Web pages are made up of a complicated code called HTML. This code tells web browsers how to display the information from a web page onto your computer. For example, below is HTML code from this web page to this point.
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>New Page 13</title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0"><meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none"><meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none"></head><body><p align="center"><!--webbot bot="ImageMap"text="(184,9) (238, 31) {} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 "text="(364,17) (418, 39) {Home} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/index.htm"text="(364,0) (418, 22) {Search} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/Searchpagehtm.htm"text="(264,17) (366, 39) {Songs & Poems} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/ChildrensSongs.htm"text="(261,0) (363, 22) {Classroom} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/intheclassroom.htm"text="(158,17) (260, 39) {Special Education} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/specialeducation.htm"text="(160,0) (262, 22) {Just 4 Teachers} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/just4teachers.htm"text="(58,17) (160, 39) {Education} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/education.htm"text="(60,0) (162, 22) {Technology} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0http://bk/technologyintheclassroom.htm"text="(4,17) (58, 39) {Units} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/Thematicunits.html"text="(6,1) (60, 23) {Lessons} {Times New Roman} 10 B #ffffff CT 0 http://bk/lessonplans.html"src="http://bk/images/teachersguideboard.gif" alt="teachersguideboard.gif (1340 bytes)"border="0" width="422" height="40" --></p><table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#008080"><p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF"><strong><big>HTMLEditors</big></strong></font></td></tr></table><p>Web pages are made up of a complicated code called HTML. This code tells webbrowsers how to display the information from a web page onto your computer. Forexample, below is HTML code from this web page to this point.</p>
I have condensed the code for the sake of space, but you can clearly see how overwhelming working with the code can be. Until recently, web page developers had to type this code in one by one. Now you can build a page as easily as typing up a paper on a word processor. I use a WYSIWYG or WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET editor. This simply means that you type what you want and it calculates the code for you. You can change colors, fonts, add tables, pictures, anything you prefer with the stroke of a key. I constructed this web page using Frontpage 98. It is a very nice program but a bit costly. There are several free programs that are also very nice. For my previous site, I used AOLPRESS, a free, simple program that works. It also has a nice tutorial to get you started. Below are links to many HTML editors, some free..some not.