Introduction to becoming a Webmaster

More to Making a Page

How to begin:
As homework you will need to visit a web site that explains the different tags for web pages. Use a search engine from your computer at home to locate a web site that covers the topic of "beginning html." There are many to choose from so once you find one, stick with it. The set of pages you find will need to include the terms listed below. The web monkey web site was a good site for the concept, but you will need more tags than just the ones from web monkey. I suggest you take a piece of paper and write the tags listed below before you begin your search.

<html> and </html> (If you view the source code for this page you will be able to find the code used to display the special characters on this page.)
<head> and </head>
<title> and </title>
<body> and </body> (Generally speaking, all of the tag information found within "the body tag" is part of only one tag and is not separated into several body tags. See sample below)

included in the body tag are the following:
bgcolor="the color in words, ie red or blue or green" or
bgcolor="#RRGGBB", the RGB color codes

text="the color in words, ie red or blue or green" or
text="#RRGGBB", the RGB color codes

link="the color in words, ie red or blue or green" or
link="#RRGGBB", the RGB color codes

vlink="the color in words, ie red or blue or green" or
vlink="#RRGGBB", the RGB color codes

alink="the color in words, ie red or blue or green" or
alink="#RRGGBB", the RGB color codes

background="_________.___" an image used as a background of the page where the first underline is the file name and the second underline is the file extension (most often jpg or gif).

Sample of a body tag: <body bgcolor="#RRGGBB" text="#RRGGBB" link="#RRGGBB" vlink="#RRGGBB" alink="#RRGGBB" background="__________.___">

<h1> and </h1> (these "h" tags include h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6)
<p> and </p>
<b> and </b>
<i> and </i>
<u> and </u>
<br>
<a href="_________________.____">words or image</a> (Go to the menu bar and click on View, Source to find and see how a link is created. You may have to look hard for the tag beginning with the <href=" ___ , but it is there. In fact, there are several near the bottom of all the code.)

Objective:

Your first assignment was to go to the Web Monkey website and learn about some basic html code. There were several units or chapters in the Webmonkey lessons. You were supposed to turn in your notes into the teacher as evidence that you did the assignment.
Now it is time to prove that you understand what you read and took notes about by making your first official web page. This first web page is a page that describes the topics in your notes. Write at least three paragraphs. In each paragraph tell a little bit about what you now know how to do. When you tell what you know, be sure to include an example of it also.

The first paragraph should be about the first unit or chapter, The Basics.

The second paragraph should be about the second unit or chapter.

The third paragraph will be about the third unit or chapter.

(Note: you may do the fourth unit or chapter, but you do not have to write a paragraph about it.)

Be sure to include the following

Your full name in the Title bar

A background color that is dark

A text color that is light and easy to read with the background color

The Headline statement "Intro to Web design"

A link to the web monkey site which is included in the code of this page by Clicking Here.

It is recommended that you view the source code of this page by:

Going to the menu choices of your browser, clicking on "View" and then

Clicking on "Source" or "Page source."

A screen will appear that displays all of the html code for this page. The code will usually be displayed one line at a time and with some study, you will be able to understand what each tag does to make the words appear on the screen.

Major Problem #1 To Avoid -
- Saving a file properly is very important. Your page will not appear on the screen if you do not save your work properly. When writing a page of code, the saved file must be a text file with the extension of htm or html. Please use only the htm for your work in this class to avoid problems with some servers.
Major Problem #2 To Solve-
- The school district has created some restrictions that make it difficult to use the computers at school, write your code, and then check your web page from your storage area on the school server. Your first job after writing the code for the first page, is to get connected to an ISP (Internet Service Provider).
- It is recommended you use Yahoo for email and Geocities for the ISP. You will have to go to Yahoo.com and sign up for an account. From Yahoo you can also get to Geocities.
  These two accounts are only suggestions. There are others available that also do not cost anything.
- After you have an account with Geocites, you will be able to make your page on the computer at school, save it in your folder, and later upload it to the geocities server. After it is loaded onto the geocites server, then you will be able to view your page(s) to see how they really turned out.

You will be taught an easy way to create pages without having to type all of the code yourself. You must have an understanding of the code before you may use web software.