HTML Web Authoring Course

This course provides delegates with the HTML skills required to create web pages. Text editors are used to create the HTML - this is not a course in web publishing tools. The course is mainly practical with plenty of exercises to provide hands on experience. A web server is available to allow delegates to publish their web page.

It is expected that delegates are familiar with Internet concepts and web browsing.

Topics covered on the 2 day HTML Web Authoring course

Introduction to HTML

• HTML authoring: Writing in HTML vs Web authoring packages
• HTML history: HTML versions 2, 3, 3.2, 4. Web browser version

Creating a simple HTML page

• Creating a blank HTML page (HTML, HEAD, TITLE, BODY)
• HTML tags and attributes, line breaks (BR)
• HTML paragraph styles (P, PRE, H1 - H6, DT, DD, BLOCKQUOTE, etc)
• Bulleted and numbered lists (UL, OL, LI), definition lists (DL,DT,DD)
• Paragraph alignment (left, right and center justification)
• Physical and logical styles
• Line breaks and attributes (HR, WIDTH, SIZE, NOSHADE)

Images

• Inserting GIF and JPEG graphics (IMG SRC), which type to use
• Image attributes (ALT, BORDER, HSPACE, VSPACE etc)
• Altering image sizes using HTML / editors (advantages / disadvantages)
• Flow of text around graphics (TOP, BOTTOM, LEFT, RIGHT etc)

Using hyperlinks

• Links to other pages / web sites / email addresses / files
• Links to targets in a page. Images as hyperlinks

Publishing a web page

• Web server directory root (htdocs), executable root (cgi-bin)
• Pros and cons of relative and absolute links
• Publishing your documents on a web server
• Default HTML document (index.html) and user home pages

Fonts, backgrounds and colours

• Fonts (sizes and typefaces) and colours (RGB)
• Page attributes (text, hyperlink, visited link and active link colours)
• Background images

Tables

• Creating simple tables and table headings.
• Table, row, column and cell attributes.
• Column and row spanning, blank cells

Image maps

• Rectangle, circle and polygon hotspots. Tools to help develop coordinates.
• Server and client side image maps. Placing ".MAP" files on HTTP server.

Forms

• Overview of forms, data submitted and executable programs
• Creating text boxes and text areas (names, values, attributes)
• Radio boxes and tick boxes (group names, values)
• Selection and pull down lists
• Hidden forms (passing hidden data to program)
• Form buttons (submit, reset, plain)
• Form actions (example action to quot;mailto:username@server")
• Brief introduction to CGI (using example CGI scripts)

Frames

• Creating pages with frames (FRAMESET, FRAME), frame attributes (names, row & column sizes, immovable frames, borders, scroll bars)
• Alternative pages for non-frame browsers (NOFRAMES)
• Creating hyperlinks to named frames, top page, opening another window

Java applets and plugins

• What is JAVA? Embedding JAVA applets, example JAVA applets
• What are plugins? Installing plugins. Embedding plugins in a page.

Additional HTML

• The META tag, cache expiry times and client pull.
• Introduction to server side includes (SSI)