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Web Pages. Presented by Trisha Cummings. Why Have a Web Page?. To become known WorldWide Advertise and sell things Publish a Fanzine Support a cause Share knowlwdge Promote a country. Be Known Worldwide. Great way to tell the world about you Your family Your hobbies
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Web Pages Presented by Trisha Cummings
Why Have a Web Page? • To become known WorldWide • Advertise and sell things • Publish a Fanzine • Support a cause • Share knowlwdge • Promote a country
Be Known Worldwide • 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
Advertise and sell things • 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
Publish a Fanzine • Have a fan site about your • favorite show • favorite actor • favorite singer • Sports star • Music group
Support a Cause • 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
Share Knowledge • Can be built by • Individuals • Researchers • Students • Specialist • Can cover any kind of knowledge or interest • Recipes • Medical advice • Academic articles • Post research
Promote a Country, State, City…. • 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
Panning your Website • Content • Layout • Enter your information • Save your page
Content • 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
Layout • 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
Enter Information • 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
Save your 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.
Color Advice Do 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 • 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
Meta Tags • 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
Why Have Meta Tags • 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