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Now that you have your SWEB account, we will shift our focus to actually
creating a web page. You'll be building your page using HTML, which stands
for HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a not a computer code, it is a
language, made with ordinary text and commands which you type. There's
no compiling or any other aspects that are associated with computer coding
languages, such as C++.
The best part about HTML is
that you can see the exact language of each web page that you visit.
If you see a web design you like, its fairly
easy to look at the original language to see how it was done. If you
use a Netscape browser, simply go up to "View" and select "Page
Source." For those steadfast Internet Explorer users, go to "View"
and "Source." This is called, as you might imagine, looking
at a page's source. So, try it out now and you will be able to see the
source code from which this page was built.
Do not be intimidated by the way the source looks; that's usually the
first wrong step by newbies. In order to provide the most comfortable
assistance, its better to go through a few tutorials and experience web
page desing for yourself. The best resources for instruction in the basics
of creating your page in HTML are listed below:
If you chose to create your site by writing in pure HTML, then you need
nothing other than Windows Notepad or another plain text editing program.
However, if you'd rather create your site using a graphical interface (a
WYSIWYG editor, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get), there are many programs out
there that you can use, including Macromedia Dreamweaver, Netscape Composer
(which comes bundled with Netscape Communicator),
Microsoft Frontpage, or a host of other programs, some of which are shareware.
To look for a shareware version of a WYSIWYG editor, click here
to go to Download.com.
A quick guideline to remember in your html coding is that you always want
to make all of your extensions lower case, such as .jpg, .gif, or .html.
The SWEB server is case-sensitive, so it's a good idea to give all of your
files lowercase extensions from the start. That way, you won't get mixed
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Introduction