Course Programme

Part One - Looking at the Internet

  • What is the Internet - origins and what it has become today
  • Evaluating web-sites - what makes a site 'good'; why are some sites 'sticky' - able to retain visitors and bring them back - while other sites are less likely to have return visitors?
  • Structure of a simple web page - introduction to html

 

Part Two - Planning and Building a first web page

  • Planning is paramount
  • Choosing an editor
  • Netscape Composer Tutorial - worth reading, but we will not use this software

 

Part Three - More about the Internet

  • Search engines, key words and meta tags
  • Getting your web space and uploading your first page - ftp
  • Domain names and hosting
  • Planning your web-site

Part Four - Building the Site

  • Software tools - advantages and disadvantages of different packages
  • Preparing the ground - folders and filenaming
  • Do I really need to know html?
  • Beginning to build

Part Five - Continuing to Build the Site

  • Images - sources and copyright issues
  • Making links
  • Tables and frames
  • Templates
  • Buttons

Part Six - Bells and Whistles

  • Flash and Swish
  • Animated gifs, marquees and blinking text
  • javascript
  • Where next

Links

Glossary

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