Basic HTML Workshop
Presented by John & Susan Howell, Kansas on the Net (KOTN)
This workshop manual is on the web at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/lessons/
Purpose of this Workshop
- This training is for the beginner who wants to design or maintain web pages. The ultimate goal is to guide the beginner toward building good, clear, well-designed web pages. In addition, the appendices and references provide a start toward continuing independent study in the area.
- Understand the basics of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- Be able to create web pages that adhere to good design principles
- Understand the process for uploading HTML pages to a web server.
- How to process an image for the web,
- Cascading Style Sheets (which are being used with more frequency),
- How to make things blink and generally annoy your audience,
- Any web design methods beyond basic HTML (of which there are a lot).
- Introduction to HTML
- Using basic tags to format web pages.
- Putting lists in your web pages.
- Adding images to your pages.
- Setting the background color and wallpaper.
- Using hypertext links to other web pages.
- Using tables to control page layout
- Changing the fonts on your page
- Designing good pages: Images, hypermedia, web cliches, consistent layout.
- Appendices to the Basic HTML Workshop - Help setting up your PC for web work, graphics, search engines, useful web page tricks, advanced topics, and more.
- A workshop on Polishing Your Web Site - includes planning, templates, getting rid of errors, accessibility, cascading style sheets, and more.
- Firefox (Mozilla) Free Browser - can add a website developers' toolbar
- Blue Skyways
Train Station - About computing, the internet, & HTML
and Steps to Publishing on Blue Skyways - Complete Index of HTML Tags
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for accessibility: validate your site.
- Web Monkey - "A How-to Guide for Web Developers"
- The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
- Yale C/AIM Web Style Manual
- A List Apart - Articles about "design, code, & content"
- Icon Bazaar - clip art
- The Open Directory Project - register your site.
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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Ed.
by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy ISBN 0-596=00382-X HTML for the World Wide Web... 5th Ed. by Elizabeth Castro ISBN 0-321-13007-3 Web Style Guide, 2nd Ed. by Partrick J. Lynch & Sarah Horton ISBN 0-300-07674-6 (cloth), 0-300-07675-4 (paper) |
Don't Make Me Think
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug ISBN 0-7897-2310-7 Web Pages That Suck Learn good design by looking at bad design by Vincent Flanders & Michael Willis ISBN 0-7821-2187-X Son of Web Pages That Suck by Vincent Flanders & Dean Peters ISBN 0-7821-4020-3 |
These lessons were originally adapted from training material developed by Jameson Watkins and others at KUMC for Blue Skyways.
