Goals

• to learn to use appropriate tools for viewing and editing WWW pages
• to create a simple home page, which you can begin to develop
• to learn basic techniques that will allow you to develop your page
• to learn where to turn for assistance as you work on your own

Outline

1. Orientation to the World Wide Web
2. Creating a First Page
3. A Look at Future Possibilities
4. Resources

Orientation to the World Wide Web

• Primary Functions of a Home Page
  • Convenience
  • Publicity
• Web Browsers are used to view web pages:
  • Firefox and Internet Explorer: High-End Browsers
  • Lynx: The Lowest Common Denominator (no graphics)
• Editors are used to change web pages:
  • Your Favorite Word Processor (saving as ASCII text)
  • Pico: The Lowest Common Denominator
  • WYSIWYG Editors: What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get Editing, in NVu, Dreamweaver, etc.
• Web pages are usually written in Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)
• HTML is composed of Tags (all the things in <angle-brackets>)

Creating a First Page

• Logging In to Our Accounts
• Basic Unix commands:
• Creating a Directory and a File
• Locations: URLs and Pathnames
• Moving Files with FTP
• Recommended Basic Structure of a Page
• Creating Links to Other Documents
• Including Pictures
• Using a WYSIWYG Web Editor
• Arranging Links to Your Home Page

A Look at Future Possibilities

• Considerations in Planning Your Own Web
• Uploading Files
• Ways to Do a Curriculum Vitae
• Simple Table Layout
• Other Possibilities: Sound, Movies, Clickable Images

Resources

• On-Line Resources:
  • Above all, the Beginner's Guide to HTML from NCSA
  • HTML Style Guide
  • The Web Tutorial assembled by SAS Computing Help Desk
  • Web Support Services for Course Home Pages at Penn
  • Web Course in a Box from Virginia Commonwealth University
  • HTML Documentation by Ian S. Graham
  • This web (the Home Page Workshop web)
  • This web's Improving Your Home Page page
  • Other On-Line Resources
• Resource People:
  • Your Local Support Provider
  • Every other high school kid
  • Jay Treat for instructional computing.

Last Modified: February 29, 2008

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