TCS - Building a Web Page

Building a Web Page

by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the December 2003 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

Jim Erwin, from our HelpingTulsa Computer Refurbishing Sig teaches WebPage Construction at Bethesda Adult Life Training Center, and I recently taught longtime TCS member Nick Nail how to build a web page, and we both used the free Mozilla Composer, since it's WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) approach is easiest for novices to use. I thought it might make a good article to describe the various tools we use.

Mozilla is a free web browser with a built in Composer program which can be used to build web pages. You can download Mozilla 1.5 for Windows by clicking here. Versions for Linux and Mac OS X are also available.

Here are several tutorials on using the Mozilla Composer:

Other programs I use when working on web pages include:

I upload my files using WS-FTP-LE. It is also available here
To capture portions of the screen to illustrate the answer I use either Print Key 4.01 or Print Key Pro which costs $19.95
I edit my html files using UltraEdit which costs $35.00, and even if you choose to use Mozilla Composer you may occasionally want to use UltraEdit to tweak the html code
A good reminder of the syntax for HTML is The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
A good tutorial on HTML coding is HTML Goodies
Some good DHTML scripts are available at Dynamic Drive. I helped Nick Nail install HV Menu on his Rotary website for this menu system:
The dropdown box on his links page used to select a particular District Web Page used a JavaScript DropDown Box using code from PageResource.com

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Tulsa Computer Society 12/01/2003

Don Singleton, President

Building a Web Page

by Don Singleton Tulsa Computer Society From the December 2003 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the December 2003 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter