Learning Corel WebMaster Suite – Web Design

Intro Level Disk

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Overview:

This video, from the Learn2.com Tutorials by ViaGrafix series, demonstrates building a web page with Corel’s WebMaster Suite.  I found the tape useful, first because it shows how to build a WebPage one step at a time, and also because it discusses issues like readability, browser compatibility, and other fine points that affect your WebPages’s success. Recommended for people who have decided to create their own web-page, and need to understand the many related issues and preliminary questions.
 

Chapter by Chapter

Chapter One: The questions raised in this chapter will help the user identify his own needs, whether they are complex or simple. Basics include finding a service provider, storage space, cost, speed, and questions to ask the provider. Chapter One also shows how to transfer the learning files to your computer, open the WebMaster program, and designate a folder to hold your web files.

Chapter Two gets into the Web Design program. A template is used to create a new web page. Previewing templates, loading and customizing are described, including inserting tables, forms and hyperlinks. The program screen and toolbars are shown and explained.

Chapter Three discusses what makes a good webpage, organization and eye appeal, and why some sites fail.  The program uses the template to build a webpage, and the user can watch and create the same webpage along with the tape.

Some of the features demonstrated include changing formatting features, editing text, inserting text created in other programs, viewing the html code and editing the code, differences between line breaks and paragraphs, horizontal lines, indents, Find & Replace.

Chapter Four presents some more advanced features, such as scrolling marquees, bookmarking within a webpage, numbered and bulleted lists. Hyperlinks are given the importance they deserve. Each of these features is first defined, and then created, while the user works along with the tape.

Finally, the finished page is previewed and saved. Now the user only needs to upload it to his web site, and he is the author of his own WebPage. 1