Welcome to the World Wide Web!
The Internet as we
know it—the World Wide Web—was developed at the CERN particle
physics laboratory in
Geneva, Switzerland in 1989. In January 1993
there were only 50 Web servers online. 1993 was also the year that the first alpha
version of the
Mosaic browser was tested.
In 1995 only 8.4 million
adults used the Internet in the United States. Now, that figure is
well over 1 Billion. No other invention—not the car, the radio, or
the television has swept the market as quickly.
It is, indeed, a
revolution.
Web Page Authoring
Web pages are built with HTML- hypertext markup language. This format
provides a standardized set of code for Internet browsers. Microsoft Word is a web authoring program: it will write the HTML
code for us.
Design Web Pages with Tables
Web pages
use Tables to keep the layout consistent. A Table is a Table is a Table. This is true whether the Table
is created in MS Word, Dreamweaver or hand-typed HTML programming.
Microsoft Word has several Table Tools to get us started.