Creating Web Pages For Dummies - Softcover

Smith, Bud E.; Bebak, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764507338 ISBN 13: 9780764507335

Publisher: For Dummies, 2000

Synopsis

The Web is the most sophisticated, most open, and simplest publishing medium ever created, an endless set of criss-crossing interconnections between an ever-growing number of points, and a community in the truest sense of the word. Your Web page can be your platform to say or show whatever you want to the millions of people with access to the global Internet. You can talk about yourself or your business. You can publish a short story or a collection of jokes. You can show pictures of your dog or of your company’s latest product. Your own imagination is the only limit to what you can put on the Web.

If you've used the Web before and you're now ready to step out into the big wide online world with your own page, Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 6th Edition, is the place where you can nudge your wishes into reality. Without any previous experience (or painful technical instructions), you can get on track to

• Tackling just enough HTML to format with the best of 'em
• Incorporating graphics, sound, and video into your pages
• Providing links to other sites
• Putting to good use Web publishing tools that can relieve your workload
• Designing and delivering pages that people will want to revisit

Informative, educational, and just plain fun, Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 6th Edition, covers Web page topics from beginning through intermediate levels, including how to

• Put together a Web publishing plan
• Use half a dozen different tools
• Publish a Web page via Web-based services and the major online services
• Expand your page to a full Web site
• Add interactive features and invite feedback
• Keep your page current and in good working order

The revised and updated content in this edition also features the latest on building AOL and GeoCities pages, plus insight into adding the multimedia features that's amaze your visitors. The book includes a CD-ROM that's loaded with a variety of PC and Macintosh programs and demos – all the more for smooth sailing into having your own place on the Web!

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Review

Creating Web pages isn't just for nerds anymore--far from it. You can't get far in any hobby without participating in its Web community; even the smallest businesses need good-looking, functional Web sites. Those facts mean you must be able to do your own site-building work, and Creating Web Pages for Dummies exists to share the skills you need to learn. This book goes a long way toward explaining Web publishing to newcomers to the field. It is not, however, much of an introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or any other site development language, and you'll soon find yourself wishing for more information on the low-level code that makes your pages look and act the way they do.

Instead of focusing on HTML (see Elizabeth Castro's excellent HTML 4 for the World Wide Web for that), this book emphasizes Web services (such as America Online and GeoCities) that will help you publish your pages, as well as page-design software (such as Microsoft FrontPage Express and Netscape Composer). Coverage is generally too basic--the logic is that if you're thinking about publishing your own Web pages you don't need step-by-step instructions on how to enter body text into FrontPage Express. General advice is good, however, and prospective page creators can learn a thing or two about good page design from the authors' advice. --David Wall

Topics covered: The essentials of building a series of Web pages and getting them up for public consumption. Publishing services, page-design software, and the bare essentials of HTML are covered, as are the special considerations of publishing for WebTV and dealing with diverse browser types.

From the Back Cover

The essential tools and tips you need to produce Web Pages with pizzazz

CD-ROM packed with tools for building and editing Web pages

A Reference for the Rest of Us!®

Your road map to creating your home page--in a day!

Updated with tips on using the latest design tools and getting free Web space

This friendly guide will help you build awesome pages without needing lessons on HTML or previous page building experience. And once you've created your page, you'll find tips on how to get your page online at free page hosting sites like Yahoo! GeoCities or AOL, and how to use professional tools like Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe PageMill.

Discover how to:

Add graphics, sound, and video

Build pages with WebTV tools

Use a little HTML

Link your site to other sites

Get feedback on your site

all this on the bonus CD-ROM

Trial versions of Macromedia Dreamweaver, LiveImage, Ulead GIF Animator, and HotDog Professional

Evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro 6.0 and HomeSite for Windows

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764507338
• ISBN 13: 9780764507335
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 384