How To Make A Homepage ?
Internet, a place where people from all over the world meet and get information from others. So you've been wandering the Web for a while now, and you're ready to start contributing to the great flow of information on the Internet. The first thing to do is to learn about HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), the standard language used by Netscape Navigator and other browsers to bring documents to your screen. Next you'll want to learn about adding online forms, graphics, sound, and video to take advantage of the interactive and multimedia capabilities of the Web. And once you understand the basics and start coding pages like mad, you'll want to find some development tools to make your work easier.
The first step before you start making your homepage is to get a place in the Web. You can get free spaces for your homepage from Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, and many other servers by visiting their homepages. After getting spaces in the Web, you'll need softwares which will helps you to make your homepage more vulnerable. Softwares like HTML editors will guide you if you're not too familiar with it. You can also get ETP (File Transfer Protocol) programmes which will help you to send the files to your homepage server. You can even get graphics, sounds and videos from the web. This will lighten up the person that visited your page. They'll be waiting to wait for your page to load while listening to the music you're put on.
Secondly, you'll need to organize your ideas and content. You can make a page on your favourite actor or actress, soccer player and team, and even link pages to this places. The most important thing about your homepage is to make it as user friendly as possible. People will be crowding to visit your page.
Now, to start working with your page. Every HTML document should contain certain standard HTML tags. Each document consists of head and body text. The head contains the title, and the body contains the actual text that is made up of paragraphs, list and other elements. Browsers expect specific information because they are programmed according to HTML and SGML specifications.
Required elements are shown in this sample bare-bones document:
<html>
<head>
<TITLE>A Simple HTML Example</TITLE>
</head>
<Body>
<H1>HTML is Easy To Learn</H1>
<P>Welcome to the world of HTML.
This is the first paragraph. While short it is still a paragraph !<P>
<P>And this is the second paragraph </P>
</body>
</html>
The required elements are the <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> tags (and their corresponding end tags). Because you should include these tags in each file, you might want to create a template file with them. (Some browsers will format your HTML file correctly even if these tags are not included. But some browsers won't ! So make sure to include them.)
HTML
This element tells your browser that the file contains HTML-coded information. The file extension HTML also indicates this an HTML document and must be used. (If you are restricted to 8.3 filenames eg. LeeHomme.htm, use only .htm for your extension.)
HEAD
The head element identifies the first part your HTML-coded document that contains the title. The title is shown as part of your browser's window (see below).
TITLE
The title element contains your document title and identifies its content in a global context. The title is displayed somewhere on the browser window (usually at the top), but not within the text area. The titles is also what is displayed on someone's hotlist or bookmark list, so choose something descriptive, unique, and relative short. A title is also used during a WAIS search of a server.
BODY
The second and largest part of your HTML document is the body, which contains the content of your document (displayed within the text area of your browser window). The tags explained below are used within the body of your HTML document.
Headings
HTML has six levels of headings, numbered 1 through 6, with 1 being the most prominent. Headings are displayed in larger and/or bolder fonts than normal body text. The first heading in each document should be tagged <H1>
The syntax of the heading elements is:
<Hy>Text of heading</Hy>
where y is a number between 1 and 6 specifying the level of the heading.
Do not skip levels of headings in your document. For example, don't start with a level-one heading (<H1>) and then next use a level-three (<H3>) heading.
Paragraphs
Unlike documents in most word processors, carriage returns in HTML files aren't significant. So you don't have to worry about how long your lines of text are (better to have them fewer than 72 characters long though). Word wrapping can occur at any point in your source file, and multiple spaces are collapsed into a single space by your browser.
In the bare-bones example shown in the Minimal HTML Document section, the first paragraph is coded as
<P>Welcome to the world of HTML
This is the first paragraph.
While short it is
still a paragraph ! </P>
In the source file there is a line break between the sentences. A Web browser ignores this line break and starts a new paragraph only when it encounters another <P> tag.
