Tips & Help
Here are some additional HTML-related resources for students and/or teachers. Adding your own HTML to your EcoKids Club Home Page is optional but it can be a lot of fun. Look below the Links and Books to find out how you can test your HTML to see how it will look on the web.
Links
Easy to understand examples of how to use HTML to create
a web page.
http://www.make-a-web-site.com/
A beginners guide to HTML (recommended for older students).
This page also includes a complete downloadable HTML
guide in PDF format.
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerPrintable.html
A full list of HTML colour names for use with the <font>
tag.
http://www.htmlsource.f2s.com/stylesheets/namedcolours.html
What is HTML? An easy to understand explanation.
http://www.htmlsource.f2s.com/starthere/whatishtml.html
A nice set of HTML tutorials.
http://www.htmlsource.f2s.com/myfirstsite/index.html
Graphics Software
All the programs listed here have free 30-day trial versions available for download. Be sure to check the System Requirements listed for each one as they may require more memory than is available on older computers.
PaintShop Pro
http://www.jasc.com/download_4.asp?
Fireworks
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/trial/
Books
Make Your Own Web Page - A Guide for Kids (Amazon.com)
How to Test Your HTML
If you've added HTML to your text and want to see how it will look in a browser here's what you should do.
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Type your Home Page text using word processing software like AppleWorks, ClarisWorks or Microsoft Word. Most school computers will have one of these.
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Add the tags you want from the examples on the Preparing The Text page.
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Type <html><body> at the very top of your text and </body></html> at the very bottom. This will tell the browser that it's looking at HTML and that the words between the two <body> tags are the HTML text you want people to see.
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Choose "Save As" from the "File" menu and save your text as HTML like this: myfilename.html (replace myfilename with whatever name you want and don't forget to add a dot before the "html".)
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Open your web browser (usually Internet Explorer or Netscape) and choose "Open File" in the "File" menu; then find the html file you just made and open it.
