Doing the work

Now that you have your tools, outline and webspace it's time to get to work.
First open your WYSIWYG editor and layout your page the way you would like to see it. Remember to save your document as you go. Every time you make a change, save it. Once you have your page looking the way you want it you can begin adding other elements such as javascript, java, and music. You'll want to do that in a text editor. Make sure that you save your main page as index.html, after that you can call it anything. Close out your wysiwyg editor and open that same file with a text editor. Start your text editor then select “all files” and the directory that holds your files. Find your html file and open it. Looks like gobbledy gook doesn't it. Take a good look at it, then take a look at the html cheatsheet on this website, either here or here. Now that you have it opened you can add metatags, or copy and paste javascript or java or even embed sound into the page. This is where you want to do that, not in your wysiwyg editor. For some reason most wysiwyg editors don't do a good job with javascript and if you open your file into that kind of editor again you most likely will undo your work and the javascript won't process properly again. So, get used to doing the bulk of your work in a standard text editor.

Now that you have your tools, outline and webspace it's time to get to work.

First open your WYSIWYG editor and layout your page the way you would like to see it.

Remember to save your document as you go. Every time you make a change, save it.

Once you have your page looking the way you want it you can begin adding other elements such as javascript, java, and music. You'll want to do that in a text editor.

Make sure that you save your main page as index.html, after that you can call it anything.

Close out your wysiwyg editor and open that same file with a text editor.

Start your text editor then select “all files” and the directory that holds your files. Find your html file and open it. Looks like gobbledy gook doesn't it. Take a good look at it, then take a look at the html cheatsheet on this website, either here or here.

Now that you have it opened you can add metatags, or copy and paste javascript or java or even embed sound into the page. This is where you want to do that, not in your wysiwyg editor.

For some reason most wysiwyg editors don't do a good job with javascript and if you open your file into that kind of editor again you most likely will undo your work and the javascript won't process properly again. So, get used to doing the bulk of your work in a standard text editor.

Upload your files
Now comes the fun part, uploading your files to the webserver. You will need to know your user name and password the first time you set up your ftp client, after that you can have it remember those things for you so that whenever you need to upload your files all you need to do is start the service (program). When you upload your html file you will also need to upload any other files that go with it, such as, music, graphics, .js, .class, and other kinds of files that are associated with your page.

Upload your files

Now comes the fun part, uploading your files to the webserver.

You will need to know your user name and password the first time you set up your ftp client,

after that you can have it remember those things for you so that whenever you need to upload

your files all you need to do is start the service (program).

When you upload your html file you will also need to upload any other files that go with it,

such as, music, graphics, .js, .class, and other kinds of files that are associated with your page.

Now the satisfying part, viewing your pages.
Most webmasters have several browsers to view their pages in because not everybody uses the same one. I would suggest that you use Mozilla and Internet Explorer to start with. According to the stats on my pages 90% of the visitors I have use I.E., the rest use Mozilla or Netscape Navigator. Both Netscape and Mozilla use the same core engine although Mozilla is cleaner and easier to use, which is why I suggest it. Open your page with both browsers to see how it works in both of them. Enjoy your work and keep learning.

Now the satisfying part, viewing your pages.

Most webmasters have several browsers to view their pages in because not everybody uses

the same one. I would suggest that you use Mozilla and Internet Explorer to start with.

According to the stats on my pages 90% of the visitors I have use I.E., the rest use Mozilla or

Netscape Navigator. Both Netscape and Mozilla use the same core engine although Mozilla is

cleaner and easier to use, which is why I suggest it.

Open your page with both browsers to see how it works in both of them.

Enjoy your work and keep learning.

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