The Pedi Pilot Web Page Creation Guide

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last updated: Sept 29, 1999

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With the new WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web creation programs, making your own web page is incredibly simple. If you want to create a web page to market your business, educate people, or simply to show pictures of your children or show off your favorite recipe, then consider using one of the programs below to get started.

And if you already have an Internet connection, it is very likely that your ISP provides you with free web space. So get your page on the web now!

I have included some links to help you get more information, see if your domain name is registered and to add your site to some of the major search engines. I have links to go directly to the url submission pages of the top search engines to save you time. I personally used Adobe GoLive, Effective Web Design, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web and the Web Style Guide to build my site. Please e-mail me if you have any questions or tips for improving this page.

Top Pick

HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
by Elizabeth Castro

The acclaimed bestselling visual guide to learning HTML has been updated to cover all the new HTML tags for HTML 4. Perfect for beginners, this book presumes no prior knowledge of HTML or even the Internet. It uses clear, concise instructions for creating each element of the Web page, from titles and headers to creating links and adding tables, frames, forms, and multimedia. Full-color foldout chart.

Top ten things I've learned in creating my web page:

Use one of the design tools below, so that you don't have to learn HTML. Of course, as your web page gets more sophisticated and complex you may want to learn more about HTML.
Use tables to arrange and line up things on your page. You can place almost anything in a table, including graphics, text and even other tables. Be sure to turn off the tables borders though.
Keep large graphics to a minimum. Many users with slow connections won't wait around for your large graphics to load. Also, consider providing a text only page. And be sure to provide Alternative text for your images, in case the viewer has display images off in their browser.
Preview and test your page using different browsers and operating systems. You may be surprised how things look perfect on your configuration, but look terrible if you use a different browser.
Learn about graphic design so that your site is visibly pleasing to view.
Use navigation links so people can move around your site and get back to your home page if they are looking at a nested page.
Be consistent in your page design and layout.
Keep your page updated, including periodically checking for dead links.
Provide a way for users to give you feedback.
Look at other pages and when you see something you like, just look at the page source to see how they did it.

One thing I haven't figured out how to do is make a reverse Ordered List. Is that possible?

**Top ten things I've learned in creating my web page:**
Use one of the design tools below, so that you don't have to learn HTML. Of course, as your web page gets more sophisticated and complex you may want to learn more about HTML. Use tables to arrange and line up things on your page. You can place almost anything in a table, including graphics, text and even other tables. Be sure to turn off the tables borders though. Keep large graphics to a minimum. Many users with slow connections won't wait around for your large graphics to load. Also, consider providing a text only page. And be sure to provide Alternative text for your images, in case the viewer has display images off in their browser. Preview and test your page using different browsers and operating systems. You may be surprised how things look perfect on your configuration, but look terrible if you use a different browser. Learn about graphic design so that your site is visibly pleasing to view. Use navigation links so people can move around your site and get back to your home page if they are looking at a nested page. Be consistent in your page design and layout. Keep your page updated, including periodically checking for dead links. Provide a way for users to give you feedback. Look at other pages and when you see something you like, just look at the page source to see how they did it.

One thing I haven't figured out how to do is make a reverse Ordered List. Is that possible?

GoLive Adobe Golive 4.0 (for Mac OS)
Adobe GoLive 4.0's visual design tools let you lay out pages with pixel-level control, while the flexible source-code editor helps you write, edit, and check your HTML. Add in easy-to-use Dynamic HTML, cascading style sheets, Quick Time editing, ready-to-use Java Script actions, and advanced site-management capabilities, and it's no wonder that GoLive makes the Web workflow easier than ever.

Adobe Golive 4.0 (for Windows)

frontpage Microsoft FrontPage 1.0 (for Mac OS)
With FrontPage 1.0 for Macintosh, Microsoft brings you a complete set of advanced Web publishing tools. You will get the newest Internet technologies, the most popular HTML tags, and integration with Microsoft Office.

