Presented by Trisha Cummings

Why Have a Web Page?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

ContentLayoutEnter your informationSave 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