Building WWW Pages
Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
www.nvcc.edu/home/ nvwillj/designwww/
nvwillj@nvcc.edu
Next Class Sunday 3/5/00 from 9-4, Bisdorf building room 427.
Morning (9-noon)
Preliminaries
Your skills, what you want out of today
Windows 95 shortcut keys
Browser basics: right-clicking, location bar, view source
Bookmark our course page in your browser
Fundamentals
What is HTML?
Exercise: Hand code a simple page
- Extra: Short list of the most common HTML tags
- Tags and attributes of tags
Link syntax: Relative and absolute links
Table coding: <TABLE><TR> and <TD> tagsCommon technical layouts
Templates and color combinations
Suggested template for today
The browser-safe color chart
Site planning
(Note that we won't start making your site pages until after lunch)
Lunch and Yahoo/Geocities registration
Afternoon (1-4)
Helpful books and sites
Build a simple home page with AOLPress
Putting your site together.
Finding and using web graphics
Possibilities: Make a page with these graphic uses:
- Basic inserted clipart
- A clipart picture with a link
- An all-over background tile
- (optional) An image map
Uploading your pages to Yahoo/Geocities