Creating Web Pages For Dummies® - Softcover

Smith, Bud E.; Bebak, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764573276 ISBN 13: 9780764573279

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Synopsis

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Wouldn’t you love to have a Web site? Creating Web Pages For Dummies gets you up and running toward getting your Web site up and running! It describes how to:

• Use simple HTML techniques, add images, and put your page on the Web for all the world to see—free
• Design Web–friendly sites
• Take advantage of free tools like Netscape Composer
• Use Yahoo! GeoCities as a free Web space provider
• Obtain and create Web–friendly graphics and use GIF and JPEG formats
• Add video, audio, animation, and more
• Incorporate META tags and hyperlinks

Creating Web Pages for Dummies was written by Bud E. Smith, author of several For Dummies books, and Arthur Bebak, founder of Netsurfer Communications and publisher and Executive Editor of Netsurfer. From nervously creating that first page to confidently developing a more sophisticated, multi–page, personal or business Web site, the book provides the essential how–to and the bonus CD–ROM provides the essential tools:

• Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mozilla Firefox
• A trial version of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
• Evaluation versions of Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop

Whether you want to create your very own blog, share video, photos, and info with friends and family, or build a dynamic Web site that will help you build your business, Creating Web Pages For Dummies is a practical, unintimidating guide to getting your Web page online in no time.

About this title

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0764573276
• ISBN 13: 9780764573279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384