HTML Made Easy

HTML, the markup language used to write documents for the World Wide Web, is not difficult to learn. You can master the basics and begin creating Web pages by signing up for one of the workshops being offered at UB this semester (see below for details), or you can teach yourself by following the easy instructions in the Undergraduate Library's Internet guides, Creating Documents for the Web (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/ugl/intguides/create.html) and Enhancing Your Homepage (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/ugl/intguides/enhance.html).

The UGL guides are aimed at students who want to make homepages, but faculty and staff who are interested in learning the fundamentals of tagging and linking will find them useful too. Once you've become familiar with the basic concepts, you'll be able to compose your own HTML or look at source code from other documents and adapt it for your needs.

In addition to step-by-step instructions for creating an HTML document, the UGL guides link to other resources that you can click on or print out for further study. These include NCSA's A Beginner's Guide to HTML (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html) and Yahoo's meta-list of HTML guides (http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=html+guides). There's also a link to Images on UBWings (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/images/), so you can incorporate some fanciful graphics into your Web page design like the spinning envelope or one of the animated "under construction" signs.

For dates and times of HTML workshops offered by the Undergraduate Library, see http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/ugl/class/int.html. Computing and Information Technology workshops are listed at http://wings.buffalo.edu/computing/workshops/schedule.html.

For help with connecting to the World Wide Web, contact the CIT Help Desk at 645-3542.

-Will Hepfer and Nancy Schiller, University Libraries