| AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET AND
THE WEB
Defining the terminology
A brief history of the Internet
Connecting to the Internet
DESIGN ISSUES ON THE WEB
Limitations of layout
Browser variations
Screen resolutions
HOW HTML IS WRITTEN
Tools: NotePad, SimpleText, HomeSite, Dreamweaver, FrontPage etc
The basic HTML document. Head and Body sections
File naming conventions
Block level elements: Creating paragraphs and Headings
Using attributes
Previewing in the browser
Basic text formatting – Bold, Italic etc
Working with special characters, creating line breaks and horizontal rules
Lists – ordered, unordered and Definition
USING COLOUR ON THE WEB
Limitations and the Websafe palette
Hexadecimal notation
Setting a background page colour
Colour and text – the Font tag
CREATING HYPERTEXT LINKS
Simple page to page links
Links to external sites
E-mail links
Anchor links – in and across pages
The target attribute - _blank and _self
Setting default link colours |
IMAGES ON THE WEB
Available file formats and their uses and limitations
Inserting an image
Image attributes
Images as hyperlinks
Aligning text with images
Creating image maps
TABLES
Creating simple text tables
Table and cell properties – alignment of content, size, column headings
Using tables for page layout
Nested tables
FORMS
How forms work with CGI and other scripts
Building the form elements – text fields, select menus, radio buttons,
checkboxes
Making the form work – the ‘action’ attribute
FRAMES
What Framesets are – the pros and cons of using them
Creating frames and targeting links within framesets
Formatting framesets
STYLE SHEETS
What are Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets
Uploading your site
Using FTP to publish your Website
FTP software (WS_FTP, Fetch, FTP in Dreamweaver)
Site layout and testing |
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