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Online resources for using Microsoft FrontPage
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Basic questions and answers about web
development...
- How exactly does this HTML thing
work anyway?
W3Schools provides a nice online guide to
HTML, as well as really helpful
example
pages where you can easily practice writing your own HTML tags.
WebMonkey for kids
is another good resource - their
tools
and reference guides are a great place to bookmark when you need a
refresh on
basic tags,
color codes, or the codes for any
special symbols, such as ¶, whose code is "¶".
The
site is heavy on graphics, so it's not so good from a dial-up
connection.
- What if i want to put images on my
pages?
For an academic treatment of this subject, try the "graphics
for the web" section of the
Yale style
manual. The most pertinent info there - on a 28.8 modem
connection, 3.6KB of data will take a minute to download. Use
that as a standard guideline for the maximum total size for all the
graphics on your site.
Other than that, thumbnails are usually about 50x50 pixels, and can be
made with any graphics software, including Paint or Microsoft Photo
Editor. Simply find and use the "resize" tools.
After that
it's just a matter of inserting the small image in your page and
linking it to the larger images, which can be done with HTML or the
software of your choice.
Using background images for pages or tables can be done using HTML or
the HTML editor of your choice, such as FrontPage.
- What about design? How should
my page look?
Layout is important. Using tables is the best way to
align your page's content. Again,
W3Schools and their
easy to try
examples are the best way to practice using tables (scroll down a
little to get to tables).
Keep in mind that your viewers will have different monitors and
resolutions: your content should have a maximum width of about
650 pixels, give or take 50. The
Yale style
manual has a
little bit to say about this also.
Another important aspect of web pages is navigation - each page should
allow a user to easily move to other pages within the site.
Decide on a scheme for navigation early in your design.
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