The Beginning… How to do a WEB Page
First,
we need to practice a few skills that you will need with Windows.
Windows
is based on a desktop metaphor. You can
open individual Windows that enable you to run more than one program at a
time. The rectangular screen that
encloses your program is called a Window.
There are 3 squares in the upper right hand corner in Win 95 or 98. The X can close your program or shut
it down. The Double Squares are
used to move from full screen to a smaller size that you can regulate by
clicking and holding with the left mouse button. The Underscore minimizes the program. When a file is open in a program, there is
another X in the upper right hand corner below the ones we just
discussed. This can be used to close a
file within the program you are using.
The
advantage to opening more than one window at a time, is that you can move from
one program to the other without having to open and reload each time.
In
writing Web Pages, we will open Notepad and Netscape at the same time. We will use the middle button (Double
Squares) so that we can make the two windows about the same size, and place
them side by side or one over the other, depending on what you like
best.
Procedure:
Double
click on the Notepad icon. When the
program opens, click on the Double Squares if necessary and size the
window. Move it to the right side of
your screen. You can move any window by
clicking on the blue bar at the top of the screen and move while holding down
the left mouse button.
Double
click on the Netscape icon. When the
program opens, click on the Double Squares if necessary and size the
Window. Move it to the left side of
your screen.
When
you open Notepad, it is set to work on
Text files. In the picture below, note
the down triangle next to the mouse pointer.
You will always have to click on the down triangle and change it to all
files to work with HTML documents and regular files.
If
you do not change it, you will see only text files and be able to create only
text files. The files you create for
the web need to be saved as .html files or .htm files. Any pictures will be saved as .gif or
.jpg. Other picture files can be
converted for use on your pages.
Writing your first WEB Page
On
a blank Notepad screen, type <HTML> at the top enter several times and type </HTML>
to end the first page. This is used to
tell the web browser software that it is an HTML document. Next, type below the <HTML> the
command <BODY>. Just above
the </HTML>, type </BODY>.
All of the pictures, text, sounds files, links, etc. make up the body of
the page.
Now
we will put on a heading. This is the
large print that we can use to welcome people to our web page. The heading command is <H1> to
start the text and </H1> to stop it. Type the command <H1> just below the body
command. The type in “Welcome to
_______’s Web Page!!!! </H1>
Now
we are ready to start viewing our page.
Use the Save As command under the file menu, and save this file
as firstpage.html. Be sure to check that All Files is listed at the
bottom not Text files.
Now
we are going to view the page using Netscape.
On the Netscape window, go to File, Open Page, find the Choose File
button and navigate to the location of the file that you just created. It may be on the A drive or in My
Documents. When you find
firstpage.html, highlight it and click open to load it into the browser.
