Learning to write a web page

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Of course you can! We all can. It just takes time. It's a bit like learning a new language, or playing a new computer game: it takes quite a while to get really really good at it, but with a little practice you can have a lot of fun already.

Disclaimer: This course was written for children of around 10 years old, as in Kids' Kabin 2, the Upper Key Stage 2 department of the Out of School Club at my children's school. Please do not use it as the ultimate resource for web design.

Here you will find a list of steps this course will take. Do them one by one for the best effect. You can always get back to this list by clicking on 'Back to contents' near the bottom of a course step. Also at the bottom of each course step, you will find a list of clickable links to all the other steps. The step you are in, will be just black in that list.

1. What do we need?
2. HTML and the .html file
3. Tags
4. Formatting
5. Head and body
6. Size and shape
7. Colour
8. Pictures
9. Special characters
10. Hyperlinks
11. Combining and nesting tags
12. Lists

And now for the more difficult stuff:

1. Tables
2. Frames
3. Style sheets
4. Maps
5. Forms
6. Scripts
7. Publicising (Meta tags)
8. Bits and pieces

There are some excellent web courses on the Internet. You can use them to learn more, or just as a 'reference book' for all the tags which are available. Here are some you will definitely like:

• NCSA - A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page.
• Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML, at w3.org.