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33_573276 bindex.qxd 9/9/04 2:17 PM Page 345 Index graphical user interface, 47 • Numbers & Symbols • Hometown, 54–55, 197 | (horizontal bar character), 258 Macintosh support, 53 .. (pair of dots), 83 Member pages, 237, 239 # (pound sign), 86 My First Home Page Template, 58–61 “ (quotation marks), 84 Netscape and, 97 / (slash), 70, 83 1-2-3 Publish, 55–57 1-2-3 Publish, 54, 55–57 online service file transfer, 217 2Cool Animations site, 225 planning site, 54–55 8 x 3 filename, 69 publishing tools, 53, 54 8-bit color display, 165 upgrading, 53 Web browser and, 95 Web publishing services of, 45 • A • Web publishing support, 51–52 anchor absolute addressing, 83, 84 creating, 151 accents, 172 examples of, 84 access to site, 18 for graphical link, 173–175 account information, changing parts of, 82 for Yahoo!, 38 within Web page, 86 accuracy of content, 130 anchor tag, 67, 74, 146 Acrobat Reader (Adobe), 254 Andreesen, Marc (Mosaic creator), 97 ActiveX technology, 241, 332 AngelFire site, 197 ad banner, adding to page, 60 animated GIF Adobe Acrobat, 254 adding to Web page, 226–227 Advanced Property Editor dialog box creating, 227–229 (Composer), 154–155 description of, 176, 178, 223–224 advertising, 224 finding, 224–226 ALIGN attribute of image tag, 182, 187 Animation Factory site, 225, 226 ALT tags, 171, 289 anonymous FTP, 216 AltaVista search engine AOL. See America Online Advanced Search option, 77 COPYRIGHTEDAOL ART MATERIAL extensions, 103 Image Search feature, 167 Apple. See Macintosh computer America Online (AOL). See also Apple QuickTime CompuServe description of, 230 ad banner and, 60 video file, adding to Web page, 231–233 contact information, 303 Apple QuickTime VR, 225 description of, 10, 49 argument, 84 features and restrictions article page, 192–193 on Web pages, 52 Atom format, 329–330 free Web server space on, 207 AT&T WorldNet, 304 33_573276 bindex.qxd 9/9/04 2:17 PM Page 346 346 Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 7th Edition audience break tag, 131 foreign, 291 Brinkster, Inc. Web hosting company, 242 knowing, 25–26, 281–282 broadband access, 50 limiting, 287–288 browser audio file, adding to Web page, 233–234 AOL and, 95 author version of META tag, 124 data displayed by, 166 description of, 10 HTML tags and, 72 • B • online service and, 51 Baby Announcement Wizard (Yahoo!), 41 opening file in, 69, 138–139 background tags, 313–314, 320 pages displayed in, 253–254 bandwidth, 222–223 previewing Web page in, 117–118 banners, 289 testing Web page in, 12 The Bare Bones Guide to HTML, 305 types of, 26 Bare Bones Software, 305 viewing HTML document in, 86–88 BBEdit (Bare Bones Software), 106–107, Build Your Personal Page screen (Yahoo!), 305, 338–339 41, 42 Beback, Arthur (author), 18, 129 Building a Web Site For Dummies (David Berners-Lee, Tim (inventor of HTML), 14 Crowder and Rhonda Crowder), 238 Bigstep site, 197, 210, 262 building site Birthday or Party Invitation Wizard AOL or CompuServe, 53–61 (Yahoo!), 41 careful approach compared to blog spontaneous approach to, 247–248 adding content to, 274–277 GeoCities, 38–44 committing to, 268 bulleted list, 79, 134 description of, 18, 265 burnout, 23 finding, 266–267, 273 business site focus of, 266 barriers to entry, 30 resources, 328–329 creating, 206 software for, 267–268 description of, 18–20 Blogger.com (Google) as first effort, 114 description of, 268–269 permission to put up, 248 home page, 269, 270 Yahoo! premium Web site programs, 33 setting up blog, 269–274 buttons, 224 blogosphere, 266 BlogThis! option (Blogger.com), 276 body tag, 73, 76 • C • bold, displaying text in camera, digital, 168 Blogger.com, 275 Canadian Region Pack, 102 HTML tags for, 67, 73, 78, 132 career move, creating page for, 22 Boojum Expeditions site, 174, 175 careful approach to building site, 247–248 border, placing around graphic, 183 carriage return, 131 border tag, 187 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), 242–243, 329 borrowing material from Web, 68 Cascading Style Sheets For Dummies Boutell, Thomas, World Wide Web (Damon Dean), 329 FAQs site, 325 case-sensitivity, 71 33_573276 bindex.qxd 9/9/04 2:17 PM Page 347 Index 347 Catalano, Frank, Internet Marketing Composer (Netscape) For Dummies, 20, 206 adding META tags with, 125–126 CD-ROM creating initial page in, 118–123 contents of, 2–3, 337–338 description of, 32 graphical tools, 340–341 downloading, 99–104 HTML editors, 338–339 entering text in, 140–143 Internet tools, 342–343 features of, 96 Mac OS and, 336–337 free trial package compared to, 135 Mapedit program, 178 links, adding in, 154–155 Microsoft Windows and, 336 mailto link, creating, 158 NoteTab Lite, 106 placing graphic in, 183–185 Paint Shop Pro evaluation version, 177 pluses and minuses of, 93–94 ReadMe file, 335 as recommended, 92, 94 Resource.htm file, 241, 325, 338 spell checker, 107 troubleshooting, 343–344 starting, 104 Ulead GIF Animator program, 227–229 viewing source code in, 120, 121, 142–143 Web page utilities, 341–342 window, 104, 106 CERN, 14 Comprehensive Perl Archive Network CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script, site, 330 96, 239–240 