Making a Classroom Web Page with Word
Thanks to Dr. Bonnie Drumwright for the PC directions
Did you realize that creating webpages is not much harder than creating
Word documents? Contrary to what you may believe, you do not need
to know HTML, (Hyper Text Markup Language) to create webpages that are
interesting, attractive and informative.
In these lessons, you will learn the basic skills to get started on the
road to web site development. Specifically, you will learn how to
do the following:
- create a folder for your web site
- create and save a webpage
- add and format text on a webpage
- create links between your pages and other web sites (URLs)
- insert images
- create tables
- upload your web site (optional)
Words for the Wise
We decided to use MS Word for this activity because we knew it was readily
available to most of you. If you are familiar with Word functions,
these lessons will be easy for you. Word is not the best software
for creating webpages. However, it is a good place to start because the
skills you learn are applicable to more sophisticated web authoring programs
such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver. If you want to learn how to use
either of these programs, we have included links to sites with FrontPage
and Dreamweaver tutorials. Florida
Gulf Coast University offers tutorials for FrontPage as well as other
MS programs. The Dreamweaver
tutorial was created by Bruce McVicker.
Creating a folder for your web site: PC directions
For Mac directions, click here.
The first thing we need to do is create a folder on the computer's hard
drive for our web site. This folder will contain every page and
image for our web site. When we are ready to “upload”
our site to the web server, we will have all of the information for the
site in this folder.
We are going to create a folder in the My Documents area of the
computer to store your web site. The My Documents icon is
on the left side of the monitor and it looks like a file folder.
This area of your hard drive is a good place to store the various files
you create on your computer and folders help you keep organized.
If you double click (using the left mouse button) on the My Documents
icon, a window will open like the one below. Notice that I created
a folder called myweb in the My Documents area on my computer.
Once the window is open, we are ready to create a folder for our web site. To create a folder, right click once anywhere in the My Documents area of the screen. This will open a dialog box where you will click New and Folder. I gave my folder the name myweb because I thought I would remember that I keep the pages for my class web site here.
To name the folder, right click on the New Folder
icon and click Rename. As you will see, the name area of
the New Folder icon is highlighted so you can simply type in a
name for your folder. Remember, the name should contain no capitol
letters or spaces.
Try it, you’ll like it!
Lets try what you just learned: double click on the My Documents
folder. Create a folder and give it a simple title using no capitol
letters or spaces. I suggest you use your name in the title.
Finished?