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Step 1
First you need to create a text document containing
the words that you want to appear on your Web page.
Most word processing programs will work fine, as long
as you give your document a name ending in .html (or
.htm if you're working on a PC) and save the document
as "Text Only." Type out your story, book
review, fascinating facts about Jupiter, or whatever
it is you want to publish. Here are some tips for organizing
your text:
- Begin with a title and an attention-grabbing
greeting or introduction, so people will know immediately
what your page is about and will want to read more.
- Think about logical places to insert breaks in
your text. No one wants to scroll down a long, uninterrupted
block of text. Your page will be a lot more readable
if you put in frequent paragraph breaks and horizontal
rules (more about these later).
- Think about where you might want to insert pictures,
if you have them in electronic files. (More about
downloading images in Step #4.) A lot of pages start
off with an eye-catching image right at the top,
next to the title.
- If your word processing program has an option
for "smart" or "curly" quotes,
turn it off! Curly quotes will show up on a browser
as strange little icons rather than quotation marks.
The straight quotes may not look as nice, but they're
the ones you have to use for Web authoring
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