A Teen's Guide to Creating Web Pages and Blogs

Designed for implementing while reading, this guide begins with basic step-by-step information about HTML, fonts, images, lists, and tables so that the reader is soon ready to publish her Web page for the world to see. The book's last half introduces more advanced techniques, such as JavaScript, functions, loops, and applications like Flash and Instant Messenger. Perhaps the best chapters are "Meeting and Greeting on the Web" and "Watching Your Back: Cybersafety," which include detailed descriptions and comparisons of MySpace and Facebook, as well as other less popular sites, and practical advice about appropriate posting, identity protection and working with parents. Written by young people, this manual uses the slang and upbeat tone of its intended audience. Readers are often reminded how much fun it is to create a Web page and how exciting it is to see the results. The authors "wanted to provide information for those of you who have grown up with computers, computer games, and the Internet but may never have really explored computer technology." Fundamental principles of creation and design are useful for anyone, however technology competent. Illustrated, with references and a glossary, this attractive paperback has lots of practical content.

The internet has become a new center for expressing oneself. A Teen's Guide to Creating Web Pages and Blogs is a guide for teenagers and parents of teens who want to embrace the internet as their link to the whole world. Focusing on social websites like MySpace and Facebook, the authors seek to give teens advice on creating solid web pages as well as protecting them against the threats one finds on the internet. Written in a style designed to easily be understood by any teenager, A Teen's Guide to Creating Web Pages and Blogs is a good pick for any with teenage children who want to embrace the web.