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<td valign="top">Making Web Pages - Part 2 
(by Mark Warner)
Thank You
for taking the time to complete that survey. I am very
interested in finding out how the internet is being used
in the classroom, so I will be regularly checking the
results.
If you did not look at
the results, click <a
href="http://mail.infotrieve.com/isurvey/results.cfm?vendorid=6140&formid=F0006140">here</a>.
So, if you have
not yet taught the children in your class how to make web
pages, read on.....
How can children make
Web Pages?
Despite what you might
think, making web pages is very easy
There are three main ways:
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1. Write HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language). HTML is the code that is
sent to your computer when you ask to access a web
page. Your computer's web browser then interprets
this code and displays the web page on the screen.
Click <a
href="htmlexample.htm" target="_newbie">here</a> to see what
the HTML for this page looks like.
As you should have
seen by clicking the above link, this code can get
very complicated. However, it can be simplified for
young children and they can make their own simple web
pages by learning HTML. If you are more interested in
learning HTML, there are many guides on the net which
will show you how to do so.
Leon Cych (creator of
All Souls primary school site) has taught his
children HTML and they have created their own web
pages. Click <a
href="http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/allsouls/yr6/yr6.html"
target="_newbie">here</a> to see some examples of his class' pages.
Leon has also created a guide to writing HTML with
young children, which can be found <a
href="http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/allsouls/HTML/how.html"
target="_newbie">here</a>.
Although these pages
are quite basic, as the children progress and learn
new HTML tags, their pages can become more complex
(perhaps including photos, counters, guestbooks,
animations, sounds......).
2. Use an
HTML template. This template contains
all of the necessary HTML to make a page of text. The
children only have to insert their text into the
correct places on the page, and hey presto - they
have made their very own web page!
Again, the pages made
in this way may be quite basic, but they will 
Leon Cych's guide to
writing HTML (see the link above also includes a
suitable HTML template).
3. Use a
web-page creation program. These
programs (such as Microsoft Frontpage Express and
Claris Home Page) work much like a word processor,
and are therefore very easy to use if you are
familiar with word processing (see <a
href="word.htm" target="_newbie">here</a> for more information about using word
processing in the classroom).
An extra advantage of
this kind of software is that they allow children to
create quite complex web pages, without a great deal
of effort (and without learning HTML!).
Mark Robinson (from
Ambleside Primary School) has taught his children how
to make web pages in this way, and you can see an
example of their work <a
href="http://www.ambleside.schoolzone.co.uk/ambleweb/rodent/index.htm"
target="_newbie">here</a>.
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Once your children have
made their web pages, you need to find some way of
getting them onto the net. If you are signed up with an
internet service provider, they may give you some free
web space. If not, there are lots of places on the net
who are eager to provide you with free space. When you
have some webspace of your own, just send your pages up
to the provider (who should provide simple instructions
explaining how to do this).
So, now you know how to
make web pages, what kinds of things can children put on
them?
Click <a
href="makeweb3.htm">here</a> to find out.
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