Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Vander Veer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076450357X ISBN 13: 9780764503573

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

This manual contains information on inserting graphics, photographs, movie clips, and using sound and music to make Web pages more enticing to the browser. It shows readers how to create links to and from other sites to increase visitor traffic and get content noticed. It covers page formatting and frames and includes design ideas for use on readers' Web sites. The tools for doing the work are demonstrated, with instructions. Emphasis is placed on creating new pages with attention to maintaining previously existing Web content. The accompanying CD-ROM contains versions of popular software products: PageMill from Adobe; Web Wizard for creating pages; InContext Spider; BBEDit Lite; and useful file conversion tools.

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Review

Creating Web pages isn't just for nerds anymore--far from it. You can't get far in any hobby without participating in its Web community, and even the smallest businesses need good-looking, functional Web sites. Those facts mean that you need to be able to do your own site-building work, and Creating Web Pages for Dummies exists to share the skills you need to learn. This book goes a long way toward explaining Web publishing to newcomers to the field. It is not, however, much of an introduction to hypertext markup language (HTML) or any other site development language, and you'll soon find yourself wishing for more information on the low-level code that makes your pages look and act the way they do.

Instead of focusing on HTML (look at Elizabeth Castro's excellent HTML 4 Visual QuickStart Guide for that), this book emphasises Web services (such as America Online and GeoCities) that will help you publish your pages, as well as page-design software (like Microsoft FrontPage Express and Netscape Composer). Coverage is generally too basic, on the logic that if you're thinking about publishing your own Web pages, you don't need step-by-step instructions on how to enter body text into FrontPage Express. General advice is good, though, and prospective page authors can learn a thing or two about good page design from the author's advice. --David Wall, Amazon.com

Topics covered: The essentials of building a series of Web pages and getting them up for public consumption. Publishing services, page-design software, and the bare essentials of HTML are covered, as are the special considerations of publishing for Web TV and dealing with diverse browser types.

Review

“...bulging compendium of valuable site spinning knowledge...” (PC Home, November 2004)

“...a valuable resource addressing all site–crafting competencies...” (Web Pages Made Easy, August 2004)

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076450357X
• ISBN 13: 9780764503573
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384