Type Specifications ...........................................................................................666
Chapter 9: Adding Internal and External Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .671
Understanding Links .............................................................................................................671
About URLs ..................................................................................................................672
Anatomy of URLs .........................................................................................................672
Absolute and relative URLs ........................................................................................673
Understanding Anchors .......................................................................................................674
Making Links ..........................................................................................................................675
Linking to documents within your site .....................................................................675
Linking to pages out on the Web ...............................................................................676
Linking to other stuff on the Internet .......................................................................677
Making Links within Documents .........................................................................................677
Making internal links ...................................................................................................677
Marking internal targets .............................................................................................678
Chapter 10: Working with Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .681
Adding Images .......................................................................................................................681
Optimizing Images for Quick Download .............................................................................684
Controlling Image Alignment ...............................................................................................685
Surrounding Images with Blank Space ...............................................................................686
Making Clickable Images ......................................................................................................687
Chapter 11: Controlling Page Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .689
Developing Tables .................................................................................................................689
Embedding Horizontal Rules ...............................................................................................692
Forcing Line Breaks ..............................................................................................................693
Chapter 12: Creating Forms . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .695
Creating a Basic Form ...........................................................................................................695
Using Form Components to Collect Information ..............................................................697
Including Submit and Reset buttons .........................................................................698
Including check boxes, radio buttons, and more ....................................................698
Making check boxes ....................................................................................................698
Making radio buttons ..................................................................................................700
Using other input types ..............................................................................................700
Including drop-down lists ...........................................................................................701
Including text areas .....................................................................................................703
Chapter 13: Developing Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .705
About Style Sheets ................................................................................................................705
Accommodating browser differences .......................................................................705
Understanding inheritance ........................................................................................706
Connecting Style Sheets to HTML Documents ..................................................................706
Embedding style sheets ..............................................................................................707
Linking style sheets .....................................................................................................708
Understanding Style Rules ...................................................................................................709
Applying style rules ....................................................................................................710
Setting a font for an entire document .......................................................................711
Specifying text and background colors ....................................................................712
Specifying background images ..................................................................................713
Part III: FrontPage .......................................................715
Chapter 14: Introducing FrontPage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .715
What Is FrontPage, Anyway? ...............................................................................................715
What You Should Know Before You Begin .........................................................................716
This is easier than you think .....................................................................................716
You don’t have to deal with HTML ............................................................................716
Staying organized ........................................................................................................717
Choosing where to publish a Web site .....................................................................717
A Word about FrontPage Server Extensions ............................................................718
Designing Web Pages and Web Sites ...................................................................................719
Consider the audience ................................................................................................719
Remember to be consistent .......................................................................................720
The home page as an introduction ...........................................................................720
Divide your Web site into distinct topics, one to a page .......................................720
Write the text and assemble the graphics beforehand ..........................................721
Keep it clean .................................................................................................................721
Creating and Opening a Web Site ........................................................................................722
Creating a so-called Web ............................................................................................722
Opening a Web site so that you can work on it .......................................................723
Handling the subfolders in a Web .............................................................................724
Importing files and folders to a Web .........................................................................724
Deleting and renaming Web sites ..............................................................................725
All about Web Pages .............................................................................................................725
Creating and naming Web pages ...............................................................................725
Handling and managing Web pages ..........................................................................726
Exploring the Different Views ..............................................................................................727
Tracking and Prioritizing Tasks ...........................................................................................728
Chapter 15: Laying Out a Web Page . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .731
Techniques for Laying Out Web Pages ...............................................................................731
Using layout tables for block layouts .......................................................................731
Using shared borders for consistent layouts ..........................................................733
Using layers to place elements on-screen ................................................................734
Using dynamic Web templates ..................................................................................736
Making Sure Your Web Site Is Compatible with Different Web Browsers ......................738
Optimizing pages for a particular browser ..............................................................738
Checking for browser compatibility problems ........................................................739
Manually testing pages in different browsers ..........................................................740
Applying Themes and Background Colors to Web Pages ................................................741
Applying a color or shade to page backgrounds ....................................................741
