Welcome to the WWW Authoring Seminar

The goal of this seminar (3 sessions, each 2 hours in length) is to make
the participants comfortable with creating basic world wide
web documents.
The general objectives of the various sessions of this course are:
- Agenda
Objectives
- Introduction to Web Authoring.
- Exercise: setting up your web space and
creating your basic home page.
- The Lehigh setup: where everything is, and how to put all the parts
together.
- Exercise: using Lehigh's file system to access your web file space.
- Document formats (use of formating in text: head, body, hx, p,
br, hx, bold / italics / etc., comments,...
- Exercise: editing an HTML document on the Network Server; using tags to format a document.
- Agenda
Objectives
- Options for creating HTML files
- Creating lists in HTML
- Copying and pasting from another document source
- Exercise: copying a file and creating a list
- HTML Tagging-- hypertext links.
- Exercise: creating basic links.
- Uploading and downloading files to and from your web space.
- Exercise: creating another new page from scratch, on the PC.
- Agenda
Objectives
- Graphics, and using graphics in hypertext
- Workshop: inserting images in a document
- Authoring issues in creating HTML/Web pages.
- Exercise: publishing your page.
- Getting more information...
By the end of this seminar, you should expect:
- To know what sort of things are possible on the Web.
- To have a basic understanding of how the Web works, and know
enough about HTML to create moderately complex documents.
- To know how to perform the mechanics of document creation.
- To have actually created a few simple documents.
- To know where to go to get more information.
On the other hand, you should probably not expect:
- To know all there is to know about HTML, or to be able to
create documents requiring very advanced Web features, such as
scripts, forms, tables, searchable text, or image maps.
(At least not right away.)
- To learn the details about how to create your own images, or
record your own sounds and movies, or about how to translate
among all the various multimedia file formats.
JAH, 22 Sept 1996.