Transcript Creating and Publishing Web Pages

What is a Web Page?
 Web pages are a combination of text and graphics,
wrapped in a special “markup” language.
 The markup language (Hypertext Markup Language –
HTML) is used to tell a browser how to display the
page.
Example Web Page
How it looks in your browser
The “source code” of the
same web page. This is
what the browser uses to
display the page to the left
Building a Web Page
 Three ways to build a web page
1. Use a text editor such as Notepad and write the HTML
yourself
2. Use MS Word and save your file as a web page
3. Use a specialized web page editor, e.g.:
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Nvu
Expression Web
Recommended Way
 Use a special web page editor
 Has features to make editing of web pages easier
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Works like a word processor, but places HTML code/tags
“under the covers” so you do not have to work with them
directly
 Generates relatively “clean” HTML code
 Choice of tools
 Nvu: relatively easy to use, available for free
 MS Expression Web: more robust, also available free
Publishing Your Web Page
 Your web page must be placed on a web server for it to
be accessible to others
 Typically, this means your HTML files will have to be
uploaded
 Your web pages should have a file suffix of either .htm
or .html
 Once you have uploaded your web page to a file server,
it will have a URL (web address)
Publishing Your Page
 College of Business provides a web server for student
web pages
 This is the same web server you will use in BA 302 to
publish your electronic portfolio
 Explanation of how to do this is in other links/tutorials