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Its seems that many businesses and even some individuals are putting their own WEB SITES up on the World Wide Web (WWW), which we learned last month, is part of the Internet.
I have been asked, more then once, what is a WEB SITE and a WEB PAGE. A web page consists of elements defined in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) that are used to create a WEB PAGE. Some of these elements include: headings, paragraphs, horizontal rules, lists, images, backgrounds, targets, links, special characters, tables and frames. That is a mouthful……what does all this mean in simple everyday language?
Think of a WEB SITE as a cover and pages in a book. A book cover is what is seen FIRST. The book cover is called the HOME PAGE. The individual pages in the book are call WEB PAGES. The collection of the HOME PAGE and all the WEB PAGES is called the WEB SITE.
If you visit the Lions District 5M1 website at http://www.lions5m1.org, you will see a list of Web Pages on the LEFT HAND side of the page. This list is like the TABLE OF CONTENTS in a book. You will find a word or two describing some web PAGE that is part of this web SITE. You might think of these HYPERLINKS the chapter titles in a book. If you click on these HYPERLINKS, you will be taken immediately to that “chapter in the book”.
This FEATURE of being able to instantly take you from one location to another location, somewhere on the Internet, is what makes the Internet such a powerful tool. These “chapters” can be in the same website as the homepage, OR then could be located on a computer thousands (1000’s) of miles from the homepage.
There are three ways to create Web Pages.
- You can use an HTML editor to create a Web page by working directly with the hypertext markup language (HTML) , in which ALL web pages are encoded. A very common editor used is WORDPAD. To use this method, you need to have a good understanding of HTML and the various HTML tags that produce the web page.
- You can use a what-you –see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor to create Web pages through a graphical user interface (GUI). An example of this would be Windows 95 or 98 operating system. You enter text and graphics directly onto the screen exactly as you want them to appear on the WEB PAGE. As you create the screen, the WYSIWYG editor automatically generates the HTML codes that make the Web page.
- You could also use a CONVERTER. If you have a MS-WORD and can type a letter, you can make a Web page. When you SAVE the letter, save the document as an HTML document, rather then a text document. The converter (WORD) will change your text to HTML code, which you can put on the WWW as a Web page. This is a method that I show my students when they make their first Web page.
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