Creating Web Pages For Dummies® - Softcover

Smith, Bud E.; Bebak, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764507338 ISBN 13: 9780764507335

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

The Web is the most sophisticated, most open, and simplest publishing medium ever created, an endless set of criss–crossing interconnections between an ever–growing number of points, and a community in the truest sense of the word. Your Web page can be your platform to say or show whatever you want to the millions of people with access to the global Internet. You can talk about yourself or your business. You can publish a short story or a collection of jokes. You can show pictures of your dog or of your company’s latest product. Your own imagination is the only limit to what you can put on the Web.

If you′ve used the Web before and you′re now ready to step out into the big wide online world with your own page, Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 6th Edition, is the place where you can nudge your wishes into reality. Without any previous experience (or painful technical instructions), you can get on track to

• Tackling just enough HTML to format with the best of ′em
• Incorporating graphics, sound, and video into your pages
• Providing links to other sites
• Putting to good use Web publishing tools that can relieve your workload
• Designing and delivering pages that people will want to revisit

Informative, educational, and just plain fun, Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 6th Edition, covers Web page topics from beginning through intermediate levels, including how to

• Put together a Web publishing plan
• Use half a dozen different tools
• Publish a Web page via Web–based services and the major online services
• Expand your page to a full Web site
• Add interactive features and invite feedback
• Keep your page current and in good working order

The revised and updated content in this edition also features the latest on building AOL and GeoCities pages, plus insight into adding the multimedia features that′s amaze your visitors. The book includes a CD–ROM that′s loaded with a variety of PC and Macintosh programs and demos – all the more for smooth sailing into having your own place on the Web!

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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: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764507338
• ISBN 13: 9780764507335
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 384