Central Baptist Church
Learning Community Class - Winter 1997
The On Line Church
Creating a Web Page Part II
What features set apart the cool web pages from the mundane?
- Graphics, especially animated graphics. This is
suprisingly easy to do. All you need is Microsoft's GIF
Animator.
- Graphical maps to other pages in your site. These are
called image maps and can be implemented in a variety of
ways. Most image maps are server-side which means the web
server takes the location of where you clicked and
figures our which page to send back. A client-side image
map requires programming with a script language and must
be supported by the browser, but it's quicker since the
browser asks for the correct page. You can't do image
maps if your online service doesn't support it, but if
they do it's not difficult.
- Sounds. All you have to do is add a background sound HTML
tag to your page. <BGSound
src="music.mid">. Support varies depending
on the browser. There are other ways to add sounds, but
this is the easiest.
- Video. This is also easy but not supported by many
browsers. Assuming you have or can create an AVI file,
all you need is the normal IMG tag: <IMG
DYNSRC="ANIMATON.AVI" START=FileOpen>. Keep
in mind, AVI files can get very large.
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- Marquee. There is a marquee tag that is easy to use, but
like all the cool stuff can't be seen on every browser.
<MARQUEE BGCOLOR="#000000"
LOOP=INFINITE>Place Marquee Here</MARQUEE>
- Scripts. If you want to venture into a little
programming, you can add a script or two to your web
page. You can use JavaScript or VBScript, with the latter
only supported by Internet Explorer.
- There are also ActiveX Controls and Java Applets. These
require more programming knowledge. But you can buy Java
Applets which you can use in your web page. Inserting
them is easy, it's writing them that's difficult.
The latest version of FrontPage (FrontPage 97) makes it easy
to add all of these cool things without using the HTML commands.
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