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This site gives a brief introduction to the World Wide Web and defines
basic terms such as hypertext, browsers, home page, HTML, HTTP, and URL.
For a slightly longer introduction, see
Introduction to Web Technology. And for a detailed look at the web and its uses in education, see
Learning on the Web
This site provides a brief overview of using Netscape. It shows graphics of
some of the more important Netscape buttons and tools and gives a short
description of how they are used. It mentions, for example, back, forward, home,
open, images, handbook, net search, bookmarks, print, etc.
For a more detailed look at the onscreen fundamentals of Netscape, see the
Netscape Handbook
Learning HTML and Creating Home Pages
The St. Olaf Academic Computing Center has written a good step-by-step
introduction to setting up your UNIX account, learning basic HTML,
troubleshooting, and getting ideas for your home page. Use this guide to
create a basic home page for yourself, your course, your department, your
organization, etc.
Web Documents for the Beginner
Learning from Others
One of the best ways to improve your home page and your skills in HTML is
to take some time looking at other home pages on the web and viewing their
respective source codes.
To view the source code for a home page, go to the
View menu and drag down to Document Source. When you do that,
the source code for the home page will open in another window.
You can edit this code for your own use and then save it by going to the
File menu and choosing Save As.
Then, if you want to open it in Netscape to see how
it looks, click back into the Netscape window, go to the File menu,
choose Open File, and open the code file you have just saved.
Last but not least, you will want to paste this code into a WWW document
in your UNIX account. Reopen the source code file, highlight the code you want
to copy and choose Copy from the Edit menu. Then, open the
appropriate WWW document in your UNIX account and paste by typing Apple-V
St. Olaf Academic Departments
Learning Advanced HTML and Improving Home Pages
Color can be added to the background, the regular text, the unvisited links,
the currently active link, and the visted links. In HTML code, colors are
represented by a six digit code, such as "#FFFFFF" for white, #OOOOOO for
black, and "#OOFFOO" for blue.
To change the colors in your home page, do the steps listed below.
(Enclose the code below in angle brackets as you do for all HTML tags.)
Adding Sound, Video, and Interactivity
Real Audio brings live and on-demand audio to your desktop over Internet
connections of 14.4 Kbps and faster. All you have to do is click on a
RealAudio link from the Web browser and audio begins playing instantly,
without download delays. You can download the
RealAudio Player 2.0 so you can listen to RealAudio links, and you can also
download the
RealAudio Encoder 2.0 so you can produce your own RealAudio links. Both
products are free.
The VDOLive brings live and on-demand video to your desktop without download
delays. The VDOLive Video Player works with any web browser as a helper
application and as a plug-in with Netscape Navigator 2.0 on Windows '95 and
Windows 3.1. You can download the
VDOLive Video Player and
VDOLive Personal Server (for Windows 95, Windows NT, and many UNIX
platforms).
The Shockwave Plug-Ins provide full multimedia capabilities -- access to
embedded Director movies, Authorware courseware, and FreeHand images -- right
in the browser.
The Shockwave Plug-Ins are available for Netscape 2.0 and
can be downloaded at no cost.
Using Advanced HTML References and Style Guides
This reference is appropriate for people who know HTML coding, but can't
always remember all of the codes. It has a long list of all the HTML codes in
table format.
This page has a long list of links to HTML resources on the web.
The Web Doctor can check your web pages for correct spelling, valid links,
and appropriate HTML coding.
Web Style
Manual - Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
Current Internet Trends
The NetGuide Magazine
Learning about the World Wide Web and Netscape
Basic HTML
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
HTML Crash Course for
Educators
Blueprints for Learning HTML
St. Olaf Faculty, Staff, and Students
Example Home Pages from the Web Training Session
Courses from the
World Lecture Hall
Netscape Web Page Templates(These templates were created for use with
Netscape Navigator Gold, but you can still use them as examples by looking at
the source code.)
body bgcolor="#XXXXXX" text="#XXXXXX" link="#XXXXXX" alink="#XXXXXX" vlink="#XXXXXX"
Guide to Web Style
What Makes a Good Home Page
Making a
WWW Flop
Top Ten
Mistakes in Web Design
The 50 Best Web
Sites - NetGuide Magazine
EdWeb - Exploring Technology and School
Reform