Applying a theme to different pages .........................................................................742
Style sheets for customizing themes ........................................................................743
Including Hyperlinks in Web Pages .....................................................................................744
The rules of hyperlinking ...........................................................................................744
Inserting a hyperlink ...................................................................................................744
Editing and removing hyperlinks ..............................................................................746
Entering a bookmark on a Web page ........................................................................746
Making It Easy for Visitors to E-Mail You ...........................................................................747
Chapter 16: Presenting the Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .749
Formatting and Positioning Text .........................................................................................749
Formatting and aligning text ......................................................................................749
Formatting with paragraph styles .............................................................................750
Working with Images .............................................................................................................751
Advice for choosing Web page art ............................................................................751
Placing art on a Web page ..........................................................................................752
Changing an image’s size ............................................................................................752
Positioning an image beside the text ........................................................................753
Wrapping text around an image ................................................................................753
Changing image formats .............................................................................................754
Creating Thumbnail Images .................................................................................................755
Inserting a Ruled Line ...........................................................................................................756
Creating a Navigation Bar ....................................................................................................756
Creating an Image Map .........................................................................................................758
Creating a hotspot and hyperlink ..............................................................................759
Adjusting the hotspots ...............................................................................................759
Chapter 17: Publishing and Maintaining a Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .761
Getting Ready to Publish a Web Site ...................................................................................761
Running a Site Summary report ................................................................................761
Recalculating the hyperlinks .....................................................................................762
Verifying and fixing hyperlinks ..................................................................................762
Check for uncompleted tasks ....................................................................................764
Setting Up FrontPage to Work with Your Web Server .......................................................764
Publishing a Web Site ...........................................................................................................765
Republishing a Web site .............................................................................................766
Synchronizing files on your computer and the Web server ..................................767
Promoting Your Web Site .....................................................................................................767
Helping search engines find your Web site ..............................................................767
Other ways to publicize a Web site ...........................................................................770
The Hit Parade: Keeping Track of Visitors .........................................................................770
FrontPage Usage reports ............................................................................................770
Site statistics provided by your Web host ...............................................................770
Placing a hit counter on a page .................................................................................771
Chapter 18: Forms and Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .773
Creating User-Input Forms ...................................................................................................773
Creating the form ........................................................................................................774
Specifying where form data is stored .......................................................................774
Behaviors for More Dynamic Web Pages ...........................................................................775
Behaviors and events .................................................................................................775
Making a behavior occur on a Web page .................................................................777
Part IV: Dreamweaver ....................................................779
Chapter 19: Getting to Know Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .779
What Is Dreamweaver and What Can It Do? ......................................................................779
Introducing the Document Window ....................................................................................779
Examining Your Site with the Site Window ........................................................................781
Choosing among Standard, Layout, and Expanded Tables Modes .................................783
Exploring Toolbar Buttons ...................................................................................................783
Using Panels, Bars, and Properties Inspectors .................................................................784
Panels and bars ...........................................................................................................784
Properties inspectors .................................................................................................785
Chapter 20: Creating Your First Web Site with Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .787
Starting Dreamweaver ..........................................................................................................787
Creating a New Site ...............................................................................................................787
Creating a New Document ....................................................................................................790
Adding Content to a Document ...........................................................................................791
Saving a Document ...............................................................................................................792
Previewing a Document in a Web Browser ........................................................................792
Chapter 21: Creating Basic Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .795
Customizing What You See in the Document Window .....................................................795
Turning rulers on and off ...........................................................................................795
Moving and resetting the origin ................................................................................795
Changing ruler measurement units ...........................................................................796
Viewing the grid ...........................................................................................................796
Activating and deactivating grid snapping ..............................................................796
Establishing Page Properties ...............................................................................................796
Entering Text .........................................................................................................................799
Inserting text ................................................................................................................799
Inserting a line break ..................................................................................................800
Deleting text and line breaks .....................................................................................800
Modifying text ..............................................................................................................800
Manipulating Images .............................................................................................................802
Inserting an image .......................................................................................................802
Deleting an image ........................................................................................................803
Modifying an image .....................................................................................................803
