My Note for "Web Page Design for Beginners"

This is my "Virtual Notebook" for the class of "Web Page Design for Beginners" by Virtual University. I have some experience of creating web pages by using an HTML editor. I decided to join the class because I want to learn the basics of HTML. Hand code HTML tags and create my own page from the scratch -- Sounds exciting !

Week 1

  • HTML, HEAD, TITLE, BODY: These are indispensable.
  • BR, P, CENTER, H1
  • BGCOLOR (an attribute to the opening BODY tag)
My Web Page 1

Week 2

  • ALIGN="left", ALIGN="right", ALIGN="center": attributes
  • LINK, ALINK, VLINK, BACKGROUND: attributes to the BODY tag
  • B, STRONG, I
  • HR, HR WIDTH=, ALIGN=, SIZE=, NOSHADE, COLOR=
  • U
  • FONT, FONT COLOR=, SIZE=, FACE=
  • UL, LI, OL
  • A HREF=, A NAME=, A HREF="mailto:
  • Safe Fonts
    Mac Fonts: Chicago, Courier, Geneva, Helvetica, Monaco, New York, Palatino, Symbol, Times, Zapf Dingbats.
    Windows Fonts: Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Modern, MS Sans Serif, Symbol, Times New Roman, Wingdings.
  • Colors
    White "#FFFFFF",Black "#000000", Fuchsia "#FF00FF", Yellow "#FFFF00", Gray "#C0C0C0", Light Yellow "#FFFF66", Red "#FF0000", Blue "#0000FF", Green "#00FF00", Light Purple "#CC33FF", Light Blue "#00CCFF"
My Web Page 2

Week 3

  • ISO Character Sets
    < >  
  • BLOCKQUOTE, PRE, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, SUB, SUP, ADDRESS
Mid-Term Quiz

Week 4

  • <IMG SRC="imagename.imagetype" WIDTH="00" HEIGHT="00" BORDER="0" ALT="descriptive text">
  • ALIGN=
  • BR CLEAR=

Week 5

  • TABLE, TR, TD, TH
  • BORDER, CELLSPACING, CELLPADDING, WIDTH, BGCOLOR, COLSPAN, ROWSPAN
  • How to use sound files

Week 6



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