Help Pages

The following topics will be covered during the in-class HTML tutorials. You are still required to spend your own time learning these concepts. Learning how to code webpages properly requires individual practice and experimentation. To that end, the in-class tutorials are available here for you to make reference to while working on your own webpage but this is not a substitute for reading your textbook as you are responsible for all the information presented in class and within the textbook (unless otherwise stated in the help pages below).


Tutorial Topic Date Topic Taught
Welcome Week Number 1
Hour 1: Understanding HTML and XML Week Number 1
Hour 2: Create a Web Page Right Now Week Number 1
Hour 3: Linking to Other Web Pages Week Number 2
Hour 4: Publishing Your HTML Pages Week Number 4
Hour 5: Basic Text Alignment and Formatting Week Number 1
Hour 6: Creating Text Links and Advanced Formatting Week Number 2
Hour 7: Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics Week Number 4
Hour 8: Putting Graphics on a Web Page Week Number 4
Hour 9: Custom Backgrounds and Colors Week Number 2
Hour 10: Graphical Links and Imagemaps Week Number 6
Hour 11: Using Tables to Organize & Lay Out Your Pages Week Number 5
Hour 18: Gathering Information with HTML Forms Week Number 7
Hour 22: Organizing and Managing a Web Site Week Number 3

The following pages are provided to further assist you in the creation of your Web Pages for your projects. You are responsible for the information that is contained within these pages and you will be tested on the information given.


Advanced Web Development

In this section there are simply a set of extra resources for your convienence. You as a student are not responsible for any material in this section of the help pages. This section of the site is for more advance students who wish to take web development to the next stage. If you are interested there are some excellent web sites given below for your convienence. It is recommended that you look at some of these sites to gain insight into some of the future developments of the World Wide Web.

  • Want to start your own web server, here is one of the most popular web servers in use today:
    http://www.apache.org
  • You want to look at the people who set the standards for the World Wide Web, then go to this site:
    http://www.w3c.org
  • Ever wonder how to do dynamic web programming, well Java Server Programming and PHP are two of the latest languages that allow for dynamic content. Check out the http://www.google.ca search engine and type in keywords JSP or PHP for more information on those topics.
  • Ever wonder how shopping carts are done on the web, how your you are able to log into your hotmail accounts? Oracle Database Systems are the keyword you should be looking for.
  • Where is the Web Going now? Ever heard of eXtensible Markup Language! This is the future of the web and it's the reason you are all coding the new XHTML standard. Check out the World Wide Web Consortium for more information about this new exciting area of web development.
  • If you are a really interested in this kind of stuff be sure to read the Hours in your text book that are not covered in this class.