Designing and creating a website
Newcomers activity - Creating a website

Follow these steps if you have never created a website before and you wish to re-create a simple two-page site similar to the Sinethemba website.

Click here to see an example of the Sinethemba website

Follow these steps to complete these activities. You may prefer to write your own content

• Create a folder for the website. Name the folder web. All files in this activity should be saved in this folder.
  
• Start Front Page with a new blank page.
  
  

How to start Front Page

• Select Heading 1 from the style selection menu. Type in the name of your home page - just like Sinethemba Senior Secondary School. Then press Enter.
  

The style selection box (just below the File menu) will say "None" or "Normal" until you click it.

• Now insert a table with one row and two columns (just two blocks side by side).

How to insert a table

• In the left-hand cell (block) of the table type in italics your version of ...the beacon of hope for upliftment.
  
• Click in the right-hand cell (block) and insert a graphic. If you do not have one for yourself then you will find the image called sin1 in the /images folder on the CD (the CD drive is likely to be the D: drive). The image should be copies to the web folder.

How to insert a graphic

• Click anywhere below the table on the page. Create a bullet list (click on the bullet list icon).
  
• Type The history of the school.
  
• Save this file in the web folder and call it index.htm.
  

How to insert a bullet list

How to save a file

• Create a new blank file by clicking on the File menu and then clicking on New. Just type the word history in the new document and then save the file in the web folder with the name history. Close the file called history.htm.
  

• Return to the page called index.htm.
  
• Link to another web page by selecting The history of the school in the bullet list and link to the file called history.htm.
  
• Now save index again.

How to create a link to another web page

• Open your web page (index.htm) in a web browser and click on the link to see if it works. Go to Internet Explorer (or the browser that you use) and open the file called index.