How to Set Up a Web Site for Your Local ASNT Section
HTML Basics
The easiest and most popular format to use in creating Web pages is Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. It's a system of tags attached to text that instruct a Web server how to display the text to readers viewing the pages with Web browser software. The HTML tags can also be used to incorporate graphics, sound, video and links to other pages inside and outside of your Web site. Here is the most basic form that an HTML document takes:
<html>
<title>The Page's Title</title>
<body>
This is where the visible text goes, along with HTML tags to format the text, or to add pictures.
</body>
</html>The example above is a complete, though very simple, Web page. All that will display in a browser loading this page is the sentence "This is where the visible text goes, along with HTML tags to format the text, or to add pictures." The rest is coding for the Web server program to execute. Many other HTML tags can be added to create a more sophisticated page: some tags function like word processing formatting, and others are specific functions of the Internet.
Software: HTML files are plain text files. You can edit them with a simple text editor such as Windows Notepad, use a word processor, or purchase an HTML editor such as Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PageMill, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. These editors will offer lots of aids and tag templates, and will also allow you to toggle between a view of the source code and a view of what will display to Web browsers.
On our Links to Additional Resources page, we've included some links to HTML tutorials. We've also included a suggested HTML page template for ASNT local Sections, which you may freely download and use on your site (ASNT local Sections only).
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