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Chapter 1: Web Publishing Basics
These steps are usually simple if you’re creating a basic Web page. However,
they do get more complicated sometimes, especially if you’re trying to create
a multipage Web site. This book tells you several different, easy ways to get
content up on several different kinds of sites or create a Web page, and gets
you started on expanding your Web page into a multipage Web site.
When you create a Web page that has complex formatting, or that mixes text
and graphics, you’ll want to test it in the most popular Web browsers. You
should download Microsoft Internet Explorer, the America Online client, the
Firefox browser, the Opera browser, the Safari browser, and/or other tools.
For an example of a good-looking Web page, check out the For Dummies
home page, shown in Figure 1-2. It has an attractive layout, interesting
information, and links to a great deal more information on the For Dummies
site and other sites. The For Dummies Web site is professionally done, but
you too can achieve good results with a reasonable amount of planning
and hard work. In this book, I concentrate on helping you create a simple,
individual Web page and combining several Web pages into a closely linked
group of pages called a Web site, such as the For Dummies site.
Note: The For Dummies home page is shown in Microsoft Internet Explorer,
the most popular Web browser. For consistency, I use Internet Explorer for
most of the Web-page images in this book.
Web terms to know
To clear up how I define and use some Web
terms, here’s a brief primer:
 Web page: A text document that is
published on a Web server, has HTML tags
in it, almost always includes hypertext links,
and usually includes graphics. When you
click the Back button in your Web browser,
you move to the previous Web page that
you visited.
 Web site: A collection of Web pages that
share a common theme and purpose, and
that users generally access through the
site’s home page.
 Home page: The Web page that people
generally access first within a Web site.
You let people know the URL (address) of
your home page and try to get other Web
page creators to provide links to it.
 HTML tags: Brief formatting or linking
commands placed within brackets in the
text of an HTML file. For instance, the <b>
tag tells the Web browser to display text
after the command in bold type; the </b>
tag turns the bold off. (See Part IV for more
on HTML.)
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