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While it is possible to generate an HTML page with Word, it's generally recommended that you do not do so if you intend for the page to be used in any professional or widely promotional capacity. Making your own website with Word is like building your own house with LEGO blocks: it works well enough if you don't have the expertise to do a proper job of it, don't want to buy new software or you're just playing around for your own amusement, but using the right tools or even hiring a professional will yield immeasurably better results if you need a professional website.
Word is made for creating paper documents, which have a fixed page size, typeface, and layout, whereas the page size, typeface and layout available to someone viewing your website may be completely different than yours. Because Word is purpose-built for fixed paper formatting, the web page code it creates is loaded with non-standard, paper-based styling which may not appear as you intend it to in any browsers other than Microsoft's own Internet Explorer.
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Load Word.
Type "Homepage" into the page.Advertisement
Click File > Save as Webpage. In Office 2007, click the Office button > Save As >Other Formats.
Save your page as index.html. In 2007, change "Save as type" to "Web Page."
You will see now that the page doesn't look like a normal Word document - you are now in web layout mode.
Add some additional text; try typing "This is my home page."
Save your work frequently (just click the save icon - Word will remember it's a web page.)
Do the same to make the other pages (keep reading to make a hyperlink).
Type "Link to homepage" under the text.
Highlight the text.
Click Insert > Hyperlink (All versions.)
Find index.html.
When you find it, select it and click OK.
Note that you have just created a hyperlink. This means that in a browser you can click that hyperlink and go to another page in your site.
You can add a hyperlink to another website - in the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog, in the "Address" text box, type the address of the web page.
Keep doing this until your website is complete!
Good job making your website. Remember the information in the introduction.
Expert Q&A
- QuestionWhat mistake should I avoid when I create a website?
Tyrone ShowersTyrone Showers is a Technologist and the Co-owner of Taliferro Group, an IT consulting company based in Seattle, Washington. With over 35 years of professional experience, he specializes in API Design, e-Commerce, Operational Efficiency, and website development. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from DeVry Institute of Technology.
TechnologistDon't try to make a beautiful website. Beautiful websites are detrimental to your business. A site that looks amazing with lots of images is annoying to use because the images are slow to load, they are not optimized, and if your site takes too long to load, your user, your potential client, or the buyer will go somewhere else. - QuestionHow do I publish my website I made with Word?
Community AnswerYou would have to find a piece of server software and put your files into the working directory where you want your web page and host it yourself, or you would have to pay for hosting from a provider like GoDaddy and upload the files there. - QuestionHow do I name my website?
Community AnswerWhen you are saving your website, there should be a Change Title button below the File Type menu. Click that, and a dialog box will open asking you to enter a page title. This title will appear as the tab name when visiting the website in a web browser.
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- Except for the index page, name the rest of your pages something you could remember.Thanks
- Make your website attractive with lots of photos, links and information.Thanks
- Learn something called HTMLThanks
Warnings
- If you plan on putting up your site to the web, be careful not to include any personal information you don't intend to release in the document info.Thanks
- As noted in the article header, creating HTML with any Microsoft Office product other than Expression Web is generally a bad idea. Just because a program can save a file as HTML doesn't make it a web design software.Thanks
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- Microsoft Office Word (all versions)
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