Creating Web Sites with QuarkXPress 5

If you are a veteran QuarkXPress user (or if you are someone with desktop publishingexperience using PageMaker, InDesign or FrameMaker), you are no stranger to creating a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) layout and then printing. The size of the document you have doubtless created was limited only by the software and printer you used. The complexity of the page was limited only by your imagination and talent as a desktop publisher.
But Web documents are different. You might have a spectacular layout (such as your annual report) that you printed to rave reviews. Now you want to create a Web page out of the annual report. It is really a simple process to convert the layout to a Web page in all of the major desktop publishing applications. Unfortunately, the Web page you end up with may have little resemblance to the original annual report when viewed through a browser. The reason? Browsers have a limited ability to show complex layouts. There are no margins on the Web, and there is no set page size. What was over here when created in the desktop publishing program, may now be over there when converted to a Web page. Ouch!

QuarkXPress 5 has some of the best HTML features seen in any desktop publishing program. You will learn during the course of this book that pages—even complex pages—can be created as Web pages and maintain your complex design elements.

Here is what you will learn in just one day:

HTML Overview and Basic Structure
Site Management
Create an HTML File in NotePad or SimpleText
Add a Page Title
Insert Headings
Add Paragraph Tags
Work with Physical Text Styles
Work with Logical Text Styles
Work with Block Quotes
Create a Web Document
Change Page Properties
Export as HTML
Change Page Color
Change Page Width
Add a Background Image
Format Text in QuarkXPress
View Source Code
Create and Apply Style Sheets
Edit a Style
Set Master Page Properties
Duplicate a Master Page
Apply a Master Page
Create a Web Site
Create Anchors
Hyperlink Text
Hyperlink Graphics
Change Link Colors
Add Alternative Text to a Graphic
Create an Image Map
Convert a Text Box to a Graphic
Create a Rollover
Create Meta tags
Create Forms
Add a CGI Script and Hidden Fields to a Form
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