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ECDL WebStarter Courseware
Syllabus 1.5
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1. WEB CONCEPTS
- The Internet and The www (World Wide Web)
- Web browsers
- Search engines
- HTML
- Web server
- URL and hyperlinks
- Communications protocols
- HTTP and HTTPS
- TCP/IP
- FTP
- Web pages are not always displayed as intended!
- Why publish your data on a web site?
2. HTML - HYPERTEXT MARK-UP LANGUAGE
- What is HTML?
- Viewing The HTML code using your web browser
- Web site organization
- Www consortium (W3C) standards
- Opening a web site within FrontPage
- Viewing The html code behind a web page
- The <HTML> and </HTML> tags
- The <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags
- The <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags
- The <BODY> and </BODY> tags
- The <P> tag
- The <BR> tag
- The <B> tag
- The <I> tag
- The FONT COLOUR tag
- The FONT FACE tag
- The FONT SIZE tag
- The <HR> tag
- The <UL> tag
- The <OL> tag
- The ALIGN tag
- The <IMG> tag
- Using The FrontPage views
- Closing a web site
3. CREATING AND FORMATTING A WEB SITE
- Creating a new web site
- Typing text in to a web page
- Modifying the font colour
- Modifying the font type
- Applying bold and italic formatting
- Modifying The font size within your page
- Applying a colour to The page background
- Aligning paragraphs within a web page
- Indenting paragraphs within a web page
- Removing formatting from selected text
- Applying paragraph styles to text
- Applying bullet points or numbering to lists
- Modifying web page margins
- Specifying The web page title
4. USING PICTURES IN A WEB SITE
- Inserting pictures into a web page
- Formatting pictures
- Controlling picture alignment in relation to text
- Specifying a web page background picture
5. USING HYPERLINKS
- Inserting text based hyperlinks
- Linking to another web site using text based hyperlinks
- Including links to your home page
- Inserting picture based hyperlinks
- Linking to another web site using picture based hyperlinks
- Inserting a text or picture based e-mail hyperlink
- Modifying The hyperlink colour used within a web page
- Modifying The 'target link' within hyperlinks
6. USING TABLES
- Inserting a table
- Deleting tables
- Modifying The background colour of individual cells or The entire table
- Inserting a background picture within a table
- Modifying The table width or height
- Aligning tables
- Modifying column width and row height within tables
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Merging and splitting cells within a table
- Modifying table border widths
- Modifying cell padding within a table
7. USING FORMS
- Inserting a form into a web page
- Setting form component properties
- Modifying The submit and reset buttons within a form
- Publishing your forms on a web server
8. USING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS)
- What are cascading style sheets?
- Creating an external CSS file
- More information about cascading style sheets
9. USING FRAMED WEB SITES
- What is a framed web site?
- Using a framed site
- Creating a frame set
- Formatting a frameset
- Controlling The scrollbar display
- Controlling The size of each frame element
- Controlling frame margins
- Controlling borders
- Formatting frame borders
- Using nested framesets
- Creating a nested frameset web site
- Setting The target frame for a hyperlink
10. PROOFING AND UPLOADING
- Always proof documents before publication
- Spell checking individual pages
- Spell checking your entire web
- Checking links and page file sizes
- Beware of using large pictures within a web page
- Common picture formats used on The web
- What does publishing to a web server involve?
- Web server issues - file name capitalisation & folder structures
- Publicizing your site
11. ADDITIONAL ISSUES TO CONSIDER
- What law governs your web site?
- Copyright issues
- What are computer viruses?
- How do viruses infect PCs?
- How to prevent virus damage
- To password protect your computer
- Make sure your web server is virus free!
- What is a firewall?
- What are cookies?
- What are digital certificates?
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