Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002
Subject: Making A Web Site. 1. Page 1
From: "Doug Schwab" <[email protected]>
To: "Tony Hall"  <[email protected]>

Hi Tony

This is my re-working of your general series of lessons on 'Making A Web Site'. This is the first of three lessons on making a web site.

Introduction
You will know how to type enough to send emails, but you find that sometimes you need to send email to alot of people at once. This is the time to start thinking about your own web page. This page will have information that will be of interest to a number of people in your life.

The first lesson is to convert a page of text, say an email you have saved, to ‘html’ so that it can be read by the web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer). Then we will test viewing the page on the browser and then try a second page. The second lesson will be to take some pre- written text, called ‘html code’ and view our pages on the browser as a multi-page document. The Third lesson is to create a new free web site on Yahoo Geocities and put our work there to check that it works.

Follow the step by step approach below. If you find that something does not work, check previous steps for accuracy. If you find the instruction vague, or not working email me.


Making a Web Page using AppleWorks
To make a web page we will use the application (program) Appleworks for the Apple Macintosh computer. We will then use the program to convert our work to the ‘.htm’ format that can be read by a web browser, and finally, we will check that our page works by using the browser to view our page.

1) Do you have a text only document you can use? If you do follow he steps to create your first web page. If you do not have a text only document you can use this one. Open an AppleWorks text onlydocument.

2) We need to change the fonts to ones that work on the web, so select all using the Apple- A keys or picking ‘Select All from the ‘Edit’ menu in Appleworks. Now we can make any actions effect all the text. Choose ‘Verdana’ from the font pull down menu or from the ‘Font’ Menu. Verdana works well on the internet.

3) Save your work. We are going to now change this Appleworks document to an HTML page for view on web browsers. Create a folder called ‘Website’ on the desktop.

4) Go back to your document and select ‘Save As’ from the ‘File’ menu. Don’t click ‘Save’ yet. We need to change the document type from ‘Appleworks’ to’HTML’. Use the pull down menu at the bottom to do this, then find your desktop folder called ‘Web page’ and save your page there with the name ’page1.htm’. You now have a web ready document.

5) We want to check our work so open either ‘Netscape’ or ‘Internet Explorer’ browser. Open either program and check that ‘work offline’ is selected under the file menu. This ensures that the browser will not try and connect to the web.

6) Select ‘Open’ from the ‘File’ menu and open the ‘page1.htm’ document you created from the 'Website' folder on the desktop. It should be viewable. If not email me. As an alternative you can drag the page icon from the folder ‘Website’ over the open page.

7) Try producing another document, to do this, repeat the steps used above but name the saved Appleworks HTML document as ‘page2.htm’ in the desktop folder you named ‘Website’.

In this lesson you have created two pages that can be viewed on the internet using standard web browsers, Netscape and Internet Explorer. Making a page can be fun, so why not try converting some other text-only pages to html. You can save them to another folder as we will be using your new ‘Website’ folder on the desktop for our next lesson, making multiple page documents on the internet. Your pages will not be alone. With the next lesson you will be able to jump between each page, or more!