Creating a web page
Now, you are ready to create your first page! First, open Word by finding the icon on the monitor and double clicking on it or by clicking Start, Programs, and Word. Word opens with a New Document ready to use.
We will immediately save this new document as a web page by doing the following: click on File and Save as Web page. This is another crucial step – make sure you select Save as Web page.
We want our new page in the web site folder, so you need to save it in your folder now. This means that you need to “navigate” to that folder and open it. To navigate to the folder, click on the Save in drop down menu at the top of the Save as dialogue box and find your folder in My Documents. Click on the freudweb folder to open it. Your folder should now appear in the Save in menu.
I already have files in the freudweb folder as you can see. Never delete any files from this folder because Word creates files containing necessary directions for the computer and you will wonder ‘where did that file come from’? Whatever you do, don’t delete these files because your pages will not open correctly on the Internet if you remove the files.
Now, we are ready to give your web page a name. This is another important point: the first page of your web site needs to be given the simple name “index”. If you fail to do this, your web site will not open when you upload it to the server.
Type the word “index” in the file name box. Remember, file names should contain no capital letters or spaces.
Before you click save, click on the “Change Title” button above the File name dialogue box. This will open a window that allows you to give your web page a title.
This is the title that will appear in the browser so you can give it a descriptive name if you wish. You could title the page “Index” or Home page or Table of Contents. I used Index just to keep it simple. Type your title in the Page title box and select OK.
You just created your first web page! Any additional pages in your web site will be created just like you created this page. They will all be saved as web pages in your folder and should always contain no capital letters or spaces. The exception to this rule is your title for the page; as indicated above, the title can have capital letters and spaces.
Give it a try
In the next 5 minutes, complete the activity described above – open Word, click File and Save as Web page, name the file “index” and save it in the web site folder you created in My Documents.
Finished?
Now, you are ready to continue to the next page where you will learn to add and format text.
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