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On-line web tutorial with model web pages you may use as templates.
Church of the Prodigal Son, A model web site designed for for seekers Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church, A model web site designed for for a local church Church of the Good Samaritan, another model web site designed for a local church Interchange story, How beautiful is your congregation's web site? |
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HTML files to help select colors - To download any of them, select them with the right mouse button.
color.htm - Provides color swatches to help you pick appropriate color code or name to use for backgrounds.
colorfnt.htm - Same as above but showing colors as text to help you pick appropriate color to use for fonts.
ncolors.htm - An update on "color.htm" that provides 40 additional colors.
ndcolors.htm - RECOMMENDED: shows all of the non-dithering colors giving their related codes.
General HTML Resources
Here are two HTML cheat sheets that may be used as a handy reference for the HTML codes that are most frequently used. HTML.TXT is a text file you can view with your browswer. HTML.RTF is an RTF (Rich Text Format) file you can open with almost any word processor and print with text enhancements that make the cheat sheet easier to use.
htmlib30.exe - HTML on-line help in the form a a Windows 3.1 HELP file. Run the program in a directory of your choice to extract the files. Then create a Windows 95/98/Me shortcut to HTML.HLP from your desktop. You will find this little program to be a big help while looking at the tutorial or when writing your own code, especially the Quick Reference Guide,
Note: Most people putting content on web sites use a program that provides a graphic user interface between them and the HTML code they generate. There are many such programs. Front Page is Microsoft's entry and you can get a limited version with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Another such program is called Hot Dog. There are many others. Some are free, others cost very little. "Professional" versions cost more. Many can be downloaded from the web. I don't really know how to use any of them, but the ones I've tried work, though I've not been satisfied with the quality of the HTML code they generate. Many word processors and desktop publishing programs also output HTML files. In my experience, these "features" are not terribly useful, but they might help you get started. Although it is not necessary to know HTML, it is helpful to learn some code to understand some signficant aspects of the medium. This will help you make your pages both attractive and usable. You can learn some HTML here by looking at the source code for the files that are part of the tutorial (above). The pages for the "Christ Chapel Episcopal Church" have been created especially for this purpose, progressing from very simple to increasingly complex pages.
There is a good tutorial on HTML code at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html, where you will also find links to many other HTML related resources.