Presented by Trisha Cummings

Why Have a Web Page?  To become known WorldWide  Advertise and sell things  Publish a Fanzine  Support a cause  Share knowlwdge  Promote a country

 Great way to tell the world about you  Your family  Your hobbies  Your family reunion  Your graduation  Your wedding  Your new baby  Memory page for your beloved departed

 Provide information about your products  Provide information about your services  Provide information about your company  Have customers place orders  Have customers pay their bills  Find out your customers opinions and preferences to improve your website, your services and your products as well as expand your market

 Have a fan site about your  favorite show  favorite actor  favorite singer  Sports star  Music group

 Use a web site to explain about your beliefs and goals  Charities  Political parties  Religious organizations  Private organizations  Details of campaignes  Where to send donations  What you can donate  How you can help

 Can be built by  Individuals  Researchers  Students  Specialist  Can cover any kind of knowledge or interest  Recipes  Medical advice  Academic articles  Post research

 Tell users about your government agencies  Tell users about the people in office  Tell users what tourist sites you have  Include where to stay  What to see  Where to go to get help  For legal issues  For health issues

 Content  Layout  Enter your information  Save your page

 Before you start building you need to plan it carefully  Decide the content  Words  Pictures  sounds  Organize the content  How many pages  Rather than a lot of scrolling – make more pages

 Design the page on paper first  Make it in Word, Excel, or Powerpoint  Allows you move things around  Find and Save your graphics  Preview any animations – by using PowerPoint  Add sounds using PowerPoint  Make multiple pages – home page, link pages  Get input on design from friends

 Code in HTML  Learn how to do coding  Books available  If you did your work in Word  Save as  Other  Save as Type  Web Page

 If you are using a text editor or word processing program  Make sure you keep a folder or create a new directory for your information  If you are using a web editor  It will save your work as a web page when you use the save button.

Do  Use Colors that complement each other  Where the text stands out  Make your page easy to read  Remember colors will look different on different browsers  Try and check them out Don’t  Blind People  Make colors so alike or so light they get lost  Make a rainbow in one word  Avoid large amounts of red and shocking pink  Be Kind to your readers

 Most common are:  Description Meta Tags  Key Word Meta Tags  The Description Meta Tag summarizes pages contents  Key Word Meta Tag contains a selection of words that are mission critical to your page

 Meta tags enable the search engine to find your page  It looks for meta tags  If it doesn’t find any – it uses the first few words of the page.  This may make it impossible for your page to be displayed to the target audience