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Lesson
4: At a Glance
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What
We Did in Last Lesson
We started our résumé
Web page last week and I am sure all of you are working hard on the
page. Please double check all your hyperlinks and make sure your <A HREF>
does not point to any files on your local drive. For example, nobody
can access your file if you specify your hyperlink as <A
HREF="C:\images\myphoto.jpg"> because your hard drive is not accessible
on the Internet.
We are going to finish the résumé
this week and you need to find a place
to host your Web pages. Usually your ISP will provide you with spaces to host
your Web pages. If not, you can find lots of places on the
Internet which will host them for free. Angelfire, Homestead,
and Geocities are some of the good
ones. Remember to post the URL of your pages on Bulletin Board when you finish.
We also found tons of good,
bad, and ugly Web sites. I hope you can get some ideas on how to
design good Web pages and don't make the same mistakes that others made.
Well, have fun with this week's activities!
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What
You Will Learn in This
Lesson
- Preparing
images for a Web page
- Capturing
images
- Converting
images
- Pasting a
picture onto your Web page résumé
- Tiling a
background onto a Web page
- Creating
transparent images
- Creating
animated images
- Creating a
table
- Entering the
caption into a table
- Entering
data into a table
- Adjusting
the parameters of a table
- Inspecting
your HTML
- Putting
images inside table cells
- Subdividing
table cells
- making cells
that span more than one row or column
- Home page
creation strategies
- Home page
naming conventions
- Using the
home page template
- The ethics
of cloning someone else's home page
- Designing a
custom home page
- Linking your
résumé to your home
page
- Returning to your home
page from your résumé
- Case sensitivity
- Spaces in filenames
- Getting your
Web space
- Your Web
space address
- Publishing
files with Netscape Composer and Microsoft FrontPage
- Correcting
problems in published Web pages
- Using FTP
software to maintain a Web site
- How to edit
Web pages published to your Web site
- Relative vs.
absolute links
- Maintaining
a good directory structure
- Setting the
file permission attributes
- Promoting
your new Web site
- Becoming a
webmaster
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Lesson
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you
will be able to:
- Put ../images on
Web pages:
- Download the
shareware version of Paint Shop Pro for Windows or Graphic Converter
for the Macintosh.
- Capture screens
and import images from any software application or from the Web.
- Convert images
into a file format suitable for display on Web pages.
- Resize images to
fit the layout of a Web page.
- Adjust colors
for optimum display performance on Web pages.
- Understand the
concept of a transparent GIF.
- Know how to
download a utility for creating transparent GIFs.
- Paste an image
onto a Web page.
- Tile an image
onto a Web page.
- Use tables for
advanced Web page layout:
- Explain the role
of tables in designing Web pages.
- Use tables to
organize Web pages into rectangular regions called cells.
- Flow text and
pictures into table cells.
- Recognize the
HTML tags that create tables.
- Make a local Web
and a home page.
- Define the
concept of a local web.
- Create a
personal home page.
- Make a local web
by linking your home page to your Web page résumé.
- Link your résumé
to your home page.
- Test the links
with a Web browser.
- Cope with case
sensitivity in hypertext and hyperpicture links.
- Define what it
means to publish a file on the World Wide Web.
- Transfer files
to your Web site.
- Inspect the
folder of files at your Web site.
- Create folders
and maintain a good directory structure at your Web site.
- Rename or delete
files at your Web site.
- Cope with
case-sensitive file servers.
- Set the file
permission attributes at your Web site.
- Advertise the
existence of your Web site.
- Describe what
it means to be a Webmaster.
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Activities for This
Lesson
- Assignment 15 - Home
Page. Value equals 20 points toward your grade in the
course.
After completing Chapter 21 you should be able to do your home
page.
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You need to test your home page first to make sure it looks good and
contains no spelling errors and no broken links.
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Your home page
should contain hyperlinks, background color, graphics, sound, and/or
animations. One of the links should link to your resume created in Assignment
7.
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Send the URL of your home page to WebCT after you
have your home page saved on your ISP's server.
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Remember to make the URL of your home page a
hyperlink, so your classmates can click on the link and view your homepage on
your ISP's server.
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To get to WebCT Homepage, just click on Homepage
icon on the WebCT main page.
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Also, send
the URL of your homepage to the threaded discussion in WebCT.
- Assignment 16 - Audio On Your Home Page.
Value
equals 4 points toward your grade in the course.
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Complete exercises 1
through 3 at the end of Chapter 24, which has you put audio onto your home
page.
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After you have tested the audio on your Web page to make sure it plays
back properly from the Web, post a message with your URL
on the threaded discussion indicating that your web page now has
audio so your classmates can click and view your homepage and your instructor can assign a grade for your waveform recording.
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Conclusion
At the end of this lesson, you have learned:
Putting
../images on Web pages
Using tables
for advanced Web page layout
Making a local
Web and a home page.
Publishing
files on the World Wide Web.
Assignments:
What
we will do in next lesson: Using Multimedia on the Internet
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