Basic Page Composer
Being a list of things we will learn in this class about how to create
a basic web page without even knowing how to spell html

As imparted by Jared Seay
URL for this page: http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/web/BasicPC.html
Last Update: 9/15/03

Text

  • Typing in from scratch
  • Importing from another source (cutting and pasting)
  • Fonts
  • Changing Color
  • Spacing
Creating the Page
  • Naming the file (page)
  • Formating the page

  •     Alignment
        Tables
  • Saving the page
  • Backgrounds

  •     Colors
        Images
  • Images

  •     Getting Images
        Inserting Images
  • Links

  •    Internal Links: Target Anchors
       Internal Links: Within the same web site
       External Links:  To the WWW
  • Advanced Tables

Publishing
  • Using the Page Composer FTP function
  • Sending files to the server


    Publishing to the College of Charleston Web Server using Page Composer:
  1. Click the Publish Button on the Tool Bar
  2. Make sure you have a page title and file name entered
  3. Faculty type the following path name: ftp://www.cofc.edu/./www
  4. Students  type the following path name: ftp://stu.cofc.edu/./www
  5. Add any subdirectories to the path name
  6. Enter correct user ID and password
  7. Include any associated files (images)
  8. Click OK

Web Accessability at www.webaim.org
The official start date of compliance for Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act - June 21, 2001 - marked the beginning of a new, more accessible era for the Unites States government. From that date on, Federal agencies are required to take into account the disability access features of products and services that the agencies procure. The accessibilityrequirements extend to Web sites as well as hardware, software, and other electronic information technologies. All universites are already bound by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.   

Links for Help in Creating Web Pages
  
Handouts for Basic Netscape Composer 7.1
Basic Help with Netscape Page Composer

www.cofc.edu/~williamj/composer/index.htm
 

Example Page Created with Composer
Goose Creek Greatness
ONE PAGE SITE
www.cofc.edu/~seay/web/goosecreek.html

MULTIPLE PAGE SITE
www.cofc.edu/~seay/crotts/

Resources
Help with Colors, Backgrounds, and Images
www.cofc.edu/~seay/colors.html
www.pixelfoundry.com/sites.html
Yahoo Background Sites
Background Archives
www.pixelfoundry.com/bgs.html
HTML Goodies
www.htmlgoodies.com
The Best Collection of Webimages
www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages
Absolute Background Archive
www.grsites.com/textures/

Cool Archive
www.coolarchive.com/index.cfm

Multimedia
http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/multimedia.html


Netscape Composer 7.0 Tutorials
Web Page Construction
Using Netscape's Composer 7.0
http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/composer.html
Building Web Pages
in Netscape Communicator Composer 7.0

http://www.ashland.edu/~jliu/Consweb.htm
 
General Tutorials
Basic Netscape Composer 4.7 Tutorial
psrtec.clmer.csulb.edu/Composer_Tutorial/composer.html
Although this tutorial is for Composer 4.7, it covers concepts such as planning and storyboarding that are essential to any web page/site construction.
Web Design Tutorial
Using Netscape Composer
4.7
www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/ci235/tutorial/composer/
Although this tutorial is for Composer 4.7, it covers concepts such as planning and storyboarding that are essential to any web page/site construction.
Accessible Design Tutorials
Self paced, short tutorials on various topics of Web accessibility. Sponsored by WebAim and based on W3C-WAI (not based on Composer).
www.webaim.org/tutorials/
Web Monkey
A short tutorial on Web accessibility written by Matt Margolin
hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial5.html
Universtiy of Illinois at Urbana Library
This Web Accessibility Tutorial is not based on Composer.  It includes many components on the use of  background, color, font size, forms, frames, graphics, image maps, and many more elements
www.library.uiuc.edu/%7Eworkflow/workshop/access/toc.htm
Curriculum on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 
Self paced on-line tutorial sponsored by the W3C-WAI (not based on Composer). 
www.w3.org/WAI/wcag-curric/

Searching the Web
Search Engine Selection, Metasearching, International, Education, Subject Directories, Invisible Web, Specialty,
Images, Blogs, News, All-in-one, Staying Current, People, Searching Tips

http://www.cofc.edu/~seamans/WWWSearching.htm

 Back to Creating a Web Page: http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/web/createpages.html