YAHOO! SITEBUILDER FOR BEGINNERS
CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK TEXT FORMATTING COMMANDS WHAT YOU’RE FORBIDDEN TO READ FOOLISH ASSUMPTIONS HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED PART I: GETTING TO KNOW YAHOO! SITEBUILDER PART II: CREATING “COOL” WEB PAGES PART III: GOING FURTHER: DEVELOPING “WICKED COOL” WEB PAGES PART IV: MANAGING YOUR WEB SITE PART V: THE PART OF TENS ICONS USED IN THIS BOOK WHERE TO GO FROM HERE DISCOVERING HOW WEB PUBLISHING WORKS CREATING AND DESIGNING ON YOUR COMPUTER PUBLISHING YOUR SITE VISITING YOUR SITE FROM ANYWHERE REPEATING THE PROCESS SIGNING UP FOR YAHOO! WEB HOSTING DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING YAHOO! SITEBUILDER EXPLORING YAHOO! SITEBUILDER SITEBUILDER PANES SITEBUILDER TOOLBAR GETTING STARTED IN WEB PUBLISHING STOP #1: CREATING A WEB SITE WITH THE SITE CREATION WIZARD STOP #2: EDITING YOUR PAGES STOP #3: PREVIEWING YOUR SITE STOP #4: PUBLISHING YOUR SITE TO YAHOO! WEB HOSTING GOING FORWARD CREATING A PURPOSE-DRIVEN SITE ORGANIZING YOUR SITE MOCKING UP YOUR SITE STRUCTURE FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES AVOIDING DEEP HIERARCHIES PLANNING FOR EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK WRITING CONTENT FOR YOUR WEB SITE EVALUATING YOUR SITE WORKING WITH YOUR WEB SITE CREATING A NEW SITE IMPORTING A WEB SITE YOU’VE PREVIOUSLY CREATED OPENING AN EXISTING SITE SAVING YOUR SITE CLOSING A SITE DELETING A SITE PREVIEWING YOUR SITE BEFORE YOU PUBLISH READY FOR THE BIG LEAGUES: PUBLISHING YOUR WEB SITE WORKING WITH WEB PAGES CREATING A NEW WEB PAGE SAVING A WEB PAGE OPENING A WEB PAGE CLOSING ONE OR MORE WEB PAGES DELETING A WEB PAGE COPYING A WEB PAGE RENAMING A WEB PAGE MODIFYING PAGE PROPERTIES SPECIFYING META DATA MODIFYING THE PAGE LAYOUT WORKING WITH PAGE ELEMENTS SELECTING ELEMENTS MOVING ELEMENTS OTHER COMMON ELEMENT-BASED TASKS LAYERING ELEMENTS ALIGNING AND SPACING PAGE ELEMENTS EXPLORING SITEBUILDER TEMPLATES WHAT IS A SITEBUILDER TEMPLATE? AVOIDING “TEMPLATE REMORSE” NEED MORE? DOWNLOADING ADDITIONAL TEMPLATES CREATING YOUR OWN TEMPLATE PAGE USING TEMPLATES OR GOING SOLO? WORKING WITH TEXT ADDING TEXT TO A PAGE ADDING TEXT FROM ANOTHER SOURCE TO YOUR PAGE EDITING TEXT ON A PAGE MOVING TEXT AROUND A PAGE RESIZING YOUR TEXT CONTAINER CAUGHT YA: CHECKING YOUR SPELLING AUTOMATICALLY ALERTING YOU OF SPELLING MISTAKES CHECKING YOUR SPELLING MANUALLY SETTING SPELL CHECKING PREFERENCES TWEAKING THE LOOK OF YOUR TEXT DECIDING WHICH FONT STYLE TO USE SETTING THE FONT STYLE AND SIZE GIVING YOUR TEXT SOME STYLE CHANGING TEXT COLOR STYLIN’ YOUR PARAGRAPHS MAKING LISTS INDENTING YOUR TEXT FORMATTING YOUR TEXT BOXES CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR OF YOUR TEXT BOX RESETTING THE TEXT BACKGROUND BUT YOUR