This class is for anyone who
wants to learn how to design or edit web pages. Whether you've never
edited a page before and want to learn HTML from the ground up, or
you're currently using another editor like FrontPage and
want to learn how to "tweak" your HTML, this course is perfect
for you. We will begin this class with a
brief review of some of the Internet-related concepts and
keywords we learned about in Internet 101.
We will then learn some additional concepts related to HTML.
We'll then take a look at how to view the HTML
source behind any web page, and we'll talk about the different
components of HTML. We'll learn about the different tags that make up an
HTML page, like the <BODY> and <HTML> tags.

Next, we'll discuss HTML editors, and which
kind of editor you should use. We'll use Windows Notepad for our editor
in class, so we'll load up Notepad and take a look at it. We'll
type up a real short example web page, and then show you how
hypertext tags work.

We'll look at some of the more important tags you
can use in your pages, such as the TITLE tag which sets your page
title, and is very important for search engine placement.

We'll learn about properly formatting your
page with paragraph breaks, line breaks, horizontal lines, and more.

You will learn how various techniques for
formatting your page, text, and paragraphs... like how to
horizontally align your paragraphs.

We'll talk about Header tags, and why
they're important.

Next, we'll spend some time learning all about
hyperlinks. You'll learn how to create external hyperlinks to
other web sites.

You will create internal links
to pages in your web site.

And, you will make mailto links to send
email to people.

You will learn how to properly manage your web
site files in folders, and how to organize them.

Next, we'll learn all about putting graphics
and images in your web pages. You'll learn how to insert
an image, resize the image, change the alignment of the
image, and how to make text wrap around it. We'll even teach you
how to make the image a hyperlink, and adjust it's border size.

Next, we'll cover all kinds of ways to edit your
text. We'll show you a bunch of text formatting tags, and teach you how
to bold, italicize, underline, strikeout, superscript, subscript, and
more...

You'll learn how to change your text font,
font size, and color.

We'll also show you how to change the
background color of your page.

You will learn how to create bulleted and numbered
lists.

Finally, we'll discuss using FTP to upload
your files up to your web server. We'll also talk about how to edit your
HTML in FrontPage, and the benefits involved.

Again, whether you're trying to learn how to make
web pages from scratch, or just want to learn how to edit HTML, this
course is the perfect start. We'll cover additional HTML tags and
techniques in HTML 102.
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