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (for Windows)
The Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool gives you everything you need to create and manage exactly the site you want, whether you're creating a personal Web page or a corporate Internet or Intranet site. And because it works like Microsoft Office, FrontPage 2000 is easy to learn and use.

visualpage Visual Page 1.0 (for Mac OS)
Symantec Visual Page is a fast and familiar way for Macintosh users to post business information on the Web, without having to write HTML code.

Visual Page 2.0 (for Windows)
Visual Page has drag and drop support for editing and previewing the newest Web page technologies, such as cascading style sheets, layers, frames, tables, and Java Applets. Its EZDeploy feature improves the speed in which Web sites are deployed. And with Web site management features such as Project Manager, AutoImport, Link Checking, and Link Updating, Web page updates and link modifications are quickly and accurately implemented across the entire Web site.

homepage HomePage 3.0 (for Mac OS)
HomePage 3.0 software enables you to design, edit and publish your own custom web pages.

imagestyler Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 (for Mac OS)
ImageStyler's flexible tool set puts creativity and cool Web features in the hands of the non-design professional. Explore graphical styles and apply dazzling effects to text, shapes, and images. Produce JavaScript rollover effects, image maps, and optimized graphics in a few quick steps. Then batch-create Web graphics to transform ordinary Web layouts into extraordinary Web pages instantly.

Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 (for Windows)

illustrator Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (for Mac OS)
The industry-standard illustration software. Offering an unparalleled combination of creative freedom and productivity, Adobe Illustrator 8.0 is preferred by designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, and business professionals around the world. Its timesaving features and superior integration with Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, and PageMaker, as well as drag-and-drop convenience with Microsoft Office and other graphics applications, help you create eye-catching artwork for print, presentations, and the Web in an exceptionally smooth workflow.

Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (for Windows)

photoshop Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (for Mac OS)
The world-standard image-editing solution for print and the Web, Adobe Photoshop 5.5 offers new creative tools and Web features - and gives you the power of Adobe ImageReady 2.0 for advanced processing of Web graphics.

Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (for Windows)

web collection Adobe Web Collection (for Mac OS)
The cutting-edge collection for designing and managing premier Web sites. The collection includes three award-winning Adobe applications: Adobe GoLive 4.0, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, and Adobe Illustrator 8.0. And that's not all - for a limited time, you also get Adobe ImageStyler!

Adobe Web Collection (for Windows)

Adobe Golive 4 for Macintosh and Windows : Visual Quickstart Guide
by Shelly Brisbin

Adobe GoLive is an award winning Web-authoring tool, aimed at professional Web site designers and developers, which integrates seamlessly with the latest version of Photoshop. GoLive 4 continues to offer superb HTML control, powerful site management features, and support for CSS, DHTML, as well as ready-made JavaScript actions. GoLive 4 includes an improved QuickTime movie editor, which permits Web developers to edit video directly within the GoLive window.

Microsoft Frontpage 2000 Bible
by David Elderbrock, David Karlins

With its beyond-the-basics content, the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible will help Web creators at any level maximize FrontPage 2000 to its fullest potential. FrontPage 2000 can be used by novice Web developers to create their first Web site and by experienced Web developers to make their jobs easier. The authors, David Elderbrock and David Karlins, cover basic use of the program and show users how to work with graphics, tables, and frames. As you pore through the book, you'll work on cascading style sheets, forms, discussion webs, scripting languages, ActiveX controls, Java programming, database connectivity, and FrontPage server extensions.

Illustrator 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas

Takes a visual approach to a popular graphic design program, offering step-by-step instructions, concise commentary, and b&w and color illustrations. Covers new and improved features of Illustrator 8, and discusses Web issues, with chapters on the Illustrator interface, startup, views, object basics, and tools for selecting, reshaping, transforming, filling, drawing, and painting. Also covers type, gradients, filters, masks, and separations.

