World Wide Web (WWW)

The Web allows you to view documents that combine text, images, sounds, movies, and links to other web pages. To access the Web, you need to use a Web Browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. To make your own web page, you will have to either learn HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and use any text editor you want (such as pico in unix or BBEdit Lite with html extenstions on a Mac) or use an HTML-editor such as any of the following:

• AOL Press (PC)
• Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word (PC)
• Adobe PageMill (Mac or PC)
• Visual Page (Mac or PC)

If you don't know HTML (the HyperText Mark-up Language used for Web documents), the best documentation is available online at these Web addresses:

• Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Basic HTML Templates
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• Compact Index of HTML tags

Another good way to learn HTML quickly is to view the source of other pages on the web. If you're browsing a page that you like, you can look at the HTML version of it to see how the effects were achieved. If you're using Netscape, select "Source..." from the View menu. In Mosaic, make sure that "Enable view source" is selected under the Options... menu and select "View source" from the File menu.