Chapter 9: Creating Documents for the Web


Overview

In this chapter you will learn to:

  • Create and modify a Web document.

  • Add hyperlinks.

  • Create an XML document.

If you have ever explored the Web to check the news, find sports scores, or research a topic, you know that the Web is appealing, informative, and immediate. It’s also a great business or publishing tool if you are trying to reach a broad audience. It’s not difficult to transform your documents into Web pages so that people can read them on the Web. For example, The Garden Company might want to publish a Web newsletter to provide information about gardening while advertising its merchandise and services. Customers and gardening enthusiasts can then read the newsletter in a Web browser.

Professional Web designers use special programs, such as Microsoft FrontPage, to design sophisticated Web sites (collections of related Web pages). However, you can use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to create simple Web pages or to convert existing documents to Web pages. With Word, you can save a document as a Web page, preview it in your Web browser, and then modify the page as necessary. You can also add hyperlinks (also called links) to the document to provide a quick way of jumping to other documents, Web pages, or e-mail addresses.

When you convert a document to a Web page, Word translates the styles and formatting in the document to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) codes, called tags, that tell your Web browser how to display the document. You can also convert a document using Extensible Markup Language (XML). XML is a system for defining, validating, and sharing documents that uses tags to distinguish document structures, attributes to define extra document information, and transforms to extract different items of tagged information for different purposes.

In this chapter, you will create a Web document from a Word document, create and modify a page in which information is displayed in frames, and then add links. You’ll also convert a Word document into an XML document.

See Also

Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on pages xlviii–xlix.

Important

On The CD Before you can use the practice files in this chapter, you need to install them from the book’s companion CD to their default location. See “Using the Book’s CD-ROM” on page xiii for more information.




Microsoft Office Word 2003 Step by Step
MicrosoftВ® Office Word 2003 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735615233
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 156

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