Simple forms in HTML

Here is a simple tutorial to follow, with links provided for additional resources.

Download the PDF here.

Setting up basic page code in HTML

Here's a pdf file you can download to help you set up your basic HTML code, your DOCTYPE, meta tags, and title of your website.

You can download it here.

Code Snippets

Code snippets are pieces of code you put into the HTML of your web page to make it do something, show something, etc. If you are using Dreamweaver, there are ways to automatically put some of these bit of code into your site. More on that later...

If you follow the links below, you'll find several javascript sites that will allow you to:

Highlight an Image on Mouseover

Open a New Window With a Button

Open a New Window With a Link

Open a Window on Page Load

Add to Favorites Button (IE)

Dreamweaver Templates

Here is another short tutorial on how to create a dreamweaver template.

Download PDF here

Creating frames in Dreamweaver

There are several different ways to create frames in Dreamweaver, but here is a short tutorial so that you will understand the main concept. Also, when you download the tutorial, take note of the links provided at the bottom of the page.


You can download the PDF here.

Cascading Style Sheets - Tutorials

As we are getting ready to launch into our CSS class (following the conclusion of HTML), I thought I'd post this link to w3Schools. They have great tutorials and a WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) that you can practice with.

What is CSS?

• CSS Stands for Cascading Style Sheets
• Styles define how to display HTML elements
• Styles are normally stored in Style Sheets
• Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
• External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files
• Multiple style definitions will cascade into one

HTML tags were originally designed to define the content of a document. The layout of the document was supposed to be taken care of by the browser, without using any formatting tags.

As the two major browsers - Netscape and Internet Explorer - continued to add new HTML tags and attributes to the original HTML specification, it became more and more difficult to create Web sites where the content of HTML documents was clearly separated from the document's presentation layout.

To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - the non profit, standard setting consortium, responsible for standardizing HTML - created STYLES in addition to HTML 4.0.

All major browsers support Cascading Style Sheets.

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Style Sheets Can Save a Lot of Work

Styles sheets define HOW HTML elements are to be displayed, just like the font tag and the color attribute in HTML 3.2.

Styles are normally saved in external .css files. External style sheets enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the pages in your Web, just by editing one single CSS document!

CSS is a breakthrough in Web design because it allows developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. As a Web developer you can define a style for each HTML element and apply it to as many Web pages as you want. To make a global change, simply change the style, and all elements in the Web are updated automatically.

Multiple Styles Will Cascade Into One

Style sheets allow style information to be specified in many ways. Styles can be specified inside a single HTML element, inside the head element of an HTML page, or in an external CSS file.

Even multiple external style sheets can be referenced inside a single HTML document.


Cascading Order
What style will be used when there is more than one style specified for an HTML element?

Generally speaking we can say that all the styles will "cascade" into a new "virtual" style sheet by the following rules, where number four has the highest priority:

Browser default
External style sheet
Internal style sheet (inside the head tag)
Inline style (inside an HTML element)

So, an inline style (inside an HTML element) has the highest priority, which means that it will override a style declared inside the head tag, in an external style sheet, or in a browser (a default value).

Read more here...

Simple Javascript Slideshow

Go to http://www.anewavenue.com/dw_class.html and download each of the large images (5 total, just do the orchids) into your images folder that you created inside of your root folder. Don't change any of their names, just leave them as they are.

Scroll back down that page that you got the images from. There is code that will create a nice looking javascript slideshow with smooth transitions in IE.

You'll need to follow the directions and place code in three places: between the head tags, in the opening body tag, and inside of a table cell that you will create.