Have you always wanted to built your own website from scratch? Without the help of editors? Or do you need to know a little bit HTML for your daily work? This step by step course will explain it to you in 19 steps.
I’ve worked as a web designer for over 15 years and have been working as an online editor for 3 additional years. I use HTML daily, but this course was written at the early stages of my career. It’ll teach you all the basics and prepare you for the rest.
Centering text or other parts of your design is very simple. To center everything in my index.html I add this: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>my own homepage</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND=”images/background.gif” BGCOLOR=”#FFFFE1″ TEXT=”#808080″ LINK=”#FF9B6A” ALINK=”#FF9B6A” VLINK=”#FF0000″> <CENTER> <FONT FACE=”Verdana” SIZE=2> <H2>A short introduction</H2>… Read on
Every once in a while it’s necessary to show information as a list. You do this with one of the LIST-tags. There are three kinds: A numbered list is added to index.html like this: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>my own homepage</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY… Read on
To my index.html document I’d like to add a graphic. Graphics and photos are being applied the exact same way. The only difference is the image itself. When it’s an animated or computer made image, than we call it a… Read on
In my index.html document I’d like the change parts of the last two lines of text to links. I’d like one link to go to my homepage, and I want the other to go to my e-mail address. Linking my… Read on
With the previous step we’ve used a link to e-mail someone. This link will open the default e-mailprogram your visitor uses. You can also send an e-mail using an online e-mail form. Online forms can be used for various purposes.… Read on
Sometimes, may want to add more structure to the way your text is formatted. For instance, when you have data to display. You might not want it displayed using the full screen width, but you want to show it in… Read on
In some cases it’s easier to work with frames. This is one of the most complex features of HTML. A homepage built out of frames uses more than one HTML file. The first HTML file is the one that will… Read on
There are various ways to place your homepage onto the web. The two currently commonly used are uploading through a control panel your ISP/host installed for you or through using FTP; the File Transport Protocol. FTP is the easiest to… Read on
A finished website will not immediately attract visitors. No one knows about it yet. There are thousands of search engines on the web. Yahoo, Google, Bing, MSN and Lycos are a few of the best known engines. Some search engines are… Read on
META-tags offer more possibilites than promoting your site to search engines. You can also identify yourself as the author of the document: <META NAME=”author” CONTENT=”Nora Tol”> As well as claim the copyright of it: <META name=”copyright” content=”Nora Tol Virtual Publishing”> But… Read on
