Introduction to Web Page Design
Day1

Continuing Education University of Waterloo
1998 Web Design Courses
Instructor: Kern Pageau

The objective of day one is to have the participants become familiar with a WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get) web editor and it's tools, modify a web page template, save the modified file to a directory on their course diskette and have the web page mounted on the internet. The course begins with a brief look into the history and development of  HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language) and quickly moves on to the identification of key web page components . Next through a series of discussions and hands on exercises participants will be guided through the process of modifying the web page template.  After completion--web pages will be mounted to the course web site and  participants will be given the internet address (URL) from which they will be able to view their page on the World Wide Web.

Topics:

• The Internet Network of all Networks

• Tim Berners-Lee -- Who is he?

• HTML -- How does it work?

• Creating HTM or HTML Files

• The WYSIWYG Web Page Editor

• The Three Basic Elements of a Web page