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Synopsis
Chances are, youâ re already a Web user and use the Internet on a regular basis. Youâ ve probably seen a few impressive Web sites and now youâ re inspired to create a Web page of your own, but youâ re not sure where to start. The answer is: right here!
Creating Web Pages For Dummies guides you through the process of making your own Web pages without hassle or confusion. This straightforward book shows you just how easy it is to launch a site, specialize a page, making your site interactive, and much more! In no time you will become a pro in:
- Web publishing basics
- Geocities, Google page creator, and AOL Web publishing
- Using Flickr, creating blogs, and selling products on eBay
- HTML and other handy tools to â beef upâ your site
- Writing and formatting Web text
- Creating and adding graphics for your site
- Adding links, animation, and multimedia
- Designing a great-looking, complete Web site
Besides getting to know the ins and outs of building a Web page, this guide offers suggestions on Web publishing, ranging from testing out your Web site and advertising your site to legal permission and displaying borrowed content. This resourceful guide also includes Web lingo worth knowing and a quick guide to HTML tags, which points out some lesser known but nevertheless useful tags. Now in its 8th edition, Creating Web Pages For Dummies will help make your Web page stand out in the crowd!
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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
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
Bonus CD Includes
Extended, fully functional trial versions of CoffeeCup Software's HTML Editor, Visual Site Designer, and Website Color Schemer, all covered in the book.
Available for Windows only; see the What's On the CD Appendix for complete system requirements.
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
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- PublisherFor Dummies
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0764582216
- ISBN 13 9780764582219
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number4
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