Adobe Imagestyler in Depth
by Daniel Gray

Discusses the latest Web graphics software application for the creative business user who needs to create professional-looking Web graphics. Provides an overview of Adobe's brand-new Web graphics creation tool and takes the reader through a discussion of the capabilities of this new product, which enables the reader to get up to speed quickly. Shows in step-by-step format how to create sophisticated Web graphics, such as applying special effects, imagemapping, HTML table slicing, batch imaging operations, and using interactive JavaScript rollovers.

Effective Web Design : Master the Essentials
by Ann Navarro, Tabinda Khan

A skills-based guide to Web design based on current W3 Consortium HTML 4 standards, "browser-safe" graphics techniques, and advanced multi-media features in site designs, this text will appeal to all levels of Web users who are looking for design techniques based on the newest standard of HTML (version 4). The CD-ROM is loaded with the most valuable Web design tools.

Web Style Guide : Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton

This guide focuses on interface and graphic design principles underlying Web site design, and gives advice on issues ranging from planning and organizing goals, to design strategies for a site, to elements of individual page design. Addresses practical concerns of bending and adapting HTML to the purposes of graphic page design, and discusses issues and constraints of designing complex, multilayered sites. Includes a wealth of technical information on graphics and multimedia, illustrated with b&w photos and examples.

Getting the word out! Go directly to the url submission page of these search engines! Be sure to add meta tags to your page so people can easily find your page in the search engines:

Yahoo AltaVista HotBot NorthernLight

InfoSeek Excite Lycos Web Crawler

Ask Jeeves Direct Hit Fast Search Google

MSN Search Open Directory Snap.com SubmitIt

Is my web page name taken?

ReserveMe.com

Network Solutions (you can register your domain name here too).

Help on creating your page:

