Return to Table of Contents Prerequisites: None
Audience: IS managers wanting to incorporate a Web site into their network, marketers looking to expand their company’s visibility and reach, advertisers needing a fresh and energized medium to present their product and individuals who want to learn how to build successful Web pages.
Course Length: 2 days
Securing Your Internet Connection is designed to:
Key topics:
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an overview of the World Wide Web·
visiting successful sites and planing for yours·
implementing the Web server·
basic html documents·
advanced html commands·
management issues
Course materials and services:
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student work book, Creating a Web Presence·
disk with useful Internet tools·
Web page created by student·
three months toll-free help-desk support on any of the topics covered during the course·
access to ’ Bulletin Board Service (BBS)
Course Outline
Overview
What is global hypermedia?
Quick demonstration — Accessing text, sounds, and images
Brief history and projected growth of Internet and World Wide Web
Review of what will and will not be covered in this class
Look at class tools and mention other Wave Internet offerings
Getting Started - Planning Your World Wide Web Page
Understanding what a Web Page offers
- What is HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
- What are Web clients (browsers) and servers?
- What are Universal Resource Locators (URL)?
- Introduction to HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- Understanding links
- Design and Implementation Considerations
- Identifying Your Objectives (Goal of page to be designed)
- Understanding Your Audience
- Dealing with a Changing Environment
Begin Planning Page
- Draft Home Page
- Overall Goals and Effect
- Logo
- Preview
- Links
- Determine Main Topics and Note Subtopics
- Separate Pages
- Bookmarks
- Choose Organization and Navigation Method
- Linear
- Tree
- Pyramid
HTML Fundamentals
Tags
- <HTML>
- <HEAD>
- <BODY>
- Adding Tags to Your Page
Text principles
- Title
- Headings
- Body
- Adding Text
Emphasis
- Italics
- Bold
- Lists
- Adding Emphasis
HTML Fundamentals continued
Layout
- Lines
- Spaces
- Blocking
- Adding Layout Components
Add text and formatting to additional pages (optional)
Learning from Strong Web Sites
Where do you find the best sites?
- Look at "Wave's top 10 sites"
- Search indexes by topic
What do good sites have in common?
- Clear idea of what they’re doing
- Consistent, clean style
- Reasonable use of graphics
- Added value
What resources are on the net to help Web spinners?
- HTML Primer
- Index of HTML Guides on the Internet
- Good style guide
- Bad style guides: What NOT to do!
Intermediate HTML
Interactive design principles
- Linking
- To Your Other Pages
- To External Sites
- To Bookmarks
- Adding Links
Graphic elements
- gifs
- jpeg
- Browse on-line graphics
- Convert .bmp to .gif
Color
- Backgrounds
- Text
- Change colors
Introduce image maps
Advanced HTML Features and Options
Forms
Netscape extensions
Sound files
Java