EC213 Macroeconomics
National University of Ireland, Galway
Semester II 1999/2000
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Writing web pages
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You need to able to do two things to complete your project:
- Write your web pages
i.e. use HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- Make them available on the web
i.e. post the pages on a server.
We'll deal with the first issue here, and the second next week (Week 7)
You need:
- A text editor (the most basic type of word processing software):
I recommend NotePad if you are using a Windows machine, or SimpleText on the
Mac (these come as standard with whichever computer you are using).
- A copy of a browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer:
You do not need to be connected to the internet to write and view your
pages.
- A beginnner's guide to HTML
which covers all you need to write HTML files/web pages.
A word of advice
From experience, I am strongly recommending that for this project at least,
you do not use specialist web page creation software.
In previous years, using this software without understanding the underlying
HTML codes (despite my advice) has caused lots of frustration for
students. This is essentially because it is sometimes very difficult to fix
problematic web pages in these packages, unless you know a lot of HTML.
You should also avoid using the facility in Word to save files as HTML, as
this has caused similar problems.
I do not have the time to deal with problems which arise as a result from
not following my advice on this front.
Basic steps
The basic steps (covered in class) are:
- You begin with a minimal HTML document, written as a text file, which
you save.
- You open this file within Netscape (or Internet Explorer) to view it
as a web page.
- If you change the underlying HTML document, first you make sure you
save the file, then you reload/refresh the file in Netscape/Internet
Explorer, to see the changes take effect.
The following links are also worth a look:
24th February 2000
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