National Math Trail Technology Tutorial
Creating Your Own Web Page
Sometimes people think a web page is the same as a home page. It's not. A home page is the first page of a web site. For example, if you wanted to go to the web site for the Whitehouse, you would type in "www.whitehouse.gov" and the first page that comes up is the "home" page. A web page is any page that is on the Internet and part of a web site.
A web page is written in code called HTML. To make one, you can write
the code yourself, and the browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer) will
interpret that code and show it as a web page. Here is an example of
HTML code for a web page:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My First Web Page
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
This is my first web page. Anyone can see it when
they are on the internet.
</BODY>
</HTML>
An easy way to make a web page is to go to several websites like this list of Basic
HTML editors on the
Internet that help you create them using a program that is referred to as an editor.
An editor let's you create a web page by writing the HTML code for you.
In fact, you never see the code, only the web page itself as you create it.
Try another editor by going to
Yahoo!GeoCities. You will need to sign up first. You need to
create a Yahoo!ID and a Password. Once you've done that,
click on the type of web page you would like to create. They
offer a Photo Page, Personal Page, Party Invitation and more.
Go through the steps and you have a web page. It's very
easy and they host it there for free.
Create your National Math Trail submission using one of these web page editors and you'll have it looking exactly the way you want it to.