Overview

Now virtually any software can be used to create a Home Page. Software today is capable of creating interactive Web sites, but are you? Are you going to put the same old boring presentations up on the Web that are shown in your office? This tutorial will teach you how to develop more interesting presentations with multimedia features that are Net-ready.

Many times when giving a seminar at a large corporation, I find that the users of the software have no idea of its capabilities. I find that basic concepts, such as text styles in a word processor, are not used let alone understood. Also, I find that many concepts and techniques are shared between different types of software but that the users have missed this fact. For example, everyone knows how to select text in a word processing program. Did you realize that virtually every software application with text uses the same drag and swipe technique? Of course you did, but have you tried techniques learned in one program on another? There are so many shared techniques and concepts that you really know a minimum of 25% of any software application you open. To open a program, use the menu bar and go to File, Open. To Cut, Copy or Paste use the Edit menu. To change the look of an object use the Format menu. To save a program use the menu bar and go to File, Save. Get the picture now? You are never starting from scratch when you open a new software package. So to learn how to design a Web page, we need to pull together all the varied skills you’ve learned to date on other software applications! We will use common off-the-shelf applications. And remember, even though I may not be using your application, the techniques are the same or similar.

At the end of this document you will find Net terms defined along with a list of plug-ins and helpful Web sites.