CREATING A WEB PAGE MICROSOFT WORD TEXT Text can be entered much as in a word processing program

CREATING A WEB PAGE MICROSOFT WORD

TEXT

Text can be entered much as in a word processing program. The text can be sized, fonts and color can be changed and several formats can be chosen. Use the tool bar at the top of the screen or go to the Format menu option.

BACKGROUNDS

Backgrounds can be selected by using the Format menu option and then selecting Background where a color chart appears or More Colors or Fill Effects for existing choices or choose the Other Texture option to import external background images.

IMAGES AND ANIMATED GIFS

Images and Animated GIFs can be inserted by either choosing the Insert Picture option on the tool bar or by choosing the Insert and then Picture option from the menu. Images and Animated GIFs can be chosen from Clip Art or From File... where previously saved Internet images, Digital camera images or Scanned images are saved. All image files must be saved and maintained on your disk along with your web page files. These images must not be deleted from your disk if they are being used on your web page.

HORIZONTAL RULE

The horizontal line option is under the Format Menu in the Borders and Shading folder. Choose Horizontal Line.

TABLES

Tables can be created by using the Insert Table option from the tool bar or from the Table menu option where Insert table is chosen. Once chosen, the table dimensions can be selected. Once a Table is on the page, editing the table such as changing rows and columns, deleting tables or rows or columns, or other Table changes can be accomplished by using the Right Mouse Button as the mouse is pointing to the table. Tables can be visible or transparent (Hide Gridlines) and are used to help format location of text and images on the page. Spaces are not recognized in HTML so as a result you are limited to Alignments of left, center or right and the use of transparent tables.

HYPERLINKS

Hyperlinks are use to link web pages to other web sites (External) or to link one web page file to another web page file (Internal) or link from one position on a page to another position on a page (Anchor) or link to an e-mail page. To create a link, either choose the Insert Hyperlink option on the tool bar or use the Hyperlink option from the menu bar under Insert. Once the Link option is chosen, enter the complete web site address or the file name or if the web site was previously copied use "Ctrl V" to paste the address. To activate the link, the file must be saved and the Web Page Preview option from the tool bar must be selected.

Explore the following sites to become better acquainted with the characteristics of a good web site:

HOW TO CREATE A WEB PAGE

http://nsccbio.sccd.ctc.edu/cauldwell/readings/webprep.html

A GUIDE TO CREATING A SUCCESSFUL WEB SITE

http://www.hooked.net/~larrylin/web.htm

THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO CREATING A WEB PAGE

http://www.voyager.co.nz/~bsimpson/html.htm

RESOURCE BOOKS:

The Non-Designers Design Book by Robin Williams. ISBN#1566091594

Web Pages that Suck by Vincent Flanders, Michael Willis. ISBN#078212187x

Creating Killer Web Sites by David Siegel. ISBN:1-56830-433-1

HTML 4 for the WWW by Elizabeth Castro. ISBN:0-201-69696-7

HTML 4.0 Sourcebook by Ian S. Graham. ISBN: 0-471-25724-9

CyberLAW: the Law of the Internet by Jon Rosenoer. ISBN: 0-387-94832-5

ACTIVITY (EXTRA CREDIT) : Explore the following sites to become acquainted with the
fundamentals of HTML.

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO HTML

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html

HTML RESOURCES

http://www.hwg.org/resources/html

INTRODUCTION TO HTML

http://www.gettingstarted.net/basics/whatis/toc-html.html