My Website Is Better Than Yours - Errata

Oops, we missed a few things:

Everyone makes mistakes, including the people who proofread this book. Here is a list of the errors that we (and some sharp readers) caught after the book was published.

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Page 36: a table states that #999999 is medium gray and at the bottom of the page we say #C0C0C0 is medium gray. While both are true the two different hex codes will display slightly different shades of medium gray. See this Hex Color Chart for more details.
Page 38: There is an example in HTML of using bold and italics yet the example is all in plain text. This should be shown as follows.
You

can

combine

boldface

and italics.
Page 44: Figure 3.7 is supposed to be that of an example Website but shows a diagram from GIF Animator.
Page 45: Figure 3.8 should be an updated version of the example Website but is a demonstration of DHTML.
Page 52: Table 4.1 should be numbered 4.3 and read "Additional attributes of the <td> tag"
Page 89: The caption numbered Figure 7.2 should be numbered Figure 7.3 and should read as follows:
"The appearance of the four font families"
Page 90: The caption numbered Table 7.2 should be numbered 7.4
NOTE: The inset references Figure 7.3 which appears on page 89 and is incorrectly numbered 7.2
Page 125: Section entitled "Restricting Text Box Input", first paragraph, line 4: the M-dash after "it" has two closing square brackets that should be ommitted.
Page 144: The second figure on the page should be labeled "Figure 10.3" and the caption changed to "Yahoo! Stores are another option for selling online".
Page 171: The link referenced in the 3rd bullet should be http://www.amazon.com/gp/cart/view.html/....
Page 189: First line of text: " ... chapters n this book ..." should be "...chapters in this book..."
Page 191: First line in the paragraph under \"The Page Content\" section, "...is done is the simplest..." should be "...is done in the simplest..."