What Makes a Webpage

A webpage consists of meaningful words, like these ones I hope! But they also contain a number of special tags that tell the web browser how to display them. These Special Tags, along with some other bits and peices, are what makes up HTML or Hypertext Text Markup Language.

That's the simple version!

You can liken a Webpage to any other kind of document, except that these documents live on Web Servers and you view them with a Web Browser.

They also consist of sections. Some of those are to help your Web Browser figure out what is going on, some help your website get ranked on the search engines and the other bits, are there to actually show something.

That "something" can be Text, Images, Videos or Audios. In fact a whole range of different multimedia can be incorporated into a Webpage and that is what makes them so wonderful.

That's assuming that what you are seeing or hearing is of interest to you!

You can see a short video where I explain the very simple basics of a Webpage -
Simple HTML Explained- Video

Images

This is a subject that many people that create a webpage for the 1st time, don't take into consideration. So hopefully you will!

Keep in mind that everything that lives on your Web Host is using Diskspace and and all that is sent to your visitors is using Bandwidth. So it's important to keep things as small in size as possible.

I'm not going to go into any great details here but - most images on websites do not need to be thousands of Kbytes in size. They need to be as big as they need to be. The most common forms of Images types are GIF's, JPG's (J pegs) and PNG's. The most common being JPG's as they can still show a lot of details once they are compressed. Please don't take a Photo from your Digital Camera and upload it, and then try to resize it on the webpage. Reduce the images size to what you want and if you can - reduce the DPI (Dots Per Inch) to 96 DPI. This is all that is needed to view an image on a Screen.

So how do you make a Webpage?

Well this whole website has been written in a simple Text Editor with me manually entering the HTML or Markup as I go. It's much harder to figure out what to write than how to turn it into a webpage, but then I've been doing this for a while. It's also PHP templated with my own little system, but that's a story for another day.

If you find anything on this site that is not working properly, broken or just plain wrong - you are most welcome to contact me