For the most part, writing web pages is fairly easy, and can be done with any text editor, the simpler the better. It's much easier to write a web page using notepad or simpletext than it is to use MSWord, unless you intend to use the Word Text - to - HTML converter.
If you are going to write web pages by hand, I strongly suggest you look at a couple of the tutorials available on the web, such as:
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
Gordon Hake's W3 Writer -A Basic HTML Tutorial
and once you get up to speed on that, you can check out all this interesting stuff:
Yahoo's page on HTML sources
which also contais HTML to TEXT to HTML converters. Use these at your own risk, and on your own computers. DO NOT install them in 206 without first consulting me.
Gordon Hake's W3 Writer:
HTML Special Characters is a very useful site for looking for the codes
for things such as ¥ « § ° and the like.
Transparent GIF's of Greek/Mathemtatical symbols. Very useful for webpages and posters.
Once you know the basics, it's often fun to surf around the web and check out pages that you like. To find out how someone has done something, most browsers will have an option, usually under the "View" menu, that will allow you to check out the document's Source (or code). Most of what I've learned I learned through the above tutorials and by peeking at other pages.
Advanced Tools:
Perl scripting language. Useful for forms, scripts and all sorts of fun stuff.
Yahoo's links for VRML, or Virtual Reality Modeling Language which is used to create interactive 3D environments for the Web.
Yahoo's site for other languages, such as Java and SQL
Once you have your page created:
Let me, System Administrator know, and I'll tell you where to put your pages, and I'll link them into the departmental site.
Don't ask ME to write your pages! I only do that under very limited circumstances, and not with a deadline of tomorrow.
Last Updated: 8/04/03