Web Page Design

This series of classes will teach you how to write HTML pages independent of any other tools. We will be covering HTML version 4.0, which is the current standard. We'll cover those portions implemented in common browsers.

These materials were originally written by Jim Hurley, a Web developer and HTML/graphics expert since 1994, who can be reached at jhurley@krell-labs.com. He also designed this class. The materials were modified by Margie Metzler for use by Network Appliance employees.

The class will be interactive and informal, so please ask questions or add any comments you may have. (It is my goal to learn something new myself in every class I teach!).

Each new topic will be followed by a hands-on exercise.

Useful Downloads

You may end up using n HTML editor, such as FrontPage, HomeSite, Dreamweaver, or Go Live. However, I strongly recommend that you learn HTML anyway, because you will definitely need it to debug your pages. You may find that native HTML is a lot better in the long run. WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editors add a lot of extraneous code, much of which is not good HTML. This may or may not run well on your server, which is probably a UNIX server running Apache, and may also not run well with the browsers, computers, and operating systems used by your audience.

Keep in mind the Network Appliance environment consists of UNIX machines as well as PC's, and probably a few Macs as well. Browsers we use are mostly Internet Explorer 5+ or Netscape 4.5+ or Netscape 6, but a few people run text-only systems and some Linux users use an earlier version of Netscape.

In light of these issues, you may want to use a free, easy to use tool called Arachnophilia, which you can download at www.arachnoid.com.

Another free and useful tool is called Copernic, available at www.copernic.com. This is a tool that allows you to run a search and then uses all the major search engines to come up with its results.


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