Homepages for beginners, Johann-Christian Hanke

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• Internet and the world wide web – a short overview
• Structure and basic components of the world wide web

HTML, the language of the world wide web

• Why learn HTML ?

How do I get on the net

• Attractive web addresses cost a little extra

Is it all about homepage then? A short confusion of terms

• First the plan
• The project file

Lets work with the editor!

• Creating a new HTML document

Creating and structuring an HTML document.

• Important comments
• Headings
• Bold, italic and underscore
• Paragraphs and paragraph alignment
• Creating a new line
• Numbered and other lists
• Inserting lines
• The trick with spaces

Overview of the most important HTML commands How to add graphics to your HTML documents

• GIF, JPEG or PNG
• Which graphic program?
• Putting a graphic in a HTML document
• Width and height
• Entering a text alternative
• Small is beautiful

How to use background graphics

• The graphic is tiled!
• Textures as background designs

Hyperlinks – internal and external anchors and references

• References to your own pages
• References to pages in sub directories
• External Hyperlinks
• Opening a new window
• Internal page references
• The e-mail Link
• Links to a graphic
• Image Maps
• Overview of the most important HTML commands for anchors

Life gets colourful – colours for links and text

• Mixing hexadecimal colours
• The attributes in the body tag

More font format possibilities

• Further character formats with the FONT tag
• The PRE-Tag for fixed formatting
• More lists
• Running text (MARQUEE)
• Blink Text
• Lines

Tables as important tools of page formation

• Simple tables
• Fading out the grid lines
• Positioning tables
• Justifying table width and height
• Borders
• Inner- and outer borders
• Splitting cells
• Table colours

Creating response and evaluation forms

• The text input field
• The Radio buttons
• Check boxes
• Selection fields
• Sending back and submitting

Style Sheets – the clever format models for HTML

• Format models for Web-Pages
• More attributes for style sheets
• Paragraph and character formats
• References to external style sheets

Frames, movable part windows in Web-Pages

• References in the framesets

• References out of the frameset

Creating homepages with Word and StarWriter Effects, spice and dynamics for your homepage

• Visitors book and counters
• Links changing colour
• Script for a Ticker
• A Pull-Down-Menu
• Building in background sounds
• Banners and animations as GIF

How to register your page with search engines

• Here’s how you get on Yahoo
• Automatic registration

META-Tags as help for the search engines More graphic tips and tricks

• The clip board trick
• Setting the graphic background to transparent
• The graphic forms slowly

More recommended tools and web resources

• Specialist HTML editors (no prior HTML knowledge required)
• Tag orientated editors (require HTML knowledge)
• More Tools

Appendix: Faster progress with Homesite

• Setting up a page in Homesite
• Inserting hyperlinks
• Inserting graphics
• Text formatting
• Tables
• Forms
• Frames and Style Sheets

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