Customizing Activities

First, supposed some time has passed since you used Filamentality and you've run across some great new Web sites. It would be silly to do Filamentality all over again, so you might as well learn how to add new hypertext links. You can also access other HTML tutorials and download an HTML editor if you like.

You may have already fiddled with line thickness and width (Horizontal Rules) when you added your activities in the last lesson, but you might want to also fiddle with text sizes and styles

You may have noticed that many Web pages have different colored backgrounds. Sure you can do this (easily!). You may have also noticed some spiderwebs foating in the background of the Filamentality pages. Adding a textured background is almost as easy as making it colorful. And once you change the background color or add a texture, you might need to think about adjusting your Web page's text color as black may not work so well anymore. Also, while we're on the topic of text color, you may have noticed that it's possible to vary the text Colors.. If you get into the color thing, you might want to tap into some good color resources that exist on the Web.

I can hear you now, "okay, okay, but I want to add pictures to my pages; how to I do that?" Start by getting Introduced to the topic of graphics and learn background info and guidelines for using graphics in Web pages before you actually begin to grab graphics, use a scanner, convert your images to GIF format, and do some basic Photoshop editing. Finally, you can even learn how to make one of those cool, 3-D text banner graphics with Photoshop.

Once you've got a Web-ready image, the next step is to be Introduced to placing images/graphics, then you can head right into the HTML of adding images, find out why you want to use height / width and alt tags. Then there are appearance issues like aligning images so they appear where you want them on the Web page. If you have text near one of your images, you'll want to know how to add "White Space" between images & text. Another appearance thing is whether you want to put any kind of borders around your images. Finally, sometimes you might want to use your images as hotlinks to other Internet sites.

So there's more stuff to do with your page if you want to. Take care and let us know how we can make this site better.

Last revised May 21, 1996 By the SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellows Applications Design Team/Wired Learning http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/beyond/acts.custom.html Copyright © 1996 Pacific Bell -- All Rights Reserved