HONOR I WAS JUSTIFIED! GETTING JUMPY: ADDING LINKS TO YOUR TEXT LINKING TO ANOTHER PAGE IN YOUR SITE LINKING TO A PAGE ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB LINKING TO AN E-MAIL ADDRESS LINKING TO A FILE EDITING AND REMOVING A LINK BE CHOOSY: WHY ALL GRAPHICS AREN’T CREATED EQUAL CHOOSING THE BEST WEB GRAPHIC TYPES SIZING YOUR IMAGES APPROPRIATELY ADDING A PICTURE TO A PAGE USING SITEBUILDER CLIP ART USING YOUR OWN IMAGES MOVING A PICTURE AROUND THE PAGE CHANGING THE PROPERTIES OF YOUR PICTURE CHANGING THE IMAGE ASSIGNING ALT TEXT SPECIFYING A MOUSE-OVER IMAGE ASSIGNING A LINK TO YOUR PICTURE SIZING UP A PICTURE RESIZING A PICTURE RETURNING A PICTURE TO ITS ORIGINAL SIZE CREATING A THUMBNAIL PICTURE TURNING A PICTURE INTO A BACKGROUND IMAGE INSERTING A TABLE ON A PAGE THE QUICK-AND-EASY APPROACH: USING THE TOOLBAR THE DETAIL-ORIENTED APPROACH: USING THE CREATE NEW TABLE DIALOG BOX FILLING YOUR TABLE WITH CONTENT ADJUSTING THE TABLE FORMATTING PROPERTIES SELECTING TABLE CELLS TWEAKING THE TABLE INSERTING A NEW ROW INSERTING A NEW COLUMN DELETING A ROW OR COLUMN MERGING TWO CELLS SPLITTING A CELL NAVIGATING YOUR WEB SITE EFFECTIVE NAVIGATION BAR DESIGN CONSISTENCY NAVIGATION BAR PLACEMENT CRYSTAL-CLEAR LABELING SHORT, DESCRIPTIVE LABELING ADDING A BASIC NAVIGATION BAR TO YOUR WEB SITE ADDING A NAVIGATION BAR WHEN YOU CREATE YOUR SITE CREATING A NAVIGATION BAR AFTER YOUR SITE IS BUILT USE IT AGAIN, SAM: INSERTING YOUR NAVIGATION BAR INTO ANOTHER PAGE STANDARDIZING THE LOCATION OF YOUR NAVIGATION BAR TWEAKING YOUR NAVIGATION BAR CREATING CUSTOMIZED NAVIGATION BARS ADDING A TEMPLATE-BASED NAVIGATION BAR CREATING A TEXT-BASED NAVIGATION BAR CREATING A NAVIGATION BAR WITH YOUR OWN IMAGES HOW FORMS WORK: DISCOVERING THE “FORM FACTOR” INSTANT FORMS: ADDING PRE-BUILT FORMS TO YOUR PAGE THE CONTACT US FORM THE FEEDBACK FORM MADE-TO-ORDER FORMS: CREATING A FORM FROM SCRATCH WORKING WITH FORM ELEMENTS ADDING A TEXT FIELD OR TEXT AREA ADDING A LIST BOX ADDING A CHECK BOX ADDING A GROUP OF RADIO BUTTONS ADDING SUBMIT AND RESET BUTTONS WHAT A FORM RESPONSE LOOKS LIKE AFTER THE CLICK: TWEAKING THE FORM SETTINGS SENDING THE FORM RESPONSES TO A DIFFERENT E-MAIL ADDRESS SPECIFYING YOUR OWN CONFIRMATION AND ERROR PAGE WORKING WITH ADD-ONS INSERTING AN ADD-ON PREVIEWING YOUR ADD-ON ACCESSING THE PROPERTIES OF YOUR ADD-ON CUTTING, COPYING, AND PASTING ADD-ONS INSERTING A COUNTER DISPLAYING A TIME AND DATE STAMP PROVIDING A YAHOO! MAP OFFERING YAHOO! DIRECTIONS SEARCHING THE WEB WITH A YAHOO! SEARCH BOX SEARCHING YOUR SITE WITH A SITE SEARCH UNDERSTANDING THE TWO PIECES OF SITE SEARCH INSERTING A SITE SEARCH ADD-ON REMOVING THE SITE SEARCH ADD-ON FROM YOUR SITE SHOWING YOUR ONLINE PERSONA WITH A PRESENCE INDICATOR KEEPING AN EYE ON THE BOTTOM DOLLAR: LOAN