HTML 4_01 Weekend Crash Course - G. Perry
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Part I – Friday Evening ..................................................................................... |
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Session 1–HTML and the Web ................................................................................. |
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Become an HTML Programmer! ......................................................................... |
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What Exactly Is HTML? ..................................................................................... |
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HTML’s background ........................................................................................ |
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HTML tags format data ................................................................................... |
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Text Editors and Other Programs..................................................................... |
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Session 2–HTML for Web Page Creation................................................................ |
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Creating a Web Page ....................................................................................... |
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Minimum HTML ........................................................................................... |
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Viewing your page........................................................................................ |
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Adding Formatting Command Tags .................................................................. |
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Head and title tags....................................................................................... |
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A more complete example ............................................................................. |
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The Browser Determines the Language............................................................ |
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Session 3–Web Page Design.................................................................................. |
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Considering Your Environment ....................................................................... |
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What’s an HTML programmer to do? ............................................................... |
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A world without images ................................................................................ |
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Validating Your Page ...................................................................................... |
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Initial Design Considerations.......................................................................... |
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Web structures............................................................................................. |
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The Web page design walkthrough ................................................................. |
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Publishing Web Pages..................................................................................... |
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Available Free Hosts ....................................................................................... |
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Session 4–Maintaining and Improving Your Web Site .......................................... |
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Success Means Constant Web Site Maintenance................................................ |
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The Best Way to Organize Your Files and Folders ............................................. |
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Should You Turn Your Computer into a Local Web Server?................................ |
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The Ever-Changing HTML................................................................................ |
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S E S S I O N
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HTML and the Web
Session Checklist
Learn the job of the HTML programmer
Understand what HTML is and its purpose
Recognize how text editors and other programs work to help create HTML
Do you want to become an HTML programmer? If so, you must tackle HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). Fortunately, HTML 4.01 is more powerful than the versions that came before it, as well as much simpler to learn than
typical computer programming languages such as C or Visual Basic. As this weekend crash course proves, you can go from knowing nothing about HTML to designing and producing Web pages in one short weekend.
As you will see in this session, the HTML language has gone through several improvements and each revision serves to make Web pages more interactive with the user and to present data more effectively. That data can be text, graphics, sound, video, or a combination of all four. Although today’s HTML differs quite a bit from the first version, the majority of the original language elements are still in use.
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Some people say that you don’t need HTML anymore, and that too many graphical Web page design tools exist that make HTML unnecessary. To set your mind at ease considering that you’ve now spent the money for this course, you won’t find any serious Web designer who doesn’t work with HTML almost daily. In addition, as you will soon learn, the Web would not and could not even exist without HTML.
Become an HTML Programmer!
An HTML programmer designs, produces, and maintains Web pages. As you know from surfing the Web already, most Web sites are not single Web pages but collections of pages. A Web site consists of a series of related Web pages that users traverse, backwards and forwards, in virtually any order.
The HTML programmer’s job changes almost daily. A programmer might find himself or herself performing one or more of the following HTML-related tasks daily:
Designing new Web pages for their clients who want to present information on the Web
Learning new HTML extensions, tools, and tricks that help get the Webmastering job done faster and more accurately
Maintaining existing Web sites by editing the code to correct problems and to present fresh material
The more often you put fresh material on a Web site, the more likely users are to return to the site.
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The term maintenance refers to the process of changing and updating existing Web sites to keep their content fresh, and correcting mistakes found in them. Those mistakes might be typical computer bugs that keep the Web site from operating exactly right or may be nothing more than a spelling mistake or a color-blending problem from a bad graphic image.
Perhaps you want to create Web pages for your company’s business. Perhaps you want to put your family news on the Internet so friends and family around the world will be able to see the news. Perhaps you want to make money — a lot