Did you know that you can use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to create Web pages? In this lesson, we’re going to talk about the basics of creating a Web page.

Creating a Web page is a bit more complicated than creating a document. The text and graphics you see on a Web page are actually entered using various codes; each code represents a part of that page; for example, an action or a formatting component. Writing Web pages from scratch using code can be hard since you can’t see what results your code will produce. That’s why many programs, like Word, let you create Web pages just like you would a document and then make the coding for you. This way, you don’t need to touch HTML coding if you don’t want to. (Of course, if you know HTML you can use it to add extra touches to your Web site.) Obviously, using Word to create a Web page is much easier than learning HTML code or another Web coding program. You already know how to insert graphics, create effects, and type and format text in Word, so it will be a lot quicker to use those tools to create your Web site.

There are many types of coding you can use for Web pages. For our purposes, we’re going to focus on the most commonly used format: HyperText Markup Language. This format, called HTML, is what most simple Web pages are based on.

We’ve got a lot of cool stuff to learn, so let’s get started!