The ten minute webpage

Q: I want to make a webpage, but I don’t know how. Is there an easy way to make one? Is it worth it to learn how to make one?
A: Webpages are the low cost PR men of our time. They say whatever we want them to, and they work tirelessly for us twenty-four hours a day. Webpages, simply put are documents that have text and or graphics and that are available on the Internet. In my opinion, it is definitely worth investing the time and or money to learn how to make a website, even if it is a simple one. It certainly offers more benefit that harm. A long time deterrent for those who wanted to learn to make webpages was the thought of having to learn to write the code that makes up webpage. If that is your fear then fear not, because many webpage building software on market allow users to drag and drop objects that they want to add to their webpage.
You have a plethora of options when it comes to webpage construction. You pay someone to make one for you, but then you would not be learning how to make one yourself. The next option is to use an html editor. HTML stands for hypertext markup language, and it is the most popular markup language in use by novice. Some of the frontrunners in the html editor software field are Corel Web Designer, Macromedia Contribute, and Microsoft FrontPage. These programs will set you back a little financially, but they are worth it if webpage building is something that you plan to pursue long term.
If price is a determining factor then you may want to search websites such as freedownloadscenter.com. They offer a selection of freeware or shareware at low or no cost. I believe that the easiest option is to use Microsoft Word. Many people are already familiar with the word processing program, but few use it produce webpages. To turn a word document into a webpage, all that you need to do is save it as a webpage. This option is actually listed below the “save as” option under the file header. To add hyperlinks, which can use a word in your document to connect to another document, simply highlight the word by holding on the left side of the mouse and drag it across the word that you want to hyperlink. Next, select the “hyperlink” option under the insert header. You can now type in the web address of the website that you like it to connect with. You can change the color or appearance of the documents background by looking under the format header and selecting either “background” or “theme”. Background will fill the background of the document with a color or texture. Feel free to use the “more colors” and “fill effects” options listed under background. The theme option will give you a choice of templates to apply to your document.