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Programs & Word Processors Can Create HTML Pages
If you
are not up to writing html code in Word Pad or you don't have a full fledged
site editor like Hot Dog or Go Live, try starting out with something you
do know,
and may even be a whiz at
expressing yourself through. You may find that all
those hours you invested
in learning that new office productivity program get to
pay off again. It's a great
bonus because with very little extra effort, you can turn
all that creative talent
and word processing expertise into a stunning web page complete with bells,
whistles and even watermarks.
Good Candidates
MS Powerpoint
Harvard Graphics
Corel Presentations
MSWord
MS Publisher
Word Perfect
Adobe Pagemaker
Word Perfect
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sure that the web page you've created (or the first page of several) is
named
index.html or your web server will not be able to find
it and show your nifty web site to you or anyone else. This is one of those
rules you just have to follow, and keep all the type in lower case, please.
You may name the rest of the pages anything you darn well please from page2.html
to s4uivtron.html. I suggest that if you have more than two pages
in your masterpiece, you make them easy to sort out, especially if you
tend to work, even occasionally, between 11 PM and 3 AM making updates,
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Your
next step is to open this index.html page in IE or Netscape, preferably
both, although not at the same time and look at in the browser. If you
like what you see, great, if not, go back and work on it. It doesn't look
exactly the way it did in the slide or wp program because a web page is
wider than it is long in most cases whereas office sheet paper is longer
than it is wide. If you have inserted tables or large graphics, you may
want to make some size tweaking adjustments. Each of the programs has it's
own "wills and won'ts" as far as cooperating with your browser. Some slide
programs will show great animated transitions in the web pages, others
won't play the music. The good news is that they get better with each new
release and easier to use. Soon you'll be a pro. If you have any major
difficulties pick up a manual or yell HELP on a web site like this one
or in a net forum and someone
will rescue you- I guarantee
it.
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