CREATING SIMPLE WEB PAGES WITH NETSCAPE COMPOSER

CONTENTS

Introduction

• About this tutorial
• Prerequisites

 

Lesson 1. Getting Started

1. Starting up
2. Saving and browsing your page
3. Entering text
4. Creating links
5. Inserting images
6. Making a link from an image

 

Lesson 2. Individualizing your Page

1. Adding title and author identification
2. Changing the background  of your page
3. Paragraph properties: Headings and addresses; alignment; preformatted text
4. The mailto: URL
5. Image ALTernatives

 

Lesson 3. Improving your page - Creating lists and tables; Navigation

1. Types of lists
2. Bulleted lists
3. Numbered lists
4. Description lists
5. Creating basic tables
6. Links within a page

 

Lesson 4. Two Views:   Behind the Scenes: HTML codes

1. Basic concepts: Markup tags
2. Viewing and editing your document source
3. Document tags
4. Basic text structures, images,  and property tags
5. External and internal links: Anchors and name tags

 

Lesson 5.  Advanced topics

1. Inserting special characters: text entities and ISO 8859
2. Custom colors: RGB coding and hexadecimal values
3. Lists: unordered, ordered, and definition list tags
4. Table HTML code:  basic table structure tags

 

Lesson 6.  The Big Picture: Creating a Site

1. Style considerations
2. Using templates

 

Selected Resources

• Policies
• Basic Style and Design Guidelines
• References
• General Resource Sites
• Clip Art Collections at Barry's Clip Art Server

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