HTML Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition

By Rick Darnell, et al.
Sams.net Publishing
ISBN: 1-57521-380-X
Out: December, 1997

HTML Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition is an exhaustive resource covering all aspects of HTML 4.0 theory and practice: structural and navigational elements, interactivity and CGI, JavaScript and VBScript, dynamic HTML, presentation techniques, page design, XML, and more.  Here you can read sample chapters by one of the book's authors, Dmitry Kirsanov, from the part entitled "Advanced Techniques". 

Samples

Chapter 42: Creating Widely Accessible Web Pages

This chapter summarizes the techniques and approaches used to make web pages, without sacrificing their presentational sophistication, more accessible to people with physical disabilities.  With the recent launch of W3 Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), focusing on reconsidering web standards from the accessibility viewpoint, all webmasters and web designers should be aware of the needs of the disabled.

Chapter 43: Strategies for Indexing and Search Engines

For users, search engines are one of the major web tools; for webmasters, they are one of the most important sources of traffic and visibility. Read this chapter to learn all about luring search spiders, efficient keyword strategies, using META tags, and other secrets of search-friendly HTML design.