Step-by-Step Web Design Instructions

I. How do we create hypertext files using Microsoft Word?

1.Click Start-> Go to Program to open Microsoft Word-> Type "Welcome to My Home Page"-> Go to File   and Save as html document.

*All documents in the World Wide Web are written in html language. Click View to view the source and you will see the codes, but we do not have to write those codes anymore to create our html files.

2.To add a line: click Insert; add Horizontal Lines; Choose one and click OK.

3. To add a background color: Go to Format, and click Background to choose a color for the background of your page.

4. To create a hyperlink: Go to Insert and click Hyperlink. Next to the box for making "Link to file or URL", click Browse and choose the file you want to make a link to. Click OK. Now the hypertext will change into another color( the default color is blue).

5. View a template of Homepage.

II. If your school use Netscape as the browser to get into the Internet, and you cannot use Microsoft Word to save the html documents(this is the case in my room) , how can we still create the html files?

1.Open Netscape. Click Communicator, then open Page Composer. (By now you should have a "steering wheel" icon and "pen" icon at the bottom of your screen. If you see both icons, you are ready to go.)

2.Write on Page Composer the same way you write on a Word Document. Save the file using File, Save As.

3.To add a line: click the line icon at the Tool Bar.

4.To add a background color: Click Format, Background to choose the color you like.

5.To add an image: Click Insert, Image. Click Choose File to choose an image file from your files  you would like to add to your page.(A page should not have too many images because they could take a long time to appear on the screen-to be uploaded , or they distract people's attention from the contents of your page. Since your web viewers can not see you, sometimes images define who you are. In the beginning, we should pay more attention to the content. And in the future, when you are more skillful you may do search in the Web and find the right images to represent yourself.)

6.To make a hyper link: Click Insert ; Click Browse to choose the file you would like to make the link to; click O.K.; Save. You will not see hyper links work on the Page Composer, but after you upload the files into Angelfire.com, the links will work.