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From: Mike Stiger
Category: Website
Date: 11/19/03
Time: 5:53:04 PM
Remote Name: 24.56.228.80
Carol,
Whether it’s your Newsletter or a website it can be frustrating working with HTML language. I know what you mean about navigating between pages. I had the same trouble. What helped me was to understand how the web works and what a hyperlink used for. When we create a document with publisher or word we create a continuous string of pages that are linked one after another. However the web doesn’t work that way. It works one page at a time. It would be like creating your newsletter in word and have each page saved to a different file. You would need a method of linking one file to another so the reader could go to and from each page of your newsletter. That is what a hyperlink is. It allows a user to go from one file (page) to the next. Let’s say you are using a program like publisher to create your newsletter. When you use the “Create Web Site” feature you are basically breaking up your newsletter pages into separate files. So if your newsletter is 8 pages long it will create your first page, which is always index.htm and then page2.htm, page3.htm and so forth. Since they are now separate files you need to create hyperlinks between the pages so a user can go from one page to the next. Of course this is something you want to do before you publish the document. I hope this helps. Perhaps others would like to ad to this.