CALCULATOR MULTIMEDIA: GOING BEYOND MERE PICTURES WORKING WITH VIDEO CLIPS WORKING WITH AUDIO BRINGING YOUR PAGES TO LIFE WITH PAGE EFFECTS VIEWING THE PAGE EFFECTS PANE ACCESSING THE PAGE EFFECTS PROPERTIES CUTTING, COPYING, AND PASTING PAGE EFFECTS ADDING SITEBUILDER’S PAGE EFFECTS DANCING WITH THE BORDER PATROL JUMPING WITH BOUNCING IMAGES HITCHIN’ A RIDE WITH THE FLYBY TAGGING ALONG WITH THE MOUSE: TEXT TAIL AND IMAGE TAIL EFFECTS ADDING RANDOM ACTS OF EFFECTS WITH RANDOM APPARITIONS STAYING PUT WITH AN EDGE-LOCKED PICTURE ADDING IE PAGE TRANSITIONS KNOWING WHEN AND WHEN NOT TO USE PAGE EFFECTS MULTIMEDIA ISSUES PAGE EFFECTS ISSUES LOOKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN: HTML AND JAVASCRIPT LETTING SITEBUILDER GET ITS HANDS DIRTY, NOT YOURS YUP, YOU CAN “DO CODE,” BUT WHY? PEEKING INTO THE HTML BEHIND YOUR WEB PAGE HTML ELEMENT PAGE LEVEL HTML PAGE ELEMENT HTML ADDING YAHOO! HTML ADD-ONS TO YOUR WEB SITE ADDING NEWS HEADLINES, STOCK QUOTES, OR WEATHER INCORPORATING A PULL-DOWN MENU OPENING A GUESTBOOK USING THIRD-PARTY SCRIPTS IN YOUR WEB SITE ADDING IFRAMES TO YOUR WEB PAGE CONNECTING MAJOR TOM TO GROUND CONTROL VIEWING SITE ACTIVITY CHECKING YOUR SITE’S STATUS WORKING WITH THE FILE MANAGER UPLOADING A FILE DELETING A FILE HAVE A SNAFU? RECOVER AN EARLIER VERSION OF YOUR WEB SITE WORKING WITH PAYPAL BUTTONS ADDING A PAYPAL BUY NOW BUTTON ADDING A PAYPAL DONATIONS BUTTON BUILDING AN ONLINE STORE WITH YAHOO! MERCHANT SOLUTIONS ADDING A NEW FIELD TO THE PRODUCT CATALOG ADDING PRODUCTS TO YOUR PRODUCT CATALOG PUBLISHING YOUR PRODUCT CATALOG ENABLING YOUR PRODUCT CATALOG FOR USE WITH SITEBUILDER IMPORTING YOUR ONLINE CATALOG CREATING A STORE PAGE ADDING A SHOPPING CART BUTTON COMPLETING THE FINAL MERCHANT REQUIREMENTS ADDITIONAL STORE CATALOG TASKS ADDING A PRODUCT MODULE ADDING STORE TAGS VIEWING PRODUCT MODULE PROPERTIES REFRESHING YOUR CATALOG INFORMATION DELETING YOUR CATALOG DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL ELIMINATE COUNTERS, CLICHÉS, AND ALL THINGS CUTE DON’T LET YOUR SITE GROW MOLD HOBBIT-SIZE YOUR PAGES HEY, THEY’RE FREE: TEST WITH MULTIPLE BROWSERS DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE TEXT TAKE THE TEN-SECOND TEST-DRIVE DESIGN FOR TECHNOLOGY LAGGARDS, BUT LEAVE BEHIND THE STONE AGE PUBLISHING YOUR TEXT AS AN IMAGE NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER ASSUME USING THE INSERT PALETTE AVOIDING THE PAIN WHEN WORKING WITH PANES AUTOMATICALLY SAVING YOUR WORK WORKING WITH MULTIPLE PAGES OPEN AUTOMATICALLY RESTORING YOUR SESSION MANAGING MULTIPLE SITES QUICK ACCESS TO THE YAHOO! WEB HOSTING CONTROL PANEL EMBRACING GRIDLOCK TURNING GRIDLINES ON AND OFF SNAPPING TO THE GRID ADJUSTING THE GRID SIZE CHANGING THE LOOK AND FEEL OF SITEBUILDER PREVIEWING WITH MULTIPLE BROWSERS