Creating Web Pages For Dummies^®, 9th Edition

by Bud E. Smith (London, England)

• ISBN13: 9780470440025
• ISBN10: 0470440023
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

It's easy to design, build, and post a Web page with Google Page Creator or CoffeeCup HTML Editor, but a friendly guide still comes in handy. Creating Web Pages For Dummiesr, 9th Edition introduces you to Web design software and online page-building tools, and walks you through the process in record time.Like its previous editions, this book gives you the skinny on getting Web pages up and running with the least amount of hassle. But not just ho-hum Web pages! Yours will look fantastic and be easy to build, and you'll even get a trial version of CoffeeCup HTML Editor and visual design tools on the bonus CD. You'll learn to: Get a simple page designed and online by the end of Chapter 3 Optimize photos, video, and audio for the Web and get them onto your page Register for a Google account and use the versatile Google Page Creator Build pages using basic HTML or CoffeeCup HTML Editor Identify and apply elements of design, avoid common errors, and create pages that get noticed Maintain control by creating and editing pages in HTML with a text editor Understand how image file size affects your pages, how to upload photos to Flickr, and how to add sound and video files to your Web pages Develop your pages into a site with CoffeeCup HTML Editor and Visual EditorYou'll even find out more about blogging and Blogger.com. The trial software on the CD is for Windows, but the instructions for building great Web pages work on any system!

Table of Contents

Introduction

Create a Web Page Today

Web Publishing Basics

Designing Your Online Look

A Fast and Easy Page with Google Page Creator

Get ting the Content Right

Words and Blogs

Using Images and Uploading Photos to Flickr

Playing Sounds on Your Site

Screening Videos on Your Site

Your Site in WYSIWYG

Using a WYSIWYG Editor

Creating a WYSIWYG Page

Graphics and Media, WYSIWYG Style

Laying Out Your Site in WYSIWYG

Your Site in HTML

Using a Text Editor

Creating a WYSIWYG Page

Graphics and Media in HTML

Laying Out Your Site in HTML

The Part of Tens

Ten Web-Publishing Dos and Don'ts

Ten Places to Host Your Page

Ten Ways to Make Your Page a Site

Appendixes

Web Words Worth Knowing

A Quick Guide to HTML Tags

About the CD-ROM

Index

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