Technical Tutorials

Participation in ThinkQuest New York City requires "uploading" the "web site" your team creates. "Uploading" involves tranferring or copying the files that make up your web site. FTP is the protocol we use to transfer files to the ThinkQuest New York City server, where the whole world can see your work.

Most of these tutorials relate to TQNYC and how to upload. If you are looking for tutorials on how to create web pages check out our list of Web Resources. A very good place to start is http://www.w3schools.com/.

General Information

• Server Accounts - containing information on the web server accounts that approved teams receive.

Uploading Tutorials

• The ThinkQuest New York City File Manager
• General Uploading Information
• Uploading using WS_FTP^® on a Windows^® based computer.
• Uploading using Fetch^® on a Macintosh^®
• Setting up Dreamweaver Site Manager
• Uploading using Netscape^® Composer
• Uploading using Adobe GoLive^®

Web Site Creation

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML Editors

• Dreamweaver Tutorial will give you a quick how-to use Dreamweaver.
• Dreamweaver Table Tutorial will give you a quick how-to use Dreamweaver to create tables and layout your pages.
• Nvu Web Editor Tutorial the next generation of Netscape Composer and it is free!
• FrontPage^® Tutorial for using this Web page creation software with ThinkQuest New York City.
• Create tables in FrontPage^® Learn how to add interesting layouts to your web pages using FrontPage.
• Photoshop Tutorial teaches you how to use this graphic editor to create original art and functional buttons for your web site.
• Fireworks MX Tutorial teaches you how to use this graphic tool to create buttons for your web site.
• Netscape^® Composer Tutorial for using this Web page creation software with ThinkQuest New York City.

Multimedia

• How to add audio to your site
• How to add video to your site

TQNYC Development Tools

• Dev Tool Tutorials Everything you need to know to implement advanced web applications as easy as adding a link to your page.
• Dev Tool Tutorials as a 9MB PDF.

Advanced Web Development

• Basic HTML is a brief listing of HTML tags and some helpful information about how the language of web pages (HTML) works.
• Meta Tags are used to help search engines index your pages. Read thsi brief tutorial to understand their concept.
• Three Tier Applications is a web development architecture that incorporates HTML, PHP and MySQL into complex interactive web sites.
• PHP Programming is a tutorial that explains some basic programming techniques and how to use PHP to build interactive web sites. This tutorial also shows how PHP can connect to a MySQL database and output HTML pages with the data from the database.

External HTML Tutorials

• http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
• http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.e du/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html
• http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/