Creating Your Web Pages

Make sure you save your “Home” page as “index.htm”

• Make sure you save your “Home” page as “index.htm”
• This ensures that this page opens when someone browses to your site

• Building a Web site with Microsoft Word

Make a few pages (Home, Background, Products) and save as Web pages

• Make a few pages (Home, Background, Products) and save as Web pages
• Link them together
• Highlight words
• Insert: Hyperlink (A hyperlink is a section of content that is clickable and brings you to another place, or performs some action, when you click it)
• Can also link to other web pages

• Building a Web site with Microsoft Word

STILL REQUIRES purchasing a domain name and Web host in order to upload

• STILL REQUIRES purchasing a domain name and Web host in order to upload
• Uploading instructions will be sent by Web host
• Typically involve logging onto your account and selecting which files are involved
• Most sites use FTP: File Transfer Protocol
• Similar to Windows Explorer: Click & Drag which files you want to upload

• Building a Web site with Microsoft Word

Uploading Files Example:

• Uploading Files Example:
• File Transfer Protocol as part of GoDaddy.com

• Building a Web site with Microsoft Word

Some helpful hints:

• Some helpful hints:
• Keep all files used (pictures, pages, any logos) in the SAME FOLDER
• This will save a lot of time when you “upload” your files to the Web host

• Building a Web site with Microsoft Word

Online Templates

• Most sources offer templates so that you can design your Web site with very little computer knowledge.
• No need to know HTML or even Microsoft – just choose and type what you want to be on your site