Creating personal web pages

for casual users:

How to easily create a personal home page in
Word?
Microsoft Word includes a Web Page Wizard that makes it easy to create a
Web Calendar, Table of Contents, Personal Home Page, and more. To create
a Personal Home Page using the Web Page Wizard, do the following:
Step 1: Go to the ile menu and select !"e#.!
Step 2: $n the "e# dialog bo%, select the !Web Pages! tab.
Step 3: &ingle'click on the !Web Page Wizard! icon and click on ().
Step 4: &elect !Personal Home Page! from the list of Web documents. Click
on "*+T.
Step : &ingle click on a style name to ,re-ie# the style. .fter you find a
style you like, click on $"$&H.
.fter you com,lete the Web Page Wizard, you can customi!e your
personal home page /ust as you #ould customize a Word document.
Though the follo#ing is not a com,rehensi-e list of all the things you can do
to customize your ,ersonal home ,age in Microsoft Word, it does ,ro-ide a
fe# ideas to hel, you get started:
Change the Background
To change the background color or te%ture, go to the ormat menu and
select !0ackground.! This #ill o,en the color ,alette. &elect a color for your
background from the ,alette, or select !ill *ffects! to select a te%ture. 1ou
can use one of the 23 te%tures that comes #ith Word, or you can click on the
!(ther Te%ture! button to bro#se for an image file that you #ant to use.
Add or Edit Hyperlinks
The basic ,ersonal home ,age created by the Web Page Wizard includes
hy,erlinks to bookmarks in the file. To edit one of these hy,erlinks, right'
click on the hy,erlink. This #ill o,en a conte%t'sensiti-e menu. rom this
menu, select Hy,erlink: *dit Hy,erlink. This #ill o,en the *dit Hy,erlink
dialog bo%. rom this dialog, you can either link to another file, an $nternet
or intranet location, or a different bookmark #ithin the current document.
Add Additional Elements to Your Page
0ecause you are using Word as your Web',age authoring tool, you can add
many additional elements to your ,ersonal home ,age. 4ust a fe# e%am,les
include Tables, &crolling Mar5uees, background sounds, Word.rt, lines,
bullets and more. .ccess Word hel,, or the (ffice .ssistant, to find out ho#
to add these features to your home ,age.
for power users:
"esources for creating web pages:
or ,o#er users there e%ist basically t#o a,,roaches for creating #eb ,ages:
those #ho ,refer gra,hical Website building, and
those #ho ,refer code'based authoring.
The leading re,resentati-e for gra,hical Website building is M&'ront,age.
Ho#e-er most W1&$W1G editors modify im,orted HTM6 code mor or less
or7and ,roduce blo#n'u, code #hich is difficult to edit after#ards. $f you
,refer to ha-e com,lete control o-er your code than you may use a code'
based authoring tool, as e.g. Macromedia8s Home&ite or e-en9ream#ea-er.
0oth ,rograms are a-ailable at $GT.
urthermore numerous sites e%ist #here you can get information o-er all
resources for creating #eb ,ages, connect them to databases etc. .n
e%cellent tutorial in german #ith interacti-e e%am,les is ,ro-ided by Partl. .
good starting ,oint for more demanding content may be the site
of WebMonkey.
Peo,le #ho are already in-ol-ed #ith design and ty,ogra,hy for con-entional
,rint #ith ,age layout tools like :uark +Press, Photo&ho,, reehand and
$llustrator may #ant to e%,lore the additional ,ossibilities and benefits
of designing #eb ,ages.