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The tutorials listed below are designed with general information to help you develop and deliver your sites on just about any web server. However, some of the information provided in the tutorials may address specific tools. The goal is to help you gain a quick understanding of the methods and processes to complete your tasks quickly and effectively.
1: Basic Site Building
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These are basics of what is needed to develop any web site. Even before these items can be put to use you must have content. A good site cannot be built until you have your message planned, organized, and fully documented. Only then can you hope to present a site of any use.
- Where to Begin: starts you off with most of the choices you need to make to build a web site.
- HTML Basics: helps you develop a basic understanding of how a web page is constructed.
- Style Guide: provides a better understanding and goals for developing a great web site.
- Accessible Design: ensures that all will have equal access to your site, reaching a larger audience.
- Web Forms: steps you through the creation of HTML forms that are used to send or request information.
- Image Help: provides some basic web images to get you started and a Web-Safe Color Coding Chart to help with design.
- ImageMaps: will illustrate the correct way to make multiple links on an image.
2: Publishing the Site, and Searches
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These steps and processes are used for actually getting your content onto a web site. In addition to the process to post your site are some of the steps you should use to make sure it is delivered without errors or is actually found by others.
- File Transfer: explains the function and use of FTP/SSH/SCP programs used to publish your web site to a remote server.
- Command Shell: helps you to understand how Telnet/SSH is used to access some of the server functionality of your account effectively.
- 'NOT FOUND' Errors: offers a solution to help avoid site errors and enlist the aid of your visitors, making use of .htaccess settings for site error control.
- Directory Browsing: public browsing is generally turned off by default, but it is easy to permit it in directories where you choose.
- Promoting Your Pages (Searches): explains how to better present and promote your pages to get more visitors. (Includes tools for: META tags, and personalized searches.)
3: Construction for More Appeal
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Once you have your basic site up and running you may want to enhance it or simplify the process of updating content. In this section we present some ideas and practices for improving your site.
- Cascading Style Sheet (CSS): add more control and flair to your pages, with less work, when viewed with newer browsers.
- CSS: Framed Block an example of applying advanced CSS techniques to simplify site maintenance.
- GuestBook: a simple application of server side scripting languages, like ColdFusion (CFM) and PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), to provide a guestbook.
- JavaScripts: can add a bit of appeal to a site or enhance an already good design, using things like animations or menus or mouseovers. Scripts can also be used as tools and our bookmarklets demonstrate this use.
- Browser and Computer Display Resolution: is a handy JavaScript that can be used to check the current browser and monitor settings. Great for testing your pages at different viewing sizes.
4: Additional Development
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This section is meant to offer some tips and insight toward furthering your web development. It offers suggestions to make use of some extra development strategies and offers references to other popular sources.
- Browser Limitations: illustrates inconsistencies and incompatibilities between browser versions and some methods of HTML coding.
- Server Side Include (SSI): offers enhanced functionality for your site with little work, such as: re-purposing content (inserting parts to simplify template designs), conditional operations (taking action dependent on desired conditions).
- MIME Type Request: Help! Why won't my file download?
- Outlook Express Spell Checker: If you use Outlook Express but cannot get the spell check function to work, these instructions will get you going.
- Useful Web Site Development Sources: a short list of sites that provide in-depth instruction or a different perspective on a topic.
