Creating Web Pages For Dummies - Softcover

Smith, Bud E.; Bebak, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764516434 ISBN 13: 9780764516436

Publisher: For Dummies, 2002

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

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

Now revised and updated - The fun and easy way(TM) to put yourself on the Web

Get updated coverage of interactivity, multimedia, design basics, and more!

Create your first page today -no HTML experience required!

Creating a good-looking basic Web page for your family or business can seem like an overwhelming task. Don't worry! Focusing exclusively on the essentials, this friendly reference will help you build your first Web page using simple HTML or the services of AOL or GeoCities, add pizzazz with multimedia and interactivity, and then go live.

All this on the bonus CD-Rom:
* Macromedia HomeSite and Dreamweaver trial versions
* Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop evaluation versions
* More than 20 other Web building tools and utilities
* Plus examples and resource files from the book

System Requirements: PC running Windows 9x/2000/Me/XP, Windows NT 4 or later; Power Macintosh running System 7.6 or later. See the About the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

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Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0764516434
• ISBN 13: 9780764516436
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 384