Writing HTML (Style) Home Page

Session 1

Objectives

1. Develop a sense of good WWW page design.
2. Create HTML source code that is understandable and easy to change.

Keywords / Concepts

1. HTML style
2. HTML source code

Prerequisites

1. understands basic HTML structure
2. understands basic HTML formatting tags
3. using an HTML editor
4. navigating the WWW with a web browser

Student Preparation

1. Record the location (URL) of a well-designed (in your opinion) web page.
2. Bring in a printed copy of the same web page.

Lesson Plan

• Activity
• Tutorial
• Discussion
• Review

Homework

References

1. Web Developer's Virtual Library: Style

2. An HTML Crash Course for Educators, will take you through all the design basics you need to know to make a home page. (And stay tuned - not too far from now, the Crash Course will have forms to allow you to actually create your practice pages on-line!)

3. Netscape's Assistance Creating Net Sites

4. From the Web Press to the Web is MacUser's guide to what HTML is and what publishing tools you can use to write Web documents.

5. A Do-It-Yourself Web Page from MacUser shows that making a home page on the Web is surprisingly easy in this seven-step tutorial.

6. Otmar's List of HTML Tags.

7. Yahoo's Directory on Page Design and Layout

8. Use Fermilab's Hands-On: Writing HTML tutorial to guide you in making your own home page.

9. Apple-Internet-Authoring Home Page is the home page for the Apple-Internet-Authoring mailing list. It contains pointers to information sources of use to people creating writing HTML, creating Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs for use under WebSTAR or other HTTP servers on the Macintosh, and those people authoring information for use on the Internet using Macintosh computers.
   • HTML Authoring Resources

   • HTML Documentation and Tutorials

   • Commercial HTML and Web Authoring Books

   • Sources for Icons, Graphics and Textures

Evaluation