Designing and creating a website
7. Content population

By now you have created a template and a home page. Most of the hard work of creating a web site is now over. The major job that lies ahead is to populate your blank content pages with content.

You will write the content in the template page and then overwrite the blank, temporary content page by saving the content-filled template page under the name of that content file.

Follow these steps to complete these activities. Look for contexts that are meaningful to you in your classroom.

Work on your own (90 minutes).

• For each major content file that you have created do the following:
  
  
  • open the template file
  • add content to the file
  • save the file under a new name - use the same name as the existing temporary content file, thereby overwriting the blank content file with a file that has the designed template and content.
    
    
• If you wish to link to other files or web sites, create hyperlinks as applicable.

How pages can link to each other.

How to link to another web page.

How to link to another website.

How to link to an email address.

How to create an image map.

Work on your own (30 minutes)

• Browse to your web site in the web browser
• Check your links
• Check the accuracy of your typing and spelling

You will continue to change and add to your content for as long as your website exists, so focus on writing only the essential content at this stage.