compressing character formatting, advanced, 132 graphics file, 164 chat room, 239 Web page file, 214 Cheat Sheet, 32, 73 compression technology, 230 checking. See also testing CompuServe links, 152 browser of, 47 tags, 79 contact information, 304 Choose a template screen (Blogger.com), description of, 10, 49 273, 274 features and restrictions clarity, 16, 17, 19, 24–25 on Web pages, 52 Clark, Jim (Netscape founder), 97 graphical user interface, 48 Classic Skin, 103 1-2-3 Publish, 55 clickable image map, 176, 178 price of, 46 clicking away, 128 Web browser and, 95 client-side image map, 178 Web publishing support, 51–52 clip art collection, 166 Computer Lib/Dream Machines color (Ted Nelson), 145 design and, 195–196 confidential information, 19 tags for, 313–314, 320 Congratulations page of text, 133 AOL, 60 Web-safe, 165, 196 GeoCities, 44 comment, creating, 116 connections, 210 commercial site, 18–20 consistency Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script, in design, 194, 246 96, 239–240 in navigational elements, 258–259 comparing Web hosting services, 207–209 33_573276 bindex.qxd 9/9/04 2:17 PM Page 348 348 Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 7th Edition consulting service Dean, Damon, Cascading Style Sheets finding, 213 For Dummies, 329 hiring, 262 Dean, Howard (presidential candidate), 266 from Web host, 207–208 definition list, 79, 135 content. See also writing for Web description version of META tag, 124 adding to blog, 274–277 design. See also guidelines; planning borrowing without asking, 288 across pages on site, 246 bringing from word processing program avoiding mistakes with graphics, 170–171 into editing program, 115 breaking rules of, 197–198 family, describing, 111–113 color combinations and, 195–196 of home page, 109–110 consistency in, 194, 246 offensive, 21, 33, 288 download speed and, 169–170, 194–195 permissions for, 282–283 frames and, 202–203 self, describing, 110–111 graphics as time-consuming part of, 177 simplicity of pages with, 191 model, using existing sites as, 26–27, for site, creating, 251–252 249, 282 translating, 251 overview of, 189 work, describing, 113–114 predictability and, 192–193 content syndication, 329–330 principles of, 190 converting professional help with, 198 graphic file format, 168 simplicity in, 22–23, 128, 190–192 photo to JPEG format, 289 tables and, 199–202 text to HTML, 252 text size and, 196–197 copying files to Web server, 83 time spent on, 22–23 copyright issues, 223 Developer Pack, 103 Create an Account page (Blogger.com), DHTML (Dynamic HTML), 66, 88, 243 269, 270 digital camera, 168 Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages, 2nd display name, choosing, 271 edition (Dave Taylor), 172 divider style (AOL), 58 Creating Killer Web sites site, 175 divider tags, 310, 313, 319 Creating Web Graphics For Dummies document (Bud Smith and Peter Frazier), 5, 161 entering HTML tags in, 116 Crowder, David and Rhonda, Building plain text, 65 a Web Site For Dummies, 238 reloading in browser, 87–88 CSE HTML Validator Lite and CSE HTML text document, saving file as, 119 Validator (AI Internet Solutions), 341 text-only, 77–78 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), 242–243, 329 document, HTML cyberstore host, 212 blank, creating, 75–76 creating, 68–69 editing, 69–70 • D • heading and body, creating, 78–79 Dashboard option (Blogger.com), 276, 277 keeping in one folder, 83, 84, 122, 152 data transfer link, creating, 81–86 fees of Web hosting service, 209 list, creating, 79–81 GeoCities and, 33 meta-information tags, 76–78 database interactivity, 242 previewing, 69–70 33_573276 bindex.qxd 9/9/04 2:17 PM Page 349 Index 349 saving after editing, 88 English language, 25 viewing in browser, 86–88 entering text domain name in Netscape Composer, 140–141 description of, 11 in text editor, 137–138 publicity and, 260 entertainment site, 20–21 Web hosting services and, 208 eVite site, 41 dots, pair of (..), 83 experimenting, 291 Download page (Netscape), 100 expertise, in-house, developing, 262 download.com, 135 eXtensible Markup Language (XML), downloaded video file, 231 243, 332 downloading extranet, 18 Apple QuickTime, 232 file size and, 164 Internet Explorer, 105 • F • Netscape Composer, 99–104 family, describing, 111–113 speed of, 169–170, 194–195, 254 feedback on site, requesting, 218, 284 time for, 25 FeedDemon (Bradbury Software), 342 downtime and Web hosting service, 208 Fetch FTP program, 215 Dreamweaver (Macromedia) file. See also filename; folder; Composer compared to, 96, 119 multimedia file description of, 339 compressing, 164, 214, 230 free trial version of, 135 MP3, 229, 233–234 Dreamweaver MX For Dummies site, naming, 117, 119 191, 192 on other server, linking to, 148–150 drop cap, 224 on same server, linking to, 150–151 dummy, creating, 252 saving, 69, 117, 119, 168 Dynamic HTML (DHTML), 66, 88, 243 size of, 25, 55, 179–181 transferring to Web server, 214–217 zip, 214 • E • File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Earthlink, 10, 46, 49, 304 connecting to site, 215–216 Easy Designer, 54, 61 description of, 215 Easy Thumbnails (Fookes Software), 340 uploading file and disconnecting, 216–217 editing.