Overview
It’s easy to design, build, and post a Web page with Google Page Creator or CoffeeCup HTML Editor, but a friendly guide still comes in handy. Creating Web Pages For Dummies®, 9th Edition introduces you to Web design software and online page-building tools, and walks you through the process in record time.Like its previous editions, this book gives you the skinny on getting Web pages up and running with the least amount of hassle. But not just ho-hum Web pages! Yours will look fantastic and be easy to build, and you’ll even get a trial version of CoffeeCup HTML Editor and visual design tools on the bonus CD. You’ll learn to:
- Get a simple page designed and online by the end of Chapter 3
- Optimize photos, video, and audio for the Web and get them onto your page
- Register for a Google account and use the versatile Google Page Creator
- Build pages using basic HTML or CoffeeCup HTML Editor
- Identify and apply elements of design, avoid common errors, and create pages that get noticed
- Maintain control by creating and editing pages in HTML with a text editor
- Understand how image file size affects your pages, how to upload photos to Flickr, and how to add sound and video files to your Web pages
- Develop your pages into a site with CoffeeCup HTML Editor and Visual Editor
You’ll even find out more about blogging and Blogger.com. The trial software on the CD is for Windows, but the instructions for building great Web pages work on any system!
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Synopsis
In Creating Web Pages For Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., has produced a Web authoring how-to book for the rest of us. Creating Web Pages For Dummies takes the mystery out of using HTML (HyperText Markup Language), preparing graphics, uploading, and all the other elements of publishing on the Internet's World Wide Web. Here, in plain English, authors Bud Smith and Arthur Bebak provide a brief Internet primer for those new to the brave new online world. More importantly, they present all the practical, ready-to-use information you need in order to get started as a Web author right away. In Creating Web Pages For Dummies, Smith and Bebak also share their own expert advice on designing attractive pages that don't take too long to download and on organizing sites in which users won't get lost.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewGetting ready to create your first web page(s)? Don’t know where to start? Creating Web Pages for Dummies, Seventh Edition demystifies every step of the process -- and we mean every step.
Just follow the directions, as you create your text file in the “language of the Internet,” HTML, spice it up with graphics and links, preview it, get web server space, transfer your files there, even check to make sure everything’s working.
Want a free site? The authors walk you through publishing with Yahoo! GeoCities. Want a blog, your personal web diary? That’s covered, too -- also free, courtesy of Google’s Blogger. Most of the software and trialware you need to get started is on the accompanying CD-ROM, too. Suddenly, publishing web pages isn’t just easy, it’s dirt cheap, too. Bill Camarda, from the December 2004 Read Only