Web Page Template

Web Page Template – When you create one you will be able to implement an identical look and feel throughout your website. Shortly it will be time to build your web site We will start this off by building a web page template that includes:

* Designing the template only
* Finding positions for your images
* Selecting the right colors
* Adding your navigation links to this template
(just use links to pages you will create and name in the future)
* Double checking your template and make sure you don’t need to change anything
* Double check your navigation links. Did you forget to add any?
* Once you’re convinced that this is going to be your template page save it over and over again as the link names on your navigation links. Your look and feel will now be identical throughout your web site.
* Change the content only on each page you created using the web page template and save them as you make changes.
* Your web site should now be complete

Tips – On your computer create a folder where you will save your web page template and html files and then create a folder titled images inside this folder.

Example – c:/foldername/web page1.html

Now save all of your web page’s into this folder and your images into the images folder.

Example – c:/foldername/images

The links from your web page to your images should be:

Example – c:/foldername/myweb page.htm/images

So when you upload your web page’s the images will be linked from the images directory on your server.

Now login to your hosting account and in your main directory upload the complete images folder. The folder should be created for you as you do this. In the main directory upload all of your html files.

Visit the web page and your job is now complete.

Tips – Your web page’s can be saved with an extension such as .htm or .html. As long as they are all linked properly this will not matter. The only thing you need to investigate with your webhosting company is what extension your main web page needs to be so that when visitors visit your web site.

Example – www.mywebsite.com it auto defaults to www.mywebsite.com/index.html.

Traditionally its index.html but please check this with your web host. What I tend to do with my image is to upload them first into the images folder then link to them directly

Example – www.mywebsite.com/images/image1.jpg

How you do this is your choice. Before you delve in too deep have a practice putting up a web page first then a web page with images onto a remote server using your web page making software.