2. What is a Web Page? Web pages are a combination of text and graphics, wrapped in a special “markup” language. The markup language (Hypertext Markup Language – HTML) is used to tell a browser how to display the page.

3. Example Web Page How it looks in your browser The “source code” of the same web page. This is what the browser uses to display the page to the left

4. Building a Web Page Three ways to build a web page 1. Use a text editor such as Notepad and write the HTML yourself 2. Use MS Word and save your file as a web page 3. Use a specialized web page editor, e.g.: Nvu Expression Web

5. Recommended Way Use a special web page editor Has features to make editing of web pages easier Works like a word processor, but places HTML code/tags “under the covers” so you do not have to work with them directly Generates relatively “clean” HTML code Choice of tools Nvu: relatively easy to use, available for free MS Expression Web: more robust, also available free

6. Publishing Your Web Page Your web page must be placed on a web server for it to be accessible to others Typically, this means your HTML files will have to be uploaded Your web pages should have a file suffix of either.htm or.html Once you have uploaded your web page to a file server, it will have a URL (web address)

7. Publishing Your Page College of Business provides a web server for student web pages This is the same web server you will use in BA 302 to publish your electronic portfolio Explanation of how to do this is in other links/tutorials