This book provides every reason what the Internet can do, right now. The Definitive guide. Its 15 chapters and six appendices provide plenty of details and help just when you need that exact answer right away. The first half of the book looks at HTML basics - how to deal with layout of text, links, graphics, and other fundamentals. The second half treats lists, style sheets, forms, tables, frames, applets, and a few tricks.
Appendices look at HTML conventions, tags, character entities, and colors, among other topics.
A quick reference card, inserted at the back of book, provides help to the impatient. Like all O'Reilly books, this guide is nicely designed to open flat, with lots of illustrations and HTML examples embedded throughout. You too will somehow find a place for it within arm's length. Battle of the e-mail protocols. For those working with X.400 backbones and for those without a link to the Internet, this book provides a good explanation of electronic mail and its mechanics.