Aim:
To introduce students of the short course on Web Cartography (WEB.5) to the basics of HTML and (im)possibilities of the use of graphics on the web.
 
Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants should:

• understand the basics of HTML;
• be able to build a simple page for publishing on the Internet;
• know the most common used graphic file formats;
• understand the relation between resolution, used colours,file size and download time of images.

Materials and equipment:
Since you are able to view these pages, it will be obvious you have a Personal Computer at your disposal. Further you will need:

• A very basic text editor (Notepad (MicroSoft) or SimpleText (Apple Macintosh))
• The images, to be saved locally.
• The browser you are using now.

Time needed:
Approximately 4 hours
 
Introduction:
This short course is subdivided in 10 steps.
All steps have exercises included, except for the last two steps. It is strongly recommended to do all the exercises.
If you already make pages for the Web, then please take note of the content of each exercise.

• Step 1: Design of a site.
• Step 2: Basic page setup
• Step 3: Text
• Step 4: Lists
• Step 5: Tables
• Step 6: Web colour
• Step 7: Images
• Step 8: Linking
• Step 9: Frames and frame sets
• Step 8: Java
• Step 9: Plug-ins
• Step 10: New developments