Web Authoring FAQ

Create Your Own Home Page

Bare Bones Guide to HTML

How to use Meta Tags

Search Engine Watch

Media Builder

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	Adobe Golive 4.0 (for Mac OS) Adobe GoLive 4.0's visual design tools let you lay out pages with pixel-level control, while the flexible source-code editor helps you write, edit, and check your HTML. Add in easy-to-use Dynamic HTML, cascading style sheets, Quick Time editing, ready-to-use Java Script actions, and advanced site-management capabilities, and it's no wonder that GoLive makes the Web workflow easier than ever.
	Adobe Golive 4.0 (for Windows)
	Microsoft FrontPage 1.0 (for Mac OS) With FrontPage 1.0 for Macintosh, Microsoft brings you a complete set of advanced Web publishing tools. You will get the newest Internet technologies, the most popular HTML tags, and integration with Microsoft Office.
	Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (for Windows) The Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool gives you everything you need to create and manage exactly the site you want, whether you're creating a personal Web page or a corporate Internet or Intranet site. And because it works like Microsoft Office, FrontPage 2000 is easy to learn and use.
	Visual Page 1.0 (for Mac OS) Symantec Visual Page is a fast and familiar way for Macintosh users to post business information on the Web, without having to write HTML code.
	Visual Page 2.0 (for Windows) Visual Page has drag and drop support for editing and previewing the newest Web page technologies, such as cascading style sheets, layers, frames, tables, and Java Applets. Its EZDeploy feature improves the speed in which Web sites are deployed. And with Web site management features such as Project Manager, AutoImport, Link Checking, and Link Updating, Web page updates and link modifications are quickly and accurately implemented across the entire Web site.
	HomePage 3.0 (for Mac OS) HomePage 3.0 software enables you to design, edit and publish your own custom web pages.
	Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 (for Mac OS) ImageStyler's flexible tool set puts creativity and cool Web features in the hands of the non-design professional. Explore graphical styles and apply dazzling effects to text, shapes, and images. Produce JavaScript rollover effects, image maps, and optimized graphics in a few quick steps. Then batch-create Web graphics to transform ordinary Web layouts into extraordinary Web pages instantly.
	Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 (for Windows)
	Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (for Mac OS) The industry-standard illustration software. Offering an unparalleled combination of creative freedom and productivity, Adobe Illustrator 8.0 is preferred by designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, and business professionals around the world. Its timesaving features and superior integration with Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, and PageMaker, as well as drag-and-drop convenience with Microsoft Office and other graphics applications, help you create eye-catching artwork for print, presentations, and the Web in an exceptionally smooth workflow.
	Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (for Windows)
	Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (for Mac OS) The world-standard image-editing solution for print and the Web, Adobe Photoshop 5.5 offers new creative tools and Web features - and gives you the power of Adobe ImageReady 2.0 for advanced processing of Web graphics.
	Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (for Windows)
	Adobe Web Collection (for Mac OS) The cutting-edge collection for designing and managing premier Web sites. The collection includes three award-winning Adobe applications: Adobe GoLive 4.0, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, and Adobe Illustrator 8.0. And that's not all - for a limited time, you also get Adobe ImageStyler!
	Adobe Web Collection (for Windows)
	Adobe Golive 4 for Macintosh and Windows : Visual Quickstart Guide by Shelly Brisbin Adobe GoLive is an award winning Web-authoring tool, aimed at professional Web site designers and developers, which integrates seamlessly with the latest version of Photoshop. GoLive 4 continues to offer superb HTML control, powerful site management features, and support for CSS, DHTML, as well as ready-made JavaScript actions. GoLive 4 includes an improved QuickTime movie editor, which permits Web developers to edit video directly within the GoLive window.
	Microsoft Frontpage 2000 Bible by David Elderbrock, David Karlins With its beyond-the-basics content, the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible will help Web creators at any level maximize FrontPage 2000 to its fullest potential. FrontPage 2000 can be used by novice Web developers to create their first Web site and by experienced Web developers to make their jobs easier. The authors, David Elderbrock and David Karlins, cover basic use of the program and show users how to work with graphics, tables, and frames. As you pore through the book, you'll work on cascading style sheets, forms, discussion webs, scripting languages, ActiveX controls, Java programming, database connectivity, and FrontPage server extensions.
	Illustrator 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas Takes a visual approach to a popular graphic design program, offering step-by-step instructions, concise commentary, and b&w and color illustrations. Covers new and improved features of Illustrator 8, and discusses Web issues, with chapters on the Illustrator interface, startup, views, object basics, and tools for selecting, reshaping, transforming, filling, drawing, and painting. Also covers type, gradients, filters, masks, and separations.
	Adobe Imagestyler in Depth by Daniel Gray Discusses the latest Web graphics software application for the creative business user who needs to create professional-looking Web graphics. Provides an overview of Adobe's brand-new Web graphics creation tool and takes the reader through a discussion of the capabilities of this new product, which enables the reader to get up to speed quickly. Shows in step-by-step format how to create sophisticated Web graphics, such as applying special effects, imagemapping, HTML table slicing, batch imaging operations, and using interactive JavaScript rollovers.
	Effective Web Design : Master the Essentials by Ann Navarro, Tabinda Khan A skills-based guide to Web design based on current W3 Consortium HTML 4 standards, "browser-safe" graphics techniques, and advanced multi-media features in site designs, this text will appeal to all levels of Web users who are looking for design techniques based on the newest standard of HTML (version 4). The CD-ROM is loaded with the most valuable Web design tools.
	Web Style Guide : Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton This guide focuses on interface and graphic design principles underlying Web site design, and gives advice on issues ranging from planning and organizing goals, to design strategies for a site, to elements of individual page design. Addresses practical concerns of bending and adapting HTML to the purposes of graphic page design, and discusses issues and constraints of designing complex, multilayered sites. Includes a wealth of technical information on graphics and multimedia, illustrated with b&w photos and examples.