How to Make a Web Page

Series Summary

Designing a Web site with a professional program like Dreamweaver can be a daunting task. Even programs designed for the casual user such as Microsoft's FrontPage can be difficult to use, with tricky instructions and features that can be hard to figure out. Programming a Web page from scratch, however, with a web design scripting language is the hardest yet, but getting a fully customized and optimized website often requires creating the page from the bottom. In this free video series on Web design, a software developer teaches basic HTML for designing a custom Web page. This free video series covers how to design a simple web page with texts, lists, tables, headers and bullet points. These videos offer visual instruction on using HTML tags and scripting a Web page from scratch. Changing text colors, fonts and sizes in HTML will never be easier. Setting up background images, transparent GIFs and tiled pictures can customize the most basic of web designs.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Luis Estrada, and I am a software developer. In this video, I will show you how to create web pages. A web page is information formatted for the World Wide Web, most commonly referred to as the web. A web page is viewable by a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape, etc. All web pages have one thing in common. They are written in HTML language. HTML means hypertext markup language. If you right click on any web page or web site you commonly use and then select view source, you will see an example of what HTML looks like. Now, don't be scared if there's too much information here, or it appears to be very complex. HTML can be quite easy to use, but it can get very complicated; depending on the amount of functionality and content that you want to add to your web page. There are many ways to create a web page; for example, using a simple text editor to type our own HTML ourselves, or using a software program that creates the HTML code for us. Also, we can use services that generate the finished pages available on the web for us. For this series of videos I will show you how to create your own web pages using a simple text editor, so you won't have to spend much money on buying one of the very powerful web page editors out there; even if you prefer to create web pages using only a graphical interface so you don't have to code the HTML yourself. Knowing and getting familiar with the most common HTML tags will save you a lot of time in the future, and will give you a better insight on how web page editors work, and how to get the most out of them. I am Luis Estrada, and I've just shown you how to create web pages using HTML."