Tools for Creating Web Pages

In order to create your own web pages, various methods can be used.

If you 'view source' using an option on your browser, you can see the HTML code used for displaying the web page. HTML is HyperText Markup Language. HTML files are raw text (ASCII with no formatting such as bold, font etc.) and the HTML markup, as distinct from the text to be displayed on the page, is within angled brackets.

When an HTML file is viewed with a Web browser, the codes are not displayed but act to determine the appearance of what is displayed. For example, different heading sizes or bulleted paragraphs can be created using the appropriate HTML code.

Different Web browsers display HTML pages slightly differently. Most browsers show graphics but some (e.g. Lynx) can be used on text-only computer terminals.

There are various tools that can be used to create and manage whole Web sites.  Popular site creation tools include FrontPage and Dreamweaver.  FrontPage 2003 is supported by IT Services and is available free to staff of The University.

If you want to create web pages on the IIS server or in your personal web space (ie in the public_html directory on your N: drive or Unix home directory), two documents: Creating Personal Web Pages Using Microsoft FrontPage 2003 and Managing Personal Web Pages Using Microsoft FrontPage 2003: give further information on how to prepare pages and how to manage the whole web site.

Microsoft Word and Excel also come with facilities to convert pages to HTML format.

Publishing on the World-Wide Web,gives information on how to publish web pages and sites at the University of Reading.