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History of the Internet and WWW

What is HTML?

Exercise: Hand-code your own page

Simple freeware WYSIWYG editors

Exercise: Make a page with AOLPress

Code references

Browser versions

FTP

Link syntax and file naming


HTML Basics


Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
www.nvcc.edu/home/nvwillj/html-basics/
nvwillj@nvcc.edu


Exercise: Make a simple page in FrontPage

1. Start FrontPage. The first thing you will see is the FrontPage Explorer. We're going to skip that for now; choose Tools/Show FrontPage Editor or click on the scroll and feather pen in the toolbar, highlighted below:

FrontPage editor icon

(The icon to its right is for the FP graphics package called Image Composer)

2. If the editor loads a page with some stuff on it, call me over - I'll need to turn off some Explorer settings.

3. Put the items in the table into your page.


Technical term
Content
A heading (use #1 above)

A paragraph break (Enter) 

A line break (Shift-Enter)

Jeff Williamson 

3001 N. Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA  22311

a list (type several lines with Enter pressed between them, then highlight the group and use #2 above) My favorite hobbies 
  • sitting 
  • yak roping 
an external link to someplace on the web (highlight text to be linked, then #3 above) My favorite hobbies 
A pre-made graphic (#4 above)

NOTE: I'll show you how to steal graphics in class.

My favorite hobbies 
A horizontal line (Insert menu)
A 1-cell table with something witty inside (Table menu) see below
A signature with mailto: link (like a link, but type mailto:me@aol.com) Last modified 9/11/97  Owner and comments: nvwillj@nvcc.edu

 

 

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