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What This Course Will Do for You
Most courses on HTML teach users how to create web pages for others to enjoy. This course takes a different approach: you will learn how to apply basic HTML to create an offline home page. More than a simple web page, an offline home page is a browser-interfaced, virtual workspace that resides on your personal computer and can only be viewed by you, so you can include all sorts of information you would never share on a public web site such as convenient shortcuts to your favorite online shopping and banking sites. Stop wasting time sifting through hundreds of browser bookmarks you've accumulated. Streamline your daily web chores; add one- click buttons that you can use to instantly log on to Hotmail or Gmail, Yahoo Groups, MySpace, and other popular web sites. 
An offline home page also offers important protection against "phishing" scams by providing dependable and completely authentic links to your online banking, credit card sites, and other sensitive data. At the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and skills needed to create an efficient, private workspace that can be accessed using your browser. Students enrolling in this class must have a working knowledge of basic HTML and web design. The class will not address beginning HTML issues. Students should have completed KSURF's starter course on HTML 1: Web Page Design for Beginners or have equivalent experience.
How to Participate in this Course
Enroll and start learning today! All course materials will be available when you start the class, so you don't have to wait for weekly lessons and you can truly learn at your own pace. You don't have to be online at any set time; study at your leisure from the comfort or your home or office. The course curriculum will include tutorial lessons, suggested readings, and optional homework activities. If you are taking the class for enjoyment or self-enrichment, homework is optional but participation is encouraged. Students who approach online learning as an adventure and actively participate will derive the most benefit and enjoyment from online learning. Homework projects, if completed satisfactorily, will earn Extra Credit points which will be added to your Final Exam score and may increase the overall grade you earn in the course. The Student Handbook provides useful information on how to make the most of your online learning experience at KSURF's Virtual University. Refer to this guide for helpful tips on how to access classrooms, post homework, and answers to most frequently asked questions. |
About the Author/Instructor
Richard De A'Morelli is a network administrator, web designer/programmer, author, and editor. He currently is Webmaster and lead programmer for KSURF Webversity, where he also teaches classes on computer technology, writing, and self-help topics. A published author at age 16, Richard now has more than a dozen books to his credit as well as several hundred feature articles on a variety of subjects. He has served as editor of several nationally distributed magazines and was a by-lined member of the late best-selling author Irving Wallace's editorial staff. Richard has been developing e-courses and teaching online since the 1982 when modem bulletin boards were in vogue. He built one of the first websites when many believed that the Web was a passing fad. Since then, he has written more than twenty courses, including the award-winning Exploring the Internet, which saw more than 350,000 graduates in the early days of the World Wide Web. Before the Internet, Richard had been teaching creative writing and self-help topics in a traditional classroom environment since the 1970s. A prolific coder in Perl, Visual Basic and Javascript, Richard designed the back-end coding for a number of web sites including the original Virtual University and KSURF Knowledge Web. He has written stock analysis programs and developed a collection of widgets. He was awarded the Software Star Search award from Computer Reseller News, an industry trade magazine, for his design work on Digital Professor an innovative touchtone interactive application (well, it was innovative in 1992, before the Web changed everything!) Richard lives with his wife on the scenic California Central Coast, where he spends his time surfing the Web, programming, and writing. His leisure interests include woodworking and local politics. He is active in land use and planning issues affecting the small community he calls home.
Lesson Plan
Syllabus: Getting Started (Course Syllabus)Unit 1: What's an "Offline" Home Page? Why Do You Need One? Unit 2: Designing Your Offline Home Page Unit 3: Adding Images and Backgrounds to Your Page Unit 4: Turbocharge Your Workspace with iFrames! Unit 5: Custom Input Fields for Your Workspace Unit 6: Designing Custom Buttons for One-Click Logins Unit 7: Final Exam |