First Web Page

CREATING YOUR FIRST WEB PAGE: Three METHODS

Method 1: Creating a Web Page using a free template site (Webs, Google)

The following sites are free.  Webs  offers free webpage space and an easy template based way of creating the pages.  If you have a gmail email account with Google, you can create Googlesites - these are much simpler pages but have no ads.

No matter how you build a web page, there are certain design considerations:

Keeping text to a reasonable size looks more professional (larger letters can teand to look childish). Images need to be sized from corners to keep their proper proportions (so they don't look distorted). There are many guides on the Web that can be helpful.

Here are a number of resources that relate to the creation of Web Pages:
Design and Construction Resources - http://astralsite.com/1799/design.html

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Method 2: Using a simple web editor like Sea Monkey:

WARNING! Whatever browser version you use for your web editor - stick with it - you can get lots of problems if you go back and forth between different versions of a web editor.

Download Page - http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

A similar web editor was (until recently) available in Netscape but that browser is no longer supported.  You can however get the idea of how to use a web editor built into a web browser like Sea Monkey by looking at the following:  A Netscape tutorial - Part 1 and Part 2.- http://people.senecac.on.ca/selia.karsten/MRK/Nettutor.html

Front Page  is another option but sometimes has problems with various browsers..

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Method 3: Uing Hypertext markup Language (HTML)
Creating a Web Page by modifying the HTML code of an existing page using a simple Netscape Browser to view the code and Windows NotePad (not WordPad)

HTML Tutorial - http://people.senecac.on.ca/selia.karsten/MRK/HTMLtutorial.html

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