HTML Authoring for the Web

Accelerated Technical Training for Web Authors

Format

  • Half-day
  • Emphasis on practical skills.
  • Hands-on.
  • The workbook and materials for this course are on the web at http://www.keller.com/html.

Audience

This course is for you if you use a networked computer, you need to deliver information to others, and are motivated to learn a new language, HTML.

Prerequisites

Check the boxes for the prerequisites you satisfy.
You know how to use a browser, e.g. Netscape.
You have "surfed the Web."
You have a networked machine.
You have access to a server or server administrator (Webmaster).
You can edit a text file (with notepad, vi, etc.)
If you checked four boxes or more, you're well-equipped to get the most out of this class!

Overview

In this course, you learn by doing. In a series of hands-on exercises, you acquire the basics of Web page authoring.

In the first exercise, you build a simple Web page. As the course progresses, you apply more techniques and the simple page grows. You add paragraphs, lists, horizontal rules, font changes, hyperlinks, images, and special characters. Techniques for adapting existing ("legacy") documents are practiced. You also learn to leverage from the source code of documents already on the Web.

In addition to the practical skills listed above, you learn the underlying concepts of the Web: the role of the author and of the Webmaster, strategies for authoring (using specialized HTML tools, converting from native word processor formats, writing raw HTML), and new paradigms for non-linear media.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you'll be equipped to:
  • Create web pages for your project, team, department, personal interests, etc.
  • Deliver information via the World Wide Web (WWW).
  • Organize information for hypertext presentation.
  • Mark up your text with HTML tags.
  • Add lists, paragraphs, font changes and line breaks to your web pages.
  • Create hyperlinks to local and remote web pages.
  • Explain the syntax of URLs.
  • Incorporate images into your pages.
  • Adapt existing documents for Web delivery.
  • View and analyze others' HTML pages.
  • Consider HTML editors and translators such as Netscape Composer and Microsoft Front Page.
  • Be ready to learn advanced HTML features.

Method

  • Emphasis on practical skills and real-life issues
  • Lots of hands-on -- learn by discovery
  • Get started quickly!

Contents

Chapter 1: Housekeeping

Chapter 2: Strategies for Web Authoring

Chapter 3: Your Home Page, Version 1 -- Writing and Maintaining HTML

Chapter 4: Your Home Page, Version 2 -- Paragraphs and Lists

Chapter 5: Your Home Page, Version 3 -- Hyperlinks

Chapter 6: Your Home Page, Version 4 -- Graphics

Chapter 7: Dealing with Legacy Documents

Chapter 8: Putting It All Together

Classroom Setup

Delivery of this course requires a classroom equipped with:
  1. An overhead projector
  2. A PC or workstation for each student
  3. Connection to the internet

Site

The course can be taught in your classroom, anywhere in the world. Travel outside the San Francisco Bay Area requires reimbursement of the instructor's travel expense.

Copyright © 2020

Dan Keller Technical Services
2248 International Blvd., Oakland
California, USA 94606
tel: 415 / 861-4500