Introduction to Web Publishing
Web pages are available to individuals outside mass media. In order to publish a web page, one
does not have to go through a publisher or other media institution, and potential readers could be
found in all corners of the globe.
Unlike books and other documents, hypertext does not need to have a linear order from beginning
to end. It is not necessarily broken down into the hierarchy of chapters, sections, subsections, and so
on.
The increased opportunity to publish materials is certainly observable in the countless personal
pages, as well as pages by families, small shops, etc. It means that there is in Web plenty of
uninterested or technically low-grade published data and it’s mainly frustrating for the user to get
acquainted with sites of that kind.
Browsing the Web is so easy and quick for users that a site needs to be convincing with its contents
and structure at first glance for getting the visitors to get acquainted with the information provided.
Creating Web Pages
Languages used for creating web pages:
HTML
Defining the structure and writing the content
CSS
Creating the appearance
JavaScript
Creating extra functionality
The contents and structure of web pages are created with HTML. The HTML documents consist of
the following two factors:
1. Structure
2. Content
The appearance of web pages is created with CSS. The browsers displaying web pages may render
CSS differently, so the appearance of a web page may differ between browsers. Some Web
browsers to be taken into account when creating Web pages are:
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Graphical for PC
o Internet Explorer
o Firefox
o Opera
o Chrome
o Safari
Graphical for Mobile
o Opera Mobile
o BlackBerry Browser
o Firefox for mobile
Text-based
o Lynx
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