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    Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
    Dedication
    A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
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    How to use This Book: Intro
    1. Getting to Know HTML: The Language of the Web
    2. Going Further, with Hypertext: Meeting the ‘HT’ in HTML
    3. Building Blocks: Web Page Construction
    4. Getting Connected: A Trip to Webville
    5. Adding Images to Your Pages: Meeting the Media
    How the browser works with images
    How images work
    <img>: it’s not just relative links anymore
    Always provide an alternative
    Sizing up your images
    Creating the ultimate fan site: myPod
    Check out myPod’s “index.html” file
    Whoa! The image is way too large
    Resize the image to fit in the browser
    Open the image
    Resizing the image
    Resizing the image, continued...
    You’ve resized - now save
    Save the image
    Fixing up the myPod HTML
    And now for the test drive...
    More photos for myPod
    Taking myPod for another test drive
    Reworking the site to use thumbnails
    Create the thumbnails
    Rework the HTML to use the thumbnails
    Take myPod for another test drive
    Turning the thumbnails into links
    Create individual pages for the photos
    So, how do I make links out of images?
    Add the image links to “index.html”
    Open the myPod logo
    What format should we use?
    To be transparent, or not to be transparent? That is the question...
    Save the transparent GIF
    Wait, what is the color of the Web page background?
    Set the matte color
    Set the matte color, continued
    Check out the logo with a matte
    Save the logo
    Add the logo to the myPod Web page
    And now for the final test drive
    6. Standards, Compliance, and all that Jazz: Serious HTML
    7. Moving to XHTML: Putting an ‘X’ into HTML
    8. Getting Started with CSS: Adding a Little Style
    9. Styling with Fonts and Colors: Expanding your Vocabulary
    10. The Box Model: Getting Intimate with Elements
    11. Divs and Spans: Advanced Web Construction
    12. Layout and Positioning: Arranging Elements
    13. Tables and More Lists: Getting Tabular
    14. XHTML Forms: Getting Interactive
    A. Leftovers: The Top Ten Topics (we didn’t cover)
    Index
    About the Authors
    Copyright
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    5. Adding Images to Your Pages: Meeting ... > To be transparent, or not to be tran...

    To be transparent, or not to be transparent? That is the question...

    The myPod logo is going to be placed on a light green background, so you might think that transparency is going to be a good thing, right? Well, let’s compare how the logo looks using a few options in the “Save for Web” dialog:

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