Task 3: Creating a Webpage HTML and WYSIWYG EDITING

Today most people are online.  The internet is revolutionary and allows ordinary people to publish their thoughts and opinions online.  Initially, the internet was just for the elite, powerful, and rich.  Now a person does not have to be a big shot to have a webpage. Most people work with the internet in their jobs and at home.  Authoring a webpage is different from using the internet to seek out information.  There are a few tips for people who have never done so.  Creating a webpage gives a person hands on experience learning the programming language. There are programs that can teach a person to make a webpage but sometimes trial and error is the best way to learn and understand the process.  If a person opens his or her browser, selects view and source he or she will reveal the original programming code, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which lies beneath each webpage.  This plain text is fashioned into rich text with color, spatial arrangements, images and varying font size displayed on the webpage.  HTML uses a variety codes that directs different commands.  There are two ways to write an HTML routine to build a person’s webpage. The first way is to create manually a code line by line. The second is to use software.  Knowing how to write HTML might be beneficial but there is software-utilizing WYSIWYG (an acronym for what you see is what you get) technology, which writes all the HTML code for a webpage making the process much easier.  Some of the software can be expensive but Netscape’s Composer is a less sophisticated editor that is free.  The next part is to design the webpage.  Font size, background color, images, and layout are all important things to consider when creating a webpage that other people are going to look at. Publishing the webpage is the final step.  There are several ways to make sure it becomes a proper page on the World Wide Web.  Depending on the institution, a student might upload his or her homepage on the main server.  It is also possible that a person’s internet server at home has space for uploads or a person can pay a small fee to have a commercial site host your webpage.  There are many options for first time webpage creators.