Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Copyright -- Title -- Is your organisation a corporate member of Aslib? -- About the author -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. What is the Internet, and where does the Web fit into it? -- What is hypertext? -- What does the Web cover? -- 2. Using the World Wide Web as a Web author -- 1. You opened your browser -- 2. You may have gone to your bookmark/favourites utility to call up a site -- 3. You might have typed in a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and hit enter to go directly to an often visited site -- 4. Perhaps you went to your favourite search engine and did a search -- 5. You visited the site of your choice -- 6. You looked at the site (obviously!) -- 7. Did you trust the information that you found? -- 8. Did you follow any links? -- 9. Was any multimedia used? -- 3. First steps in designing your Web page -- 3.1 Initial Design -- 3.1.1 Purpose of the site -- 3.1.2 An organisational site -- 3.1.3 An advertising site -- 3.1.4 A personal home page -- 3.1.5 A launchpad site -- 3.1.6 An Intranet site -- 3.2 The audience -- 3.3 Planning the site -- 3.4 Planning each individual page -- 3.4.1 Consistency -- 3.4.2 The text -- 3.4.3 The background -- 3.4.4 Graphics -- 3.4.5 Frames -- 3.4.6 JavaScript -- 3.4.7 Forms -- 3.4.8 Access counters -- 3.4.9 Mailto: forms -- 3.4.10 Links -- 3.4.11 Page length -- 4. Working with the search engines -- Checking your ranking -- Other search engines -- Importing pages from elsewhere -- 5. Writing Web pages -- Tools of the trade -- An example home page -- Adding graphics -- Adding links -- Lists -- 6. Forms -- 7. Tables -- Cell alignment -- Spanning rows and columns -- Table sizes -- Other table attributes -- 8. Colour on your pages -- Background images -- Background colours -- Text colours -- 9. Frames -- 10. JavaScript and CGI -- JavaScript -- CGI Scripting.

How CGI scripts work -- 11. Meta tags -- What does a meta tag look like? -- What can I include in a meta tag? -- Other optional tags -- 12. Publishing your pages -- What makes a good domain name? -- Should I chose .com, .co.uk, .org or .org.uk? -- Choosing a web hosting service -- Preparing your site for publication -- Relative or absolute URL's? -- Naming your files -- Uploading the pages to your webspace -- Testing your pages -- Registering your site with search engines -- Registering manually -- Automatic registration -- To register or not to register -- Checking your positioning -- 13. Authoring tools -- 14. Adding multimedia to a page -- Adding sound -- Other ways of providing sound -- Adding video to a page -- 15. Further resources -- Creating entire web pages -- Creating tables -- Colour on your pages -- Creating frames pages -- Graphics libraries -- Adding sound -- JavaScript and CGI scripts -- FTP Packages -- Registering with Search Engines -- Checking page positioning with search engines -- Rating your pages -- Legal issues -- Page checkers -- Publicising your site -- General information on HTML and Web page design -- Access analysers -- Authoring tools -- Newsgroups -- Aslib Know How Guides.