Jennifer's Bare Bones Web Page

Here are some basic rules to remember when creating your pages:

Most html codes must used in pairs, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the text I want appear with a particular formatting, such as a different font color, font face or in bold or italics. Codes are also used to create tables and lists. If you view the source of this page, you will notice some codes appear by themselves, such as coding for paragraphs, line breaks, or list elements such as bullets or numbering. For more specific examples, visit my web authoring class web site located at www.hartnell.edu/faculty/jlagier/cis89/index.htm and take a look at the first few assignments and examples within those pages.
The web browser will not display spaces unless those spaces are single spaces between words in a sentence or coded using special html codes to indicate blank spaces.
The web browser will not display hard returns made in the html document within your text editor or word processor. To break a line, use a line break code
such as the one I used in this sentence to force the rest of the text after the word "code" to the next line. You can also use a paragraph code which appears between each item in this list.
The web browser will not display text formatting such as bold, italics, underlining which is applied to text using a text editor or word processing program. It can only interpret html coding to provide the appropriate format display.
You can display images on your page only if those images are in the correct format, usually JPG or GIF formats.
In addition, the image you wish to display must either be saved into the same directory as your html file or you must include a path statement in your html coding so the browser can find the image on either your disk or the web server disk space. I'll add an image below this item so you can see the correct coding (using View, Source) to display an image. The name of this image file is quill.gif.
A list of some of the more commonly used, basic html codes are available on my web authoring website, www.hartnell.edu/faculty/jlagier/cis89/html.htm
Once you have completed coding your web page, save it to your floppy disk or hard drive, making sure that you save in text format (not Word or another format!) giving it a name such as myfile.htm or myfile.htm. Files can end with either the html or htm extension. If you are using a system with Windows 3.1, it can only recognize files with a three character extension, hence the htm rather than html ending. There is no need to exit your text editor or word processing program at this point. In fact, you may want to keep it up and move
After you finish coding your page and save your file, you will want to view it in the web browser to make sure it displays as you wish and doesn't contain any coding errors. To do this, start your web browser program, the go to File, Open Page, and open the page you just saved. If nothing appears on your screen, view the page source to see if you have any errors in your coding. A misplaced bracket or html code can prevent the entire page from displaying. If you have an error, simply move to your text editor or word processing window and correct the coding, save again (remember, save in text format with an htm or html extension). Go back to your browser and click on the Reload button. Repeat the process until your page appears on the screen exactly the way that you want it.

Please do not hesitate to contact your instructor if you have any questions or problems.

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