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Thread ID: 24851 2002-09-20 06:11:00 HTML csinclair83 (200) Press F1
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81465 2002-09-20 06:11:00 Does anyone know of anything about HTML, as i need to make a website, for my assignment, and its gotta have html, i know all webpages have a html source, but i need to be able to make a website with html and frontpage (graphics version and html automade) and being able to edit html without a problem..like changing specific colours etc...so yes i would need to study my ass off to know more about HTML, but does anyone recommend any books, websites, cds, anything that you beleive would help me with this...I'd really appreciate it :-)
Thanks heaps :-) 		csinclair83 (200)
81466 2002-09-20 06:17:00 Chris, if you can get your hands on the last PC World CD, it was on the September mag. It has NetObjects Fusion 5, a free web page creator.

It is drag and drop, BUT the good thing is it generates the HTML that you can edit or view, to get an understanding of the code. Wont remove the need to study (and there are scores of sites on the web to learn at) but I found it very helpful to "reverse engineer" a page to see how it worked. 		godfather (25)
81467 2002-09-20 06:19:00 HTML: An Interactive Tutorial For Beginners (www.davesite.com) Jen C (20)
81468 2002-09-20 06:24:00 search on google.com or look in the google directory. There are gonna be a million and a half HTML tuts out there...
HTML isn't hard as far as languages go anyway, you shouldn't have too many problems.
I just found this now, looks ok....
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu 		loser (538)
81469 2002-09-20 06:26:00 HTML, do you need to understand the language (it is easy it just involves tags, yes I know it) and if you want, I can give you a hand

Zan 		Phate (1499)
81470 2002-09-20 07:30:00 Hi mate, HTML is very easy to learn I recommend this site (http://www.lissaexplains.com) to get to know the very basics and from there you should be all right to be able to look for you want on google. There are a vast amount of helpful sites out there, do a search on google for html tutorials or something like that. If your stuck I would be glad to help with any problems your having. Sam H (525)
81471 2002-09-20 08:27:00 the most basic html is as complex as labeling a bit of bold text bold in this forum, the main diferance being the use of
bit of bold text
< and > brackets instead of the [ and ] used in this forum .


What this says is
<do this> to this </do this> the final bit with the"/" meaning "you can stop now"

Have a wee look at a simple pages code ("view source" in most browsers)
it will read something like
<html>
<head>
info about color schems etc
</head>
<body>
the text
someother stuff
</body>
</html>

now take this:

<html>
<head>
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
</head>
<body>
your text
</body>
</html>

write it in notepad, and save it as a . htm file
Ta-da! instant crude page, now look at some simple pages, and borrow the code you see there and see if it works for you . 		Chris Wilson (431)
81472 2002-09-20 11:37:00 I'd love heaps of help :-)
its easy to do but its just, where the tab goes etc...
and i've attempted html before, and all was well having the "guide" with me..tells me what tab does what..and colour code..
and when i returned book to library, i totally stuffed up the page lol..and forgotten the book name :-(

If you all have websites etc that would definately help, could you email them on to sinclair@man.quik.co.nz

Many thanks

by the way, will be getting the september copy of pcworld on wednesday :-) 		csinclair83 (200)
81473 2002-09-20 11:44:00 Okay, www.webmonkey.com is a good place to start, goto tutorial of HTML.
Here's an example of a REAL basic page that you could save to a HTML file an look at yourself:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>csinclair83's Demo Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1>Big Text</H1><H6> or Smallest Text</H6>

Break

<HR>

Horizontal rule followed by break

PressF1.co.nz Link (www.pressf1.co.nz)

PicHere.jpgand a pic

</BODY>
</HTML>

This has just demonstrated most of the basic web page tags you'll need.
Use notepad as a good editor and make sure that when saving you select All Files and then finish the filename with a *.html extension!

Hope that's helped....

Chilling_Silence 		Chilling_Silence (9)
81474 2002-09-20 11:47:00 Hi Chris,

What the others were meaning about checking pages was along the lines of checking the source code for Press F1 page (for instance, not really the best site for starting with as it has heaps of code!)

As you have XP you are probably browsing with IE. So go to the View menu and then simply click on Source. That will show you the code used to create the page you are currently looking at.

Hope this helps. Just finished my HTML assignment, so I can relax! 		Gorela (901)
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