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- WebTutor v3.6 Professional Web Design
- HTML Authoring Tutorials Joe Barta
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- Latest version always available from http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/
-
- DESCRIPTION: Easy to use web page authoring tutorials covering basic
- and advanced web page design. The tutorials are in HTML format so
- you can go through them with your web browser. If you've never
- created a web page before, the basic tutorial will guide you gently
- though basics of HTML. And, if you know the basics, the advanced
- tutorials will show you how to add additional features to your page.
-
- THESE TUTORIALS ARE DONATIONWARE. See donationware.html for details.
- They are not copyrighted. You may use and/or distribute them to
- your hearts content according to the guidelines below.
- - If you wish to post them unaltered on your public or private
- server, you can. (The package was written keeping this in mind.
- All pertinent links are relative. Just unzip and upload the whole
- pile to your server as-is.)
- - If you wish to translate them into another language, you can.
- - If you are a teacher and you want to use them for teaching
- purposes, you can.
- - If you want to include them on a CD with other Internet programs,
- you can.
- - If, for some lame reason, you copy them verbatim and call them
- your own, I will have no choice but to tell Mom, and boy will you
- be in trouble!
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
- 1) Windows95/98. I've abandoned the 8.3 file naming convention. Win3x
- users may have some trouble. They should however be able to access
- everything online though. I'm not that familiar with other
- operating systems, but I'm guesing the tutorials are still plenty
- useable.
- 2) A graphical web browser. Preferably Netscape Navigator 3.0 or
- later. MS Internet Explorer 3.0 or later will do also. If you use
- something other than the big two everything should still be OK.
- Very old browsers might hit a few potholes though.
- 3) A text editor. Notepad will do nicely for now.
- 4) A comfortable chair and an attractive member of the opposite sex
- to tell you how computer geeks are sexy and to rub your neck if it
- gets stiff.
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- INSTRUCTIONS: Unzip and start with index.html. Have fun. No files are
- copied, moved, modified or otherwise scattered about your computer.
- To "uninstall" these tutorials, simply delete the contents of the
- webtutor directory.
-
- IN A PAST LIFE these tutorials were released separately as "So, you
- want to make a Web Page!", "Table Tutor", "Form Tutor" and "Frames
- Tutor".
-
- EMAIL: I get a lot of email asking for help on this problem or that,
- and I'm afraid there isn't enough time to answer them all. I do
- answer a few occasionally however, and they all at least hit my
- eyes.
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- Have fun & good luck!
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- Joe Barta jbarta@apk.net
- Professional Web Design http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/
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- VERSION HISTORY:
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- v3.6 (July/99)
- - Status changed from freeware to donationware.
- - Minor corrections
-
- v3.5 (April/99)
- - Got "back to basics" all the way around. Long overdue updates.
- Dumped some fluff.
- - Removed the various smaller tutorial-ettes. (These will still be
- available and downloadble from the web site.)
- - Slightly beefed up the 4 main tutorials.
- - Added an updated barebones guide to HTML.
- - Sprinkled in a few FAQs.
- - Handy Dandy Font Viewer streamlined and doesn't kill IE any more.
- - Color Picker slightly improved and IE friendly.
- - Form Tutor contains more info regarding the notorious mailto action
- along with links to CGI resources.
- - Added Mailto Converter to the distribution because links to mailto
- formatter kept disappearing.
- - Dumped the JS menu in favor of a main Table of Contents. (A new,
- improved and reusable SiteMap is in the works... stay tuned.)
- - Improved navigation through the pages.
- - Dumped the self-extracting exe distribution for a simple zip file.
- Abandoned the idea for a "professional" installation. Why use a
- hammer to kill a fly?
- - Numerous additions/corrections,improvements.
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- What this 3.5 version is NOT:
- - It's not a tutorial based on HTML 4.0 (it loosely follows 3.2)
- - It doesn't get into Style Sheets
- - There's no mention of DHTML (Not specifically at least)
- - It does not concentrate on authoring documents that validate
- against any published HTML recommendation.
-
-
- v3.0 (July/97)
- Bundled all four main tutorials into one biggun.
- Added Color Picker
- Threw in as a bonus a few other tutorial-ettes. (oh boy!)
- Included a remote Table of Contents for JavaScript Enabled browsers.
- Included a copy of Kevin Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML.
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-
- these versions were 4 separate tutorials
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- v2.02
- Minor additions & corrections.
-
- v2.01
- Added link to Web Resources. Minor typo corrections. Minor additions.
-
- v2.0
- Changed all html file extensions to htm. Numerous alterations,
- additions, corrections.
-
- v1.0 (Sept/96)
- Original release.
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