Web page construction

Just when you've gotten yourself an Internet provider, become comfortable with e-mail, and begun to explore the World Wide Web (WWW), you hear there are more new things to learn and change: you need a web site. You know your personal and professional status as an aware and current person will suffer without a home page; but learning another "computer" thing seems an overwhelming task. [Top]

We'll let you in on an open secret; making a home page is easy. Basic web construction is just a matter of putting together a text file and adding a few tags. [Top]

More and more people are building Web pages with content ranging from personal information in scrolling text to complex interactive multimedia worlds. You probably think you are too busy to learn how to design and build a Web site. You'd be surprised, however, how easy it is to put together a few simple pages and make information you view as important and shareable—available to everyone. [Top]

So what exactly is a Web page? It's an HTML document, with the extension .htm on Windows computers (.html everywhere else). But what's an HTML document? It's really just a plain text document with special "tags," each of which starts and ends with angle brackets. Look at an HTML file and you'll be surprised {<b>surprised</b>} at how easy it is to read. [Top]