Many sources are available in sites on the Internet to help you learn more
about how to design a Web page. A good starting place to learn about Web page design is from a computer toy called "Logiblocs". Like an electronic Lego building set, Logiblocs are various electonic "building blocks." They make it less complicated and even fun to learn many of the skill involved in programming and Web page design. Their Internet site is www.logiblocs.com/educat.html.
An excellent free on-line information source on how to design a Web page is About.com. Jean Kaiser's Guide to Web Design at www.webdesign.about.com offers information on HTML, page layout, Web graphics, testing, and other elements of Internet page design. You can also meet Web page designers on-lineat another of About.com's links, the Web Design Community Bulletin Board.
A Beginner's Guide to HTML is available free on-line from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Another source for learning about HTML is the HTML Writes Guild at www.hwg.org.
For more advanced explanation of HTML and the structure of a Web page, visit Tom O'Haver's Web site at the University of Maryland at College Park: www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/NetscapeHandout.html. You learn about addign sound and graphics to Web pages.
Surf the Web for these sites to see how different various Web pages can be:
www.dabulls.com. The official Web site of the Chicago Bulls basketball team. At one link, you can see color photos of the team, including former star Micheal Jordan. At another link, you can listen to audio files with exciting closing moments of the team's championship games.
www.worldkids.net. The Web page of World Kids Network. You acess a homepage that is a Site Overview page telling what links to go to. One link is to "Critters Area," which has information about prehistoric and extinct animals, endangered species, bugs, and pets. Another
link is to chat room where you can communicat on-line with others who have similar interests.
www.bluemountain.com. Blue Mountain Arts is a company that lets you send free animated and sound greeting cards for birthdays or holidays. The moving animation and bouncy music greeting cards are fun to watch, then e-mail to friends.