Special Edition Using HTML & XHTML is a comprehensive Web publishing reference, providing practical solutions to real-world Web development problems. Author Molly Holzschlag starts by explaining how XHTML differs from HTML and why it's necessary, but quickly moves beyond a mere comparison of the differences. The reader learns which tools are best, how to code HTML & XHTML, and the basic principles of Web publishing and graphic design. The book also shows how to integrate graphics, stylesheets, frames and multimedia into XHTML Web pages. Later chapters cover XHTML's relationship to XML and creating content for alternative devices including pagers, cell phones, and hand held devices.

A writer, instructor, and designer, Molly E. Holzschlag brings attitude and enthusiasm to books, magazines, classrooms, and Web sites. Honored by Webgrrls as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web, Molly has spent over a decade working in the online world. She has written 20 books on HTML and Web design and development topics, including the best-selling Special Edition Using HTML 4.0 and the internationally acclaimed Web by Design. Molly's popular column of 2 1/2 years, "Integrated Design," appeared monthly in the internationally popular WebTechniques Magazine, until the magazine's closing in early 2002. Molly served for a year as the executive editor of Web Review, and has contributed features and columns to Adobe Studios, Adobe.com, Builder.Com, Digital Chicago, Digital New York, IBM developerWorks, MacWorld, MSDN, PC Magazine, and other developer publications. When offline, Molly plays guitar and sings in the original acoustic duo Courage Sisters. For books, giveaways, training, speaking events, and other items of fun and interest, drop by her Web site at (where else?) http://www.molly.com.

Introduction. I. WEB MARKUP FOR PROFESSIONALS. 1. Working with Specifications. 2. Writing Conforming Documents. 3. Dealing with Data Types. 4. Choosing the Right DTD. II. STRUCTURING AND FORMATTING DOCUMENTS. 5. Global Structure and Syntax of Documents. 6. Managing Text and Lists. 7. Adding Hypertext and Independent Links. 8. Working with Tables. 9. Creating Framesets and Frame Documents. 10. Building Forms. III. IMAGES, MULTIMEDIA, AND EMBEDDED OBJECTS. 11. Adding Images. 12. Working with Multimedia. 13. Embedding Objects. IV. STYLE AND SCRIPTING. 14. Using CSS with HTML and XHTML. 15. CSS in Depth: Applying Style and Positioning. 16. Adding Scripting to HTML and XHTML Documents. V. ACCESSIBILITY AND INTERNATIONALIZATION. 17. Creating Accessible Sites. 18. Designing International Documents. VI. ADVANCED CONCEPTS. 19. XHTML Modularization. 20. Customizing DTDs. 21. Transforming Documents with XSLT. 22. Moving Toward XML. VII. APPENDIXES. Appendix A. Site Publishing, Maintenance, and Marketing Guide. Appendix B. Annotated Resources for Web Developers. Appendix C. XHTML Reference. Appendix D. CSS2 Reference. Index.