Beginning HTML: Introduction to Web Publishing

Beginning HTML teaches you the skills, techniques, and strategies that you will need to successfully build and promote your presence on the Web.

• Text Layout and Formatting: You will learn how to lay out and format text for your Web page. Then, within the first hour of class, you will construct your first page!

• Graphics: Spicing up your Web pages with attractive graphics and backgrounds is critical for having a successful site. We will teach you how to choose the proper format for your graphics and how to place these graphics on your page. In addition, you will also learn how to add background patterns.

• Color: Color can be a powerful tool for holding your audience's attention. You will discover how to properly apply colors to the text, links, and background of your page.

• Hyperlinks: No Web page is an island! You will learn how to add links from the first page you create to other pages on your site, to pages on other sites, specific places within a page, and to e-mail.

• Tables: HTML tables are valuable both for displaying spreadsheet-style information and for laying out text in columns. You will learn the best techniques for designing and building these tables.

A more detailed outline for the course is available.