Creating Web Pages For Dummies

Bud E. Smith, Arthur Bebak9780764573279, 0764573276

Creating Web pages isn’t just for nerds anymore – far from it. You can’t get far in any hobby without participating in its Web community; even the smallest businesses need good-looking, functional Web sites. Those facts mean you must be able to do your own site-building work, and Creating Web Pages for Dummies exists to share the skills you need to learn. This book goes a long way toward explaining Web publishing to newcomers to the field. It is not, however, much of an introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or any other site development language, and you’ll soon find yourself wishing for more information on the low-level code that makes your pages look and act the way they do.Instead of focusing on HTML (see Elizabeth Castro’s excellent HTML 4 for the World Wide Web for that), this book emphasizes Web services (such as America Online and GeoCities) that will help you publish your pages, as well as page-design software (such as Microsoft FrontPage Express and Netscape Composer). Coverage is generally too basic – the logic is that if you’re thinking about publishing your own Web pages you don’t need step-by-step instructions on how to enter body text into FrontPage Express. General advice is good, however, and prospective page creators can learn a thing or two about good page design from the authors’ advice.

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Table of contents :
Team DDU……Page 1
Table of Contents……Page 12
Introduction……Page 20
Part I: Create a Web Page Today……Page 26
1: Web Page Publishing Basics……Page 28
2: Going Worldwide with GeoCities……Page 48
3: Web Publishing with AOL and Other ISPs……Page 64
4: Introduction to HTML……Page 82
Part II: Building Pages……Page 108
5: Choosing Your Tools……Page 110
6: Creating Your Home Page……Page 128
7: Filling In Your Home Page……Page 146
8: Adding Links to Your Web Page……Page 164
Part III: Better, Stronger, Faster Pages……Page 178
9: Creating and Adding Web-Ready Graphics……Page 180
10: Placing Graphics Right (And Left)……Page 198
11: Designing a Good-Looking Page……Page 208
12: Publishing Your Web Pages……Page 224
Part IV: Getting Interactive……Page 238
13: Adding Animation and Multimedia……Page 240
14: Adding More Interactivity……Page 254
15: Creating a Full Web Site……Page 264
16: Becoming a Wizard with Blogs……Page 284
Part V: The Part of Tens……Page 298
17: Ten Web Publishing DO’s……Page 300
18: Ten Web Publishing DON’Ts……Page 306
Part VI: Appendixes……Page 312
Appendix A: Web Words Worth Knowing……Page 314
Appendix B: Internet Service Providers……Page 322
Appendix C: A Quick Guide to HTML Tags……Page 324
Appendix D: Using Resource.htm……Page 344
Appendix E: About the CD-ROM……Page 354
Index……Page 364
Wiley Publishing, Inc. End-User License Agreement……Page 382