Working with Links ...............................................................................................................806
Inserting a link .............................................................................................................806
Deleting a link ..............................................................................................................807
Using named anchors .................................................................................................807
Working with Tables .............................................................................................................808
Inserting a table ...........................................................................................................808
Deleting a table ............................................................................................................809
Storing Information in Table Cells ......................................................................................809
Adding an image to a cell ...........................................................................................809
Adding text to a cell ....................................................................................................809
Deleting an image from a cell .....................................................................................809
Deleting text from a cell ..............................................................................................809
Chapter 22: Incorporating Interactive Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .811
Creating a Link from an Image .............................................................................................811
Creating Clickable Hotspots ................................................................................................812
Creating a hotspot .......................................................................................................812
Modifying a hotspot ....................................................................................................813
Adding Text Rollovers (Flash Text) ....................................................................................813
Adding Flash text .........................................................................................................814
Changing Flash text .....................................................................................................815
Playing (previewing) Flash text .................................................................................815
Adding Button Rollovers (Flash Buttons) ..........................................................................815
Adding a Flash button .................................................................................................815
Changing a Flash button .............................................................................................817
Modifying Flash button features ................................................................................817
Playing (previewing) a Flash button .........................................................................817
Inserting Image Rollovers ....................................................................................................817
Setting Up a Navigation Bar .................................................................................................819
Creating a new navigation bar ...................................................................................819
Modifying a navigation bar ........................................................................................821
Chapter 23: Adding Multimedia Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .823
Adding Audio and Video to Your Pages .............................................................................823
Embedding an audio or video clip ............................................................................824
Linking to an audio or video clip ...............................................................................825
Adding Other Media ..............................................................................................................826
Chapter 24: Punching Up Your Pages with Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .827
Incorporating Forms .............................................................................................................827
Adding a form ..............................................................................................................828
Specifying form properties .........................................................................................828
Labeling form objects .................................................................................................829
Using Text Fields ...................................................................................................................829
Setting Up Buttons ................................................................................................................830
Adding Form Elements .........................................................................................................831
Chapter 25: Laying Out Pages with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .833
Adding a Layer .......................................................................................................................833
Selecting a Layer ...................................................................................................................833
Deleting a Layer .....................................................................................................................834
Placing Objects in a Layer ....................................................................................................834
Including a Background Image or Color in a Layer ...........................................................834
Naming a Layer ......................................................................................................................835
Nesting Layers .......................................................................................................................835
Enabling nesting ..........................................................................................................835
Creating a new nested layer .......................................................................................836
Changing the nesting of an existing layer ................................................................836
Collapsing or expanding your view in the Layers panel ........................................837
Aligning Layers ......................................................................................................................837
Changing the Visibility of a Layer .......................................................................................838
Layering Layers: Setting the Z-Index ..................................................................................838
Moving a Layer ......................................................................................................................840
Resizing a Layer ....................................................................................................................840
Resizing Multiple Layers at the Same Time .......................................................................841
Chapter 26: Using Templates for a Consistent Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .843
About Templates ...................................................................................................................843
Creating and Using Templates .............................................................................................844
Creating a template .....................................................................................................844
Adding an editable region ..........................................................................................845
Using a Template to Create a Web Page .............................................................................846
Chapter 27: Publishing and Maintaining Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .849
Defining Remote Host Settings ............................................................................................849
Connecting to a Web Server ................................................................................................852
Transferring Files ..................................................................................................................853
Collaborating on Site Revisions ..........................................................................................854
Enabling file check in/check out ...............................................................................854
Checking files in and out ............................................................................................855
Maintaining Your Site ............................................................................................................855
Measuring download time ..........................................................................................855
Monitoring links ...........................................................................................................856
Setting up meta tags ....................................................................................................858
Index .......................................................................................859
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