Last of all, to post your homepage to web. You can use FTP programs to do so. Your homepage server will tell you which site of FTP you should send to and you'll have to rename all your files according to what the server wants you to name. That's all for a basic guide of making a simple homepage. Good luck !
JT 5S1
The first step before you start making your homepage is to get a place in the Web. You can get free spaces for your homepage from Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, and many other servers by visiting their homepages. After getting spaces in the Web, you'll need softwares which will helps you to make your homepage more vulnerable. Softwares like HTML editors will guide you if you're not too familiar with it. You can also get ETP (File Transfer Protocol) programmes which will help you to send the files to your homepage server. You can even get graphics, sounds and videos from the web. This will lighten up the person that visited your page. They'll be waiting to wait for your page to load while listening to the music you're put on.
Secondly, you'll need to organize your ideas and content. You can make a page on your favourite actor or actress, soccer player and team, and even link pages to this places. The most important thing about your homepage is to make it as user friendly as possible. People will be crowding to visit your page.
Now, to start working with your page. Every HTML document should contain certain standard HTML tags. Each document consists of head and body text. The head contains the title, and the body contains the actual text that is made up of paragraphs, list and other elements. Browsers expect specific information because they are programmed according to HTML and SGML specifications.
Required elements are shown in this sample bare-bones document:
<html>
<head>
<TITLE>A Simple HTML Example</TITLE>
</head>
<Body>
<H1>HTML is Easy To Learn</H1>
<P>Welcome to the world of HTML.
This is the first paragraph. While short it is still a paragraph !<P>
<P>And this is the second paragraph </P>
</body>
</html>
The required elements are the <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> tags (and their corresponding end tags). Because you should include these tags in each file, you might want to create a template file with them. (Some browsers will format your HTML file correctly even if these tags are not included. But some browsers won't ! So make sure to include them.)
HTML
This element tells your browser that the file contains HTML-coded information. The file extension HTML also indicates this an HTML document and must be used. (If you are restricted to 8.3 filenames eg. LeeHomme.htm, use only .htm for your extension.)
HEAD
The head element identifies the first part your HTML-coded document that contains the title. The title is shown as part of your browser's window (see below).
TITLE
The title element contains your document title and identifies its content in a global context. The title is displayed somewhere on the browser window (usually at the top), but not within the text area. The titles is also what is displayed on someone's hotlist or bookmark list, so choose something descriptive, unique, and relative short. A title is also used during a WAIS search of a server.
BODY
The second and largest part of your HTML document is the body, which contains the content of your document (displayed within the text area of your browser window). The tags explained below are used within the body of your HTML document.
Headings
HTML has six levels of headings, numbered 1 through 6, with 1 being the most prominent. Headings are displayed in larger and/or bolder fonts than normal body text. The first heading in each document should be tagged <H1>
The syntax of the heading elements is:
<Hy>Text of heading</Hy>
where y is a number between 1 and 6 specifying the level of the heading.
Do not skip levels of headings in your document. For example, don't start with a level-one heading (<H1>) and then next use a level-three (<H3>) heading.
Paragraphs
Unlike documents in most word processors, carriage returns in HTML files aren't significant. So you don't have to worry about how long your lines of text are (better to have them fewer than 72 characters long though). Word wrapping can occur at any point in your source file, and multiple spaces are collapsed into a single space by your browser.
In the bare-bones example shown in the Minimal HTML Document section, the first paragraph is coded as
<P>Welcome to the world of HTML
This is the first paragraph.
While short it is
still a paragraph ! </P>
In the source file there is a line break between the sentences. A Web browser ignores this line break and starts a new paragraph only when it encounters another <P> tag.
Last of all, to post your homepage to web. You can use FTP programs to do so. Your homepage server will tell you which site of FTP you should send to and you'll have to rename all your files according to what the server wants you to name. That's all for a basic guide of making a simple homepage. Good luck !
JT 5S1
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