This easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to build your Web site using HTML and XHTML basics, then takes you through adding images, using tables for data and layout, creating framesets, enhancing visuals with style sheets, embedding objects, and more.

This step-by-step resource takes the fear and mystery out of using markup languages HTML and XHTML to build Web sites—it will help you through the process with friendly and familiar terms and techniques. You’ll cover all the basics, learn to add links, images, and data, and move on to advanced techniques such as animation, image maps, and interactivity. Discover the XHTML 1.0 recommendations and the direction in which Web design is headed with XHTML 1.1 (XHTML Modularization) and the XHTML 2.0 working draft. Whatever your goals are, you’ll find what you need to accomplish them in How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML.

James H. Pence is a freelance writer and author of several books, including How to Do Everything with HTMLS and Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner’s Guide.