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

From the Author

This book gets you off to a quick start and builds your confidence. It shows you some Web tricks. It leaves out some of the glitz, but it aims to provide you with the basics painlessly. It includes much of the fun, such as color photographs. But in the end, if you want to be a Web developer, you'll have to move on to another book. This is not a thorough bible about Web authoring. It's an introductory book.

Most people don't find making Web pages difficult, and this book convinces you of that by helping you make a Web page in the first chapter. If you don't want to be a Web developer but you would like to make some Web pages, this book will help. If you want to be a Web developer but you don't want to learn too fast, this book sets a modest pace and covers basic Web development techniques. The book requires that you feel comfortable using a PC, a Web browser, and a word processor.

This book doesn't require expensive software. The book features Netscape Composer and Microsoft FrontPage Express, both free Web authoring programs and both powerful yet easy to use. In addition, the book features the popular freeware IrfanView image editor, also powerful and easy to use. Finally, the book illustrates WS_FTP Lite, a freeware program you can use to upload Web pages to a website.

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.

Edition details

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