Lesson II Continued
The Index Page Is The Front Door
The front door to a website by default is known as the index page. A default or index page from any website
can be brought up two different ways. A basic web address can be keyed in such as:
http://www.ksurf.net.
It would bring up the same website if you keyed in:
If http://www.ksurf.net/index.html
because the index is the default page.
The index page is the cover page which primary use is to contain the greeting/introduction and table of
contents to the website.
- Write a welcome and maybe a simple introduction to the website.
- List all the hyperlinks to the other pages in the site.
Creation of the default index is just like building any other page. Open the html template document
with notepad. Code the page. Save this document as index.html and upload it to the webspace via FTP
Displaying Example HTML Coding On A Webpage
Coding a webpage consists of brackets which encapsules attributes and values.
These tags contain the commands telling the browser what to display.
The actual webpage does not show the brackets or the commands in them.
In order to show a tag example for instruction, special characters
must be used in a line of coding which will tell the browser to show the tag example.
These characters are called ISO character sets. The ISO stands for International Standards
Organization.
&
l
t
;These characters demonstrate a left side bracket on the web page: <
&
g
t
; These characters demonstrate a right sice bracket on the web page: >
This group of characters need an opening and closing set.
&
n
b
s
p
;
Non Breaking space Character Code. These can be placed one per non breaking space.
(All these characters must be placed next to each other to create the desired effect.)
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