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TEXT FILE It is A TEXT FILE full of hints for your internet browser. TAGS ○ Those hints are called “TAGS” ○ “TAGS” tell your browser how to make your web page look. ○ Where it should place an image, text, a link to another document, etc.

 While you are working on webpage, you can save it on your computer, it does NOT have to be published on the WWW. “server”  If you want your page to be available online, it will have to be uploaded to the remote computer called a “server”

 Notepad  NVU  ADOBE Dreamweaver MX  Hotdog Professional  Microsoft Word 2007  Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

“index.html” 1. The start page should be called “index.html” 2. Following pages may have almost any name Some restrictions apply: *.html *.htm The filename should have a *.html or *.htm extension Recommendation – File name should not contain spaces and special characters

1. Click “Save as” in file menu 2. Change the file type from *.txt to “All files” “K: drive”“public_html”.  The best place to save the file is a folder in your “K: drive” called “public_html”. open to public cannot delete  This folder is open to public. People from all over the world can read files in it but they cannot delete them.  “K drive” “admiral.umsl.edu”.  “K drive” is nothing else but a storing space on the remote computer called “admiral.umsl.edu”.

 The address for your webpage is : “public_html” “index.html”  This link is an internet address for your “public_html” folder. According to the rules, the first file is named “index.html” “public_html”  If you have such file in your “public_html” folder it will show up in your browser window

 HyperText – text containing links to other texts  Markup Language – defines hints/Tags for the browser. Tags are only visible for the browser. The Browser interprets the Tags The result shows up in the Browser Window.

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Menus Properties panel Toolbars

 Design view  Code View  Code And design view (split) You can switch back and forth between them using these 3 buttons

Modify/Page Properties Path: from the top menu choose Modify/Page Properties

 You can make it bold, Italic  Change color  Size  Font type  Center text  Create a link Create a link

 You can find html reference books in the following computer labs SSB 103 TJ 316 Ward E. Barnes  Of course there is a lot of help online too:

Questions? If any further questions arise, please contact a lab consultant in any of the following Instructional Computing Labs. SSB 103 SSB 452 Math TLC (UC 050) Ward E. Barnes Library Thomas Jefferson Research Commons

 The Microcomputer Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis offers day and evening computer courses as part of the Chancellor's Certificate series.  Microsoft E-Learning Library has tutorials on many MS Office products available to all UMSL students and staff  The Online Student Technology Guide has answers to many computing questions.