Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
It’s easy to design, build, and post a Web page with Google Page Creator or CoffeeCup HTML Editor, but a friendly guide still comes in handy.
Creating Web Pages For Dummies®, 9th Edition introduces you to Web design software and online page-building tools, and walks you through the process in record time.
Like its previous editions, this book gives you the skinny on getting Web pages up and running with the least amount of hassle. But not just ho-hum Web pages! Yours will look fantastic and be easy to build, and you’ll even get a trial version of CoffeeCup HTML Editor and visual design tools on the bonus CD. You’ll learn to:
- Get a simple page designed and online by the end of Chapter 3
- Optimize photos, video, and audio for the Web and get them onto your page
- Register for a Google account and use the versatile Google Page Creator
- Build pages using basic HTML or CoffeeCup HTML Editor
- Identify and apply elements of design, avoid common errors, and create pages that get noticed
- Maintain control by creating and editing pages in HTML with a text editor
- Understand how image file size affects your pages, how to upload photos to Flickr, and how to add sound and video files to your Web pages
- Develop your pages into a site with CoffeeCup HTML Editor and Visual Editor
You’ll even find out more about blogging and Blogger.com. The trial software on the CD is for Windows, but the instructions for building great Web pages work on any system!
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Synopsis
This fully revised edition comes with a new TOC that focuses on the specific ways a reader can build a page. Parts include:
- Part I - Create a Web Page Today: includes an overview of page building along with specific services you can use to get content online immediately. Also covers online Web builders like Google Pages
- Part II - Making Things Web Ready: covers creating things to dress up a page including graphics, animations, dynamic features like a blog, video, audio, and other interesting widgets
- Part III - Building with Good Old Fashioned HTML: chapters cover how to create a page with HTML
- Part IV - What I See is What You Get: chapters cover how to create a page with a WYSIWYG tool like Microsoft Expression Web or Adobe Dreamweaver
- Part V - Part of Tens
About the Author
Bud E. Smith has been writing For Dummies books since 1995 and is the author of all previous editions of Creating Web Pages For Dummies. His other books have covered AutoCAD, Web usability, Web marketing, and Web graphics.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Create a Web Page Today 7
Chapter 1: Web Publishing Basics 9
Chapter 2: Designing Your Online Look 31
Chapter 3: A Fast and Easy Page with Google Page Creator 49
Part II: Get ting the Content Right 61
Chapter 4: Words and Blogs 63
Chapter 5: Using Images and Uploading Photos to Flickr 89
Chapter 6: Playing Sounds on Your Site 121
Chapter 7: Screening Videos on Your Site 133
Part III: Your Site in WYSIWYG 149
Chapter 8: Using a WYSIWYG Editor 151
Chapter 9: Creating a WYSIWYG Page 161
Chapter 10: Graphics and Media, WYSIWYG Style 179
Chapter 11: Laying Out Your Site in WYSIWYG 189
Part IV: Your Site in HTML 199
Chapter 12: Using a Text Editor 201
Chapter 13: Creating a WYSIWYG Page 209
Chapter 14: Graphics and Media in HTML 223
Chapter 15: Laying Out Your Site in HTML235
Part V: The Par t of Tens 245
Chapter 16: Ten Web-Publishing Dos and Don’ts 247
Chapter 17: Ten Places to Host Your Page 255
Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Make Your Page a Site 259
Part VI: Appendixes 263
Appendix A: Web Words Worth Knowing 265
Appendix B: A Quick Guide to HTML Tags 275
Appendix C: About the CD-ROM 297
Index 303