Planning for designing web pages with HTML.
Breaking Up Your Content into Main Topics
With your goals in mind, try to organize your content into
main topics or sections, chunking related information together under a single
topic.
Ideas for Organization and Navigation
At this point, you should have
a good idea of what you want to talk about as well as a list of topics. The
next step is to actually start structuring the information you have into a set
of web pages. Before you do that, however, consider some standard structures
that have been used in other help systems and online tools. This section
describes some of these structures, their various features, some important
considerations, including the following Model and Structure of a Web site:
You need to know what the following terms mean and how they
apply to the body of work you're developing for the Web:
Website: A
collection of one or more web pages linked together in a meaningful way that,
as a whole, describes a body of information or creates an overall effect.
Web server: A
computer on the Internet or an intranet that delivers Web pages and other files
in response to browser requests.
Web page: A
single document on a website, usually consisting of an HTML document and any
items that are displayed within that document such as inline images.
Home page: The
entry page for a website, which can link to additional pages on the same
website or pages on other sites.
