Creating Web Pages

1. Preliminaries

• Some key terms
• Copyright and publishing issues
• Accessibility issues for web authors

2. Writing Web Pages

• Notes on using Dreamweaver
• Using the templates for the new University site
• HTML tutorial
• Convert documents to Acrobat PDF format
• See also section 5 below for further HTML resources

3. Publishing

• Publishing on the University Web server
  • Dreamweaver
  • WS_FTP
  • Fetch
• Notes on filenaming problems
• The location of Web pages
• What to do if your Web site is moved

4. Advanced topics

• Restricting access to your pages
• Server-side includes (SSI)
• Using CGI scripts to process data
• Page counters
• An image map
• The local search facility
• Make your site more visible
• Notes on JavaScript
• Domain name registration and hosting

5. Other information

• The NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
• The Netskills training material
• The Web safe colour palette including numeric codes for different colours
• Image files for University Arms
• A good book on HTML: Laura Lemay, Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 days, Sams Publishing (December 1998) ISBN: 1-672-31408-8