Audience

All users of the Internet and anyone wishing to understand the basics of HTML and how web browsers work. This includes personnel from technical IT as well as non-technical departments such as marketing and sales, technical authors and purchasing.

Prerequisites

A basic familiarity with the Internet is assumed. If delivered on-site, the course requires an up-to-date Web Browser and suitable HTML editor.

Duration

2 days. Hands on.

This course is available on site only. Please call for details.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide delegates with the skills necessary to create, develop, and implement basic HTML based websites on the Internet.

Course Content

The World Wide Web
Browsers - general overview.
Web servers - how they work.
Uniform resource locators.
Hypertext Mark-up Language.
SGML.
Review of a selection of browsers.
Where to gather further information.

Create Simple Web Documents
HTML Documents.
Browsers.
Structure tags.
The title.
Headings.
Paragraphs.
Comments.
Basic Formatting.
Logical vs. Physical styles.
Preformatted text.

Hypertext Links
Anchors.
Local links.
Links to the web.
Organising links.

Text Formatting
Unordered Lists.
Ordered Lists.
Definition lists.
Other lists.
Using Lists.
Text formatting.
Special characters.

Multimedia Presentations
Inline Images.
External Images.
Image file formats.
Sound.
Video.
Text only browsing.
Being considerate!

Interacting With the Web
Servers and Browsers.
Scripts.
Simple interaction.
Document based queries.
Loading a Web resource.
Null response scripts.
Forms.
Form based queries.
GET and POST.
The Query string.
The submit button.
Form input controls.
Image Maps.
Potential users.

Going On-Line
Web servers.
Installing the presentation.
Testing.
Advertising the presentation.
Security.
Threats.
Security policy.
Firewalls.
Financial Transactions.

Publishing Tools
Types of Authoring Tools.
Review of selected tools.
Advantages and disadvantages.