Web Page Essentials: Tips and Tricks for Building an Impactful Online Presence
Learn the importance of having a web page, whether to promote personal events, sell products, support a cause, share knowledge, or promote a country. Get insights on content, layout, design, and saving your page effectively. Discover the significance of using colors, meta tags, and coding to enhance your web page visibility and accessibility.
Web Page Essentials: Tips and Tricks for Building an Impactful Online Presence
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Web Pages Presented by Trisha Cummings
Why Have a Web Page? • To become known WorldWide • Advertise and sell things • Publish a Fanzine • Support a cause • Share knowlwdge • Promote a country
Be Known Worldwide • Great way to tell the world about you • Your family • Your hobbies • Your family reunion • Your graduation • Your wedding • Your new baby • Memory page for your beloved departed
Advertise and sell things • Provide information about your products • Provide information about your services • Provide information about your company • Have customers place orders • Have customers pay their bills • Find out your customers opinions and preferences to improve your website, your services and your products as well as expand your market
Publish a Fanzine • Have a fan site about your • favorite show • favorite actor • favorite singer • Sports star • Music group
Support a Cause • Use a web site to explain about your beliefs and goals • Charities • Political parties • Religious organizations • Private organizations • Details of campaignes • Where to send donations • What you can donate • How you can help
Share Knowledge • Can be built by • Individuals • Researchers • Students • Specialist • Can cover any kind of knowledge or interest • Recipes • Medical advice • Academic articles • Post research
Promote a Country, State, City…. • Tell users about your government agencies • Tell users about the people in office • Tell users what tourist sites you have • Include where to stay • What to see • Where to go to get help • For legal issues • For health issues
Panning your Website • Content • Layout • Enter your information • Save your page
Content • Before you start building you need to plan it carefully • Decide the content • Words • Pictures • sounds • Organize the content • How many pages • Rather than a lot of scrolling – make more pages
Layout • Design the page on paper first • Make it in Word, Excel, or Powerpoint • Allows you move things around • Find and Save your graphics • Preview any animations – by using PowerPoint • Add sounds using PowerPoint • Make multiple pages – home page, link pages • Get input on design from friends
Enter Information • Code in HTML • Learn how to do coding • Books available • If you did your work in Word • Save as • Other • Save as Type • Web Page
Save your page • If you are using a text editor or word processing program • Make sure you keep a folder or create a new directory for your information • If you are using a web editor • It will save your work as a web page when you use the save button.
Color Advice Do Don’t Blind People Make colors so alike or so light they get lost Make a rainbow in one word Avoid large amounts of red and shocking pink Be Kind to your readers • Use Colors that complement each other • Where the text stands out • Make your page easy to read • Remember colors will look different on different browsers • Try and check them out
Meta Tags • Most common are: • Description Meta Tags • Key Word Meta Tags • The Description Meta Tag summarizes pages contents • Key Word Meta Tag contains a selection of words that are mission critical to your page
Why Have Meta Tags • Meta tags enable the search engine to find your page • It looks for meta tags • If it doesn’t find any – it uses the first few words of the page. • This may make it impossible for your page to be displayed to the target audience