Word includes a Web Page Wizard that walks you through the process of creating a web site. With the Web Page Wizard, you can create a sophisticated site with several linked pages.  However, because it is sophisticated, it is also complicated.  Without some knowledge of HTML, it will be difficult for you to edit pages created this way.  Some pre-planning can help you avoid frustration and make good use of this tool.

Before using the Web Page Wizard, plan your site.  Figure out what pages you want on your site and give them names.  Once you have created a site using the Web Page Wizard, it will be difficult to change the basic pages, so give this careful thought.  The following are some of the pages you may want to create:

1. Home/Introduction
2. Main content page
3. Separate pages for different parts of your content
4. Bibliography and/or Links

Decide the filename and title for each page before you begin.

To access the Web Page Wizard, open Microsoft Word, then click File-->New-->Web Pages-->Web Page Wizard. Then follow the instructions.  The different steps are 

1. Title and Location: Give the site a title following the naming conventions outlined in File Management.  Figure out where you want to keep the file(s).  If you are working at home, you may want to keep the site on your hard drive.  If you are working in a campus computer lab, make sure you save the site to a floppy disk (the A:\ drive). Click Browse to change the location.
2. Navigation: The separate pages of your site should be linked. The Web Page Wizard provides three options: vertical frame, horizontal frame, or separate pages. NOTE: Frames provide an elegant way to navigate among pages; however, they also make adding pages and links harder.
3. Add pages to your web site: Make sure you put all the pages you need here.  Don't worry about names yet.  However, you should include your paper among the pages. Click Add Existing File to find your paper.  Click on it, click Open, and the Web Page Wizard will make a copy of your paper, convert it to a web page, and save it into the folder containing the web site.
4. Organize the navigation links to your Web pages: Put the pages in the order you want them to appear in the navigation links, and give them the names you want them to have.
5. Visual Theme: You can jazz up your site by adding a theme. Click Browse Themes to see the available templates. Click on the names of themes to see what they look like. When you have found the theme you want, click OK.
6. Finish. That's all you have to do!  Click Finish to view the completed web.

The Web Page Wizard creates a home page that includes placeholders for the kinds of information commonly found on a personal home page: Work Information, Personal Interests, etc. You will probably not want all of that information in your class project.  However, don't delete the placeholders until you have figured out what you do want on the home page.  You can edit the headings and bookmarks to reflect what you want to appear on the home page. See Bookmarks on the Creating Web Pages for instructions.

If you have followed internet convention in naming files, the links in your navigation frame may not be descriptive.  You can edit them to make them more user-friendly. Just right-click on the link, click Hyperlink-->Edit Hyperlink, then change the Text to Display.

To add a page to your web site, do the following:

1. Create a new web page and save it into the same folder as the other pages in your site.
2. From within Microsoft Word, open the page called <default.htm>.  Click in the navigation area and type the text of the link you want to create.
3. Highlight the text, then click Insert-->Hyperlink. Click Browse for File and find the file you want to link.  Click OK.

Created by John I. Brooks III. Last updated 01/01/04.
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