Web Pages the Smart Way: A Painless Guide to Creating and Posting Your Own Web Site - Softcover

Sinclair, Joseph T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814471021 ISBN 13: 9780814471029

Publisher: Amacom Books, 2000

Synopsis

The secret's out--anyone can create and post a Web page quickly, easily, and inexpensively.

Find out how in WEB PAGES THE SMART WAY. This immensely practical, nuts-and- bolts book gives readers everything they need to make and post Web pages--using Netscape Composer and FrontPage Express, the free and easy-to-use Web authoring programs that come with Netscape and Microsoft browsers.

Covering the entire spectrum of tasks necessary to create Web pages, this book demonstrates how to: * Locate the Netscape and Microsoft authoring programs * Find a free graphics editor * Test Web pages during the authoring process and after the pages are complete * Make text look better * Add digital photographs and graphics to Web pages * Link one page to another page or site * Use a form at a portal website to create a Web page * Fine-tune typesetting and layout techniques to add a polished look to the pages * Manipulate and enhance digital photographs * Make text graphics and transparent GIFs * Create a navigation menu * Choose a Web host * Choose and register a domain name * Use animated GIFs and other Web animations * Add Java applets to Web pages * Encode audio and video files into media files, and more.

For readers who want to develop their own site but don't want to go to the trouble and expense of learning HTML, HTML editors, or more complicated Web authoring programs, this book offers a very smart solution.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Sinclair (Vallejo, CA) is an expert in text-based multimedia authoring and a contributing editor and reviewer for the Multimedia Reporter. He is the author or coauthor of numerous computer books, including eBay the Smart Way, Creating Cool Web Databases, and Java Web Magic.

Reviews

Sinclair is a contributing editor to Multi media Reporter and has written books on online auctions, thin client computing, Web typography, and Web page design. This new guide is a straightforward, step-by-step, easy-to-use manual for individuals who want to build personal Web sites without having to learn and utilize HTML. Sinclair relies on Netscape Composer and Microsoft's FrontPage Express, the free programs that come with either the Netscape or Microsoft Web browser, and his advice will not benefit Mac users. Sinclair explains how to locate these free authoring programs as well as a free online graphics editor. He covers how to test Web pages, edit and improve text, add photographs and digital images, build links, create a navigation menu, choose a Web host and domain name, use animation, and encode audio and video files. In appendixes, Sinclair summarizes his advice in seven basic steps, and he offers more advanced instruction for those who do want to know about HTML. A final list suggests 14 applications for which one might put a personal Web site to use. David Rouse
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Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814471021
• ISBN 13: 9780814471029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424