Website Authoring – Skills Checklist

The list below shows you the skills that you should be comfortable with in terms of
presentation authoring. Work through the list and check off all of the skills you
currently have. Any areas that you have not checked must be revised.

The ‘Where can I find help’ section refers to the Section 15 Self Study Workbook
found on this web page: http://www.ictlounge.com/html/webauthoring.htm

Skill Can I do Where can I find

this? (tick) help?
Opening FrontPage and Downloading Files:
1. Open FrontPage Page 4
2. Create a folder to store web files Page 6
3. Download files from the web Page 7
Style Sheets:
4. Understand the purpose of a style sheet Page 8
5. Create a new style sheet Page 8
6. Set styles for a style sheet (h1, h2, h3, li, p) Page 9 - 11
7. Access HTML code for a style sheet Page 12
8. Save a style sheet (with .css file extension) Page 12 - 13
9. Print style sheet code Page 14 - 15
10. Attach a style sheet to a web page Page 19
11. Remove a style sheet from a web page Page 20
Basic Web Page Skills:
12. Create a new web page Page 16
13. Save a web page (with .htm file extension) Page 16
14. Open an existing web page Page 38
15. Add text to a web page Page 20
16. Insert text from a text file Page 32 - 33
17. Use the contents of one web page in another Page 39
Tables:
18. Insert a table Page 25
19. Format a table (width, border size, colour etc) Page 25 - 26
20. Access table properties Page 26
21. Merge table cells Page 26 - 27
22. Resize table columns and rows Page 28
Images:
23. Insert an image Page 29
24. Resize an image (with/without aspect ratio) Page 30 - 31
HTML Tags:
25. Understand what HTML tags are used for Page 34 - 35
26. Use HTML tags to set styles Page 20 – 22 and
Page 35 - 37
Hyperlinks and Anchors / Bookmarks:
27. Insert hyperlinks to web pages stored on our
Page 42
computer
28. Insert hyperlinks to external web pages Page 44
29. Open external web pages in a new window Page 44 - 45
30. Attaching hyperlinks to images Page 46 - 47
31. Know what anchors / bookmarks are used for Page 48
32. Insert an anchor / bookmark Page 48
33. Use hyperlinks to link to an anchor /
Page 49 - 50
bookmark
34. Using Preview mode to check hyperlinks Page 43
Editing Images in an Image Editor:
35. Open an image in a picture editor (like
Page 51
Microsoft Picture Manager)
36. Use a picture editor to resize image width /
Page 52
height
37. Know the difference between 8 bit colours
Page 53
(GIF) and 32 bit colours (JPG)
38. Export images to either GIF or JPG Page 53
39. Use a picture editor to crop images Page 54
RGB Colour Codes:
40. Understand the use of RGB colour codes Page 57 - 60
41. Be able to set RGB colour codes on style
Page 61 - 62
sheets and web pages (FF, C0, 80, 40, 00)
Printing:
42. Print web pages Page 63
43. Print web page HTML code Page 64
44. Find and highlight specific sections of HTML
Page 65
code

NOTE:
FOR EVEN MORE HELP, YOU SHOULD ALSO TAKE A
LOOK AT THE VIDEOS FOUND ON:

http://www.ictlounge.com/html/webauthoring.htm