This web site comprises the on-line handout for the Intermediate Web Authoring Seminar offered by Lehigh University's Information Resources department. This seminar is normally taught once per semester, as three two-hour sessions. You may check the latest seminar schedule and register for this or any other LUIR seminar, at http://www.lehigh.edu/ir/irhelp/seminars.html. Prior to taking this seminar, you should have taken LUIR's Introductory Web Authoring seminar and gained at least minimal experience in publishing web pages using a simple web authoring tool, such as Netscape Composer.
The purpose of this seminar is to provide a detailed understanding of how HTML functions in the creation of web pages. No more than a brief prior acquaintance with HTML is assumed. However, this seminar rapidly progresses beyond simple web page features like paragraphs, headings, lists, images, and hypertext links, which you should be somewhat familiar with from the prior seminar. The focus in this seminar is on more complex web page features, such as imagemaps, tables, forms, and frames. All of these can be constructed using only HTML. Still more complex features, such as Javascript rollovers and Java applets, which require the web author to use much more than just HTML, are left for the Advanced Web Authoring seminar.
Because this seminar emphasizes direct use of HTML, it does not discuss the use of web authoring tools to assist in web page creation. This should not be taken to imply that the use of such tools should be avoided, but simply that the details of how to use them is irrelevant to what we are trying to accomplish in this seminar. Other seminars have been (or are being) developed to cover the specifics of tools such as Dreamweaver.