The software we will be using to edit HTML files is named PageSpinner. It is a shareware product which we have licensed for use in our lab.
One does not actually need special software to create HTML files. They are just text files. They can be created with any word processing program that provides a "SAVE AS TEXT" option (Microsoft Word, for example). PageSpinner, however, makes one's life a bit easier by providing some special features to aid the HTML author.
If you are reading these instructions through Netscape Navigator, things will get a bit tricky in a moment. When you start PageSpinner, it will create a window that will obscure the Navigator window you are currently reading. At the upper right corner of the Mac screen, you will see a little icon representing the currently active application. If you depress the mouse on this icon, a menu will pop up listing all the running applications. Selecting an application will make it the active application. So, after PageSpinner starts up, you can return to Navigator by selecting its name from this menu. Later, you can get back to PageSpinner by selecting PageSpinner's name from the same menu.
To start PageSpinner simply:
PageSpinner opens up a new window containing the skeleton of HTML needed for any web page. Note the tags that delimit the HEAD and BODY of the file. In the HEAD section the TITLE tag is used to give this page the title "Untitled".
Using the mouse and keyboard as you would with any word processor, edit this text to replace "Untitled" with something more useful like
(Of course, use your name instead of Herb's even though I'll use his name in examples throughout the rest of this writeup.)Herb Gritz's Home Page
Now, we can save this almost empty file into your "www" folder on "CS bull" to create your first web page. Do this by saving the untitled file as "index.html".
Congratulations! You now have a home page on the web!
