Web Authoring and Development: Introduction

Computing & Information Services
instructor: john.pietlicki@unh.edu

In this hands-on workshop participants will utilize a text editor to create a Web page using HTML--the Hyper Text Markup Language. This course is intended for beginners and only the basics will be covered.

Handouts:

• This outline
• Hands-on instruction packet
• Web Page Suggestions - Tricks & Tips

Goal:

• To provide participants with the basic understanding of how Web pages are created using HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

Disclaimer:

• This course is intended for beginners only.
  Fine Print: If you have any experience at all using HTML to create Web pages you will likely find this class a complete waste of time!

Brief Outline/Class Structure:

3 hour hands-on section

• Introduction covering purpose, scope, methods, and terminology
• Hands-on activities
• Post-activity question & answer

Resources:

Books

• Lemay, Laura. teach yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in a week.
  Fourth Edition. Sams.net Publishing. 1997.

Links

• BUILDER.COM (http://builder.com/)
• Composing Good HTML ( http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/cgh/)
• Web Authoring ( http://www.unh.edu/NIS/Docs/Web/AuthorAuthor.html)
• Yahoos HTML Editors links
  ( http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTML_Editors/)