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A web authoring program is used to create web pages. These pages can then be used on an Intranet or uploaded to a web site on the Internet.

A web authoring program allows the user to...

  • create and edit web pages
  • set the properties of the web page
  • add text, images, sounds or moving video clips to a web page
  • edit the layout of a page
  • set up style sheets for consistency of style on a number of web pages
  • add hyperlinks to navigate from one page to another
  • add frames to a page to split it into different areas.
  • include small sections of program code (Eg. JavaScript) that allow some animation or interactivity on the page.

 

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

HTML is a special language used for creating web pages for the Internet.

The instructions in an HTML page tell a web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Netscape) how to display a web page.

It uses tags to identify sections of the page.
Example : <head> indicates the start of the Header section and </head> indicates the end.

The shape of an HTML page is :

<html>  
<head>  
  The header - identification and search keywords etc
</head>  
<body>  
  The body - data which is to be displayed and formatting instructions indicating how it is to be displayed.
</body>  
</html>  

There are many HTML editors available (eg Microsoft Frontpage) which are software packages used to create web pages. Displays are WYSIWYG and you do not need to know any HTML syntax.

Hyperlinks allow the user to move from one web page to another.