Basic HTML

AUDIENCE: All users of the Internet and anyone wishing to create an Internet presence on the Web. This includes personnel from technical IT as well as non-technical departments such as marketing and sales, technical authors and purchasing.
PREREQUISITES: A basic familiarity with the Internet is assumed. If delivered on-site, the course requires an up-to-date Web Browser and suitable HTML editor.
DURATION: 2 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: This course aims to provide delegates with the skills necessary to create, develop, and implement basic HTML based websites on the Internet.
COURSE CONTENT:
Introduction
Course Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline

The World Wide Web (WWW)
Browsers
Web servers
Uniform resource locators
Hypertext Mark-up Language
SGML
Review of a selection of browsers
Where to gather further information

Create Simple Web Documents
HTML Documents
Browsers
Structure tags
The title
Headings
Paragraphs
Comments
Basic Formatting
Logical vs. Physical styles
Preformatted text

Hypertext Links
Anchors
Local links
Links to the web
Organising links

Text Formatting
Unordered Lists
Ordered Lists
Definition lists
Other lists
Using Lists
Text formatting
Special characters

Multimedia Presentations
Inline Images
External Images
Image file formats
Sound
Video
Text only browsing
Being considerate!

Interacting With the Web
Servers and Browsers
Scripts
Simple interaction
Document based queries
Loading a Web resource
Null response scripts
Forms
Form based queries
GET and POST
The Query string
The submit button
Form input controls
Image Maps
Potential users

Going On-Line
Web servers
Installing the presentation
Testing
Advertising the presentation
Security
Threats
Security policy
Firewalls
Financial Transactions

Publishing Tools
Types of Authoring Tools
Review of selected tools
Advantages and disadvantages

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