Category: Web Design

Web Page Authoring

This document is, first and foremost, about helping you design exciting, readable Web pages. Its aim is to not only to help you cultivate new skills, but to show you how to leverage existing ones and mature tools in support of web-based content creation. Hopefully, both the beginning Web page designer and those who already have some experience...

Part 1: The Top-down Theory

Even those who know practically nothing about computers have heard about how the Internet is changing the face of publishing; how virtually anyone can post their own pages on the World Wide Web. This course assumes that you fall into one of several categories of Internet users who are – or want to be -- creators, interested in taking Web-page...

Part 2 - Page Layout and Design

While the process of designing a page layout is a unique creative act and may approached in a myriad of ways, it is safe to say that having a plan in mind before you start is, if nothing else, likely to save you time and wasted effort. Such plans can materialize as rough thumbnail sketches on a restaurant placemat or a paper napkin, or in your...

Part 3 - Assembling a Web Authoring Toolkit

If we look at this document as a continuum, with the idea of building The Perfect Page in part 1 and the (hopefully) whiz-bang result being uploaded at the end of part 8, this section could be said to signify the sort of Perfect Pages that are inherently simple in nature. Thus, the techniques in this section are ideally suited to beginners, but...

Part 4 - More Tools for Building Web Pages

toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  Page creation Adobe PageMill FrontPage Enhancing your Pages Extensions to HTML ADDITIONS BY NETSCAPE Adding Fonts Document Type Definition Setting up a response form in FrontPage: Hot Dog and Hot Dog Pro Free Tools HTMLed Pro Internet Explorer-specific Techniques Problem Solving Bitmapped...

Part 5 - Adding Multimedia Features

toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  Adding Multimedia Features Other media on the Net Streaming Video ShockWave for Director MPEG Questions and Answers about EMBEDed objects Creating video content for the Internet Windows Media Other Video plug-ins Animated JPEG! Adding Audio Noise on the Net Optimizing Audio for the Net...

Part 6 - 3D Graphics

toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  Building Home Spaces with Virtual Home Space Builder Compressing your VRML worlds The Problem: What you need to do: A Detailed Explanation Understanding VRML Live3D Example Animating Live3D Textures Converting DXF to VRML Building Home Spaces with Virtual Home Space Builder Building home...

Part 7 - Other Graphics Formats

toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  Vector Graphics Incorporating Acrobat PDF files into Web sites Additional Information Vector Graphics Vector graphics programs are primarily used to create what is often called "outline art." Examples of outline art are everywhere: think of a typical company logo, or a starburst shape in an...

Part 8 - Programming the Web

Part 8: Programming the Web toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  JavaScript, Java, CGI-bin and ActiveX JavaScript Back Button Java Egor Java is protected Java Resources More Java and JavaScript Resources CGI-bin ActiveX ActiveX Resources: ActiveX compatibility plug-in for Netscape Removing ActiveX Components Uploading your Pages...

Part 9 - A list of common MIME types and Tools worth having for web design

Appendix 1 toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  A list of common MIME types A list of common MIME types Tools worth having A list of common MIME types application/octet-stream - bin application/oda - oda application/pdf - pdf application/postscript - ai eps ps application/rtf - rtf application/mif - mif application/x-csh - csh...