CREATING A WEB PAGE
HOW TO BEGIN	TABLES	BACKGROUND	TEXT
SAVING	HYPERLINKS	ADDING GRAPHICS	WEB EXTRAS
HOW TO BEGIN… Open Microsoft WORD and open a NEW document SAVE as a Web Page in your home directory in a new folder called Web Page
TEXT & TABLES Text in arranged on the page in tables From the TABLES drop down menu select insert table Choose a table of 4 columns and 5 rows In Autoformat you can select a Web Table style Click on Autofit to window Select all the cells in the first row of the table From the TABLES drop down menu choose merge cells Enter your title here You can choose a font, size, colour and style to suit OR you can use an animated text from one of the following website 3D Textmaker Flaming Text Now enter your contents headings into the next row of cells in your table Select the next two cells on the left-hand side of your page and merge Add some text into the third row of your table e.g. purpose/introduction to your page Leave the last row free
BACKGROUND You can add a background to your page to create the mood of your topic Backgrounds can be colours, textures or clip art Colour – From the FORMAT menu choose Background and select the colour of your choice Textures – From the FORMAT menu choose Background and select FILL EFFECTS to create texture or patterns Clip Art – Use the clip art available to use a picture as a Background in FILL EFFECTS You can also use backgrounds found on the internet for free e.g. Freebackround Maker Flaming Text Backgrounds
TEXT You can enter text on your page using any font, style or colour DO NOT use more than 3 styles in your web pages Choose your colours and styles carefully to ensure they are legible
SAVING Save your web page frequently into your H drive as an .html file Name your first page “index.html” You can view your completed page by selecting WEB PAGE PREVIEW from the FILE menu
HYPERLINKS Insert hyperlinks on your web page in order to move the viewer to another location e.g. link your contents headings to the actual information You may choose to link to another part of the page, another page or an internet site PART OF THE PAGE First, you need to create the sub-headings and make them HEADINGS from the Style button Highlight the word which you wish to make your hyperlink From the INSERT menu select HYPERLINKS Choose to link to another place in this document Select the appropriate heading and click OK ANOTHER PAGE First, you need to create the new page and save it into your H drive Highlight the word which you wish to make your hyperlink From the INSERT menu select HYPERLINKS Choose to link to the appropriate page in your H drive INTERNET SITE OR you may choose to link to an Internet site Highlight the word which you wish to make your hyperlink From the INSERT menu select HYPERLINKS Choose to link to another webpage Enter the URL for an Internet site
GRAPHICS Use appropriate graphics to highlight the topic of your web page To insert clip art select PICTURE from the INSERT menu You may search for the picture of your choice Click on the INSERT button Move or re-size your picture to suit You may search for appropriate graphics from the Internet using a picture search tool Cool Archive Clip Art Gallery Right-click on the picture and select COPY Return to your web page and PASTE the picture onto your page Don’t forget, because you are presenting your graphics on a web page, they can be animated You can search for animations using Clip Art You can search for animations from the Internet too e.g. Animation Station
BUTTONS/DIVIDERS Use buttons available in clip art to customize your web page Buttons can be used to highlight items in a list Buttons can be used to direct the viewer to another part of the web page Your can create your own buttons using the DRAW program Or you can insert buttons from the internet Dividers allow you to organise your text into paragraph chunks You can insert dividers by using Clip Art Or you can insert dividers from the internet.
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