Creating Web Pages For Dummies - Softcover

Smith, Bud E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470385359 ISBN 13: 9780470385357

Publisher: For Dummies, 2008

Synopsis

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 Dummies®, 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 Editor

You’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!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

About this title

Review

The authors of Creating Web Pages for Dummies deserve compliments for their refusal to sugarcoat Web page design through reliance upon visual editing tools. They come right out of the gate and teach HTML--a simple, limited subset of the whole language to be sure, but enough of the language of Web publishing to get readers going. Further, this simple but earnest introduction reveals HTML concepts that readers will need to understand before they explore more complicated aspects of the language.

In addition to teaching the fundamentals of page design and creation, Smith and Bebak spend some time explaining how to get pages onto the Web. They detail the mechanics of using no-charge page publishers like GeoCities, then go on to explain how to publish a page on AOL or Prodigy.

One section of this book deals with HTML development tools (the opening chapter is called "Be True to Your Tool"--go figure). The authors cover NaviPress, PageMill, HotDog, and BBEdit in depth, and address a few more development tools briefly. Unfortunately, the reader is left wondering what happened to coverage of FrontPage--a very popular development tool that many people already own.

A companion CD-ROM holds some page-editing tools, including a PageMill demo, a HotDog Demo, BBEdit Lite, and various other software.

If you represent a business, you'll probably want a more comprehensive text that will enable you to project a more professional image on the Web. But if you're a person who wants to publish a home page, this book will serve you well. --David Wall

From the Back Cover

Learn to:

• Design, build, and post a Web page
• Build pages using HTML, Web design software, and online tools
• Optimize photos, video, and audio for the Web and get them onto your page
• Experiment with the page-building software covered in the book and found on the bonus CD

Spin a great Web page quickly and easily with this friendly guide!

You don't need to be a pro designer to create your own Web page. This book guides you past the pitfalls of page design and construction so you can get online with as little hassle as possible. Whether you want to go "old school" and use HTML, experiment with online design options, or try one of the easy editing tools included on the CD, you will find the secrets to great pages right here!

• Get started decide what kind of page you want to build and get a finished product online quickly with Google Page Creator™
• Be designing learn elements of design, common errors to avoid, and how to create pages that get noticed
• Expand the possibilities create photo, audio, and video content that works for your page and find online resources for storing your files
• Get down to basics maintain control by creating and editing pages in HTML with a text editor
• Take a ride on easy street develop your pages with the bonus CD's simple tools designed for beginning Web builders

Open the book and find:

• Tips for picking the type of page you want to build
• Insight on designing an attractive and easy-to-use page
• Secrets of writing for the Web
• Ways to get your photos, video, and audio files ready for your page
• Step-by-step instructions on building a page with HTML, design software, and online tools
• Trial versions of the design software covered in the book
• The best places to post your page after you're finished

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470385359
• ISBN 13: 9780470385357
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 318