Comprehensive Web Design Tutorial: Building User-Friendly Websites with FrontPage and HTML
This tutorial, prepared by Wang Shiyu, provides an insightful introduction to creating effective web pages using commercial tools like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Learn how to structure your site for optimal navigation, implement DHTML effects, and understand essential HTML elements. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of small file sizes for faster loading and offers step-by-step guidance on adding images, hyperlinks, tables, and more. Perfect for beginners, it demystifies web design and empowers users to create professional-looking websites effortlessly.
Comprehensive Web Design Tutorial: Building User-Friendly Websites with FrontPage and HTML
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Web Design ITM 2010 Tutorial 1 Prepared by Wang Shiyu
A good web site • Brief theme • Good structure (easy to navigate) • Small size(easy to load)
Commercial tools • Microsoft FrontPages • Simple. WYSIWYG, Easy to learn • Macromedia Dreamweaver • Powerful fully featured extensible WYSIWYG editor with site management and support for 3rd party tags (ASP…)
Microsoft FrontPage • Menu for changing text styles. • Header tags • List tags • Alignment • Menu for creating tables, forms, frames, etc. • Menu for inserting images, hyperlinks with http, mailto, https, etc.
Microsoft FrontPage (Con’t) • Not much support for script languages • Include <MARQUEE> tag which is only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer • Text inside Marquee element scrolls slowly across screen • Have to type in complete script in JavaScript or VBScript
Microsoft FrontPage (Con’t) • Other support features • DHTML effect • Page transitions • Hover Button • Banner Ad Manager
Insert Image Insert Hyperlink Component Insert Table Text Styles Alignment options Insert Indent Create List Microsoft FrontPage (Con’t) • Microsoft FrontPage window • Similar to Microsoft Word
HTML Introduction • What is HTML? HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. Itdescribe the contents and appearance of pages on the World Wide Web. It use pairs of opening and closing tagsto describe each element on a Web page
What is HTML? For example, code <a href=“http://www.cuhk.edu.hk">school</a> describes a link(URL) on the page. The <a href…> tag indicates the beginning of link and </a> indicates the end of the link. If you design pages in FrontPage, you don‘t need to know any HTML or DHTML; because it is a WYSIWYG(所見即所得) design tool that can automatically generate the HTML code.
HTML Introduction <html> <body> <p>Hello World</p> <p>This is the test</p> <p><a href="http://course.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~itm2010">Click me</a></p> </body> </html>
HTML Introduction (Con’t) <html> … </html> <title> … </title> <body> … </body> <a href://”…”> … </a> <img src:”…” width=“1” height=“30%”> <table bgcolor=“#FFFFFFF> … </table>
HTML Introduction (Con’t) Note: You are recommended to put all files which are linked to your web such as image, web, music into the same folder. In another word, they can belong to separate sub-folder, but this folder must belong to the same root. In this way,you can move your work easily
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Begin to design webpage • Create a blank page • Using Frame
Page properties • Background • background picture • background sound • Link properties • hyperlink color • hyperlink rollover
Add image • Picture properties • Picture link
