~York Adult Ed Class~

Resources

Basic HTML

My new page.

W3 Schools
One of the best collections of free Web-building tutorials and try-it-yourself examples.
http://www.w3schools.com/

HTML.net
Another excellent site that gives step-by-step instruction for learning HTML and CSS.
http://www.html.net/

HTML - An Interactive Tutorial
The basics of HyperText Markup Language
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

My Web Design Blog
A tool with which I am experimenting for this class. Check the site once in a while to see if I have added new information and/or useful links for the class.
http://yorkwebdesign.blogspot.com/

Some Basic Computing Skills
Instruction and practice on how to Copy and Paste and how to quickly switch between windows.
Basic Skills

Sizing Fonts
Some of the choices available for modifying the size of fonts.
Points and Pixels

Why not use MS Word to create a Web page?
Compare two similar HTML files created with and without MS Word.
Web page #1 created by MS Word.
Web page #2 created in plain HTML.

Colors and images

Colors and their Hexcode numbers
Go to "The Original Color Chart" to chose colors by name or code
http://cedesign.net/colors.htm

Adding images
from Yahoo Geocities HTML Help
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/ghtml/ghtml-15.html

Basic Image Tutorial
How to put images on your site.
http://www.oocities.org/wayne31r/webdesign/images.htm

Optimizing images
The file size of many images can be shrunk without noticeable loss of quality. At the following site, you can optimize individual images for free: GIFBot
Try going to that site and then following the directions to optimizing the following image: rhody-s.jpg

Clipart
If you are looking for clipart or background images, this is a good place to start.
http://webclipart.about.com/

IrfanView freeware image viewer and converter
Free program that also allows you to cut and crop images and perform some special effects (blur, sharpen etc.)
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967