WebSchool 101
Building Your Own HomePage
Basic Questions
1. What is a Home Page?
- Web Pages: are individual documents (including text,
audio, video, and combinations of those (also called
multimedia) made available on the World-Wide-Web.
- HomePage: is YOUR personal page - or the starting
point of an individual's or company's Web Pages.
2. What is HTML? (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language)
- Hyper-Text: allows you to jump from one document to another,
by selecting a "link" in the original document.
- Mark-up Language: the codes added to a regular document that
allow the Hyper-Text functions to work.
3. Don't I need to be a PROGRAMMER to do this?
- Yes. (just kidding) (but yes) (sort of) (we all are) (never mind)
- No. This stuff is simple. Just a few commands that make
the viewer's screen display your information the way you
want it presented.
4. When can I start?
- Thought you'd never ask!
Let's Go!