presented by trisha cummings. why have a web page? to become known worldwide advertise and sell...
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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