Designing a website using microsoft word

Design your page as a word document. Format headings, paragraphs and graphics as you want them to appear on your website. Preview the document and fix any formatting that is wrong. Change the margins if necessary to fit text into a single line. Click on the home button at the top of the document. Choose "save file as". Choose the type of webpage that you would like to save. There may be multiple options depending on the version of Word that you are using.

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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Learn why people trust wikiHow. Save your page as index. In , 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. 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. 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.

On the Loop option box, click the number of times you want the track to play from one to five, or infinite. Save the webpage again. There are other things you can create on your webpage by using Microsoft Word by clicking on various features, such as a checkbox, an option button, a drop down box, and a regular text box. Without using the Web Tools toolbox, you can also click Insert and click on Picture, followed by one of the various options, to add a picture, image, or clipart to your webpage.

To add a hyperlink to another webpage or an e-mail address, click insert hyperlink, which looks a little like a globe with a link in front of it, on your main toolbar. You will be given a place to type the actual text you want to appear.

You will be given the option of what you want to link to, such as an existing webpage or one of your files or an e-mail address. You can also choose from a variety of types of fonts by clicking on Format. The types of fonts and sizes for you to choose from will be displayed. You can also choose the color of the text on your webpage by using the same option.

By clicking on Text Effects, you can choose from a variety of effects for the text on your webpage, such as shimmering, sparkling, marching black ants, marching red ants, and others. The "Web Page, Filtered" option creates smaller and more standard web pages that contain only the formatting code understood by web browsers and search engines. This additional code is hopefully ignored by web browsers and search engines, but is used interally by Word when you open that same file again to edit it.

If the additional code is not present, when you reopen the file in Word, you may not be able to use some of Word's features on your document in the usual way. For example, some facilities may be disabled.

In view of this, unless you know what you're doing, you probably should save it as "Web Page". It will probably also be more bloated than it needs to be.

Click it. A dialog box, called "Set Page Title", will appear. This page title is the title of your web page that you see in the search engine listings of your website.

It also appears in the top menu bar of the browser window when you view your web page in a web browser. It is not displayed in your document, but is an important part of a web page. Next, if you use Word or , click the "Tools" button at the bottom of the dialog box, and select "Web Options".

It's probably already selected by default in Word , but you may want to still want to check to make sure, just in case. Before you proceed, notice that Word has changed your filename to add ". For example, if you typed "index", the file will now be called "index. Change it so that the ending is ".

That is, if Word has changed it to "index. Word saves your file along with an additional folder containing any embedded pictures you have in your document as well as some other data. You will have to publish both your file and this additional folder and its contents to your website.

Since Word doesn't have a built-in facility to publish your web page, you will have to use a separate program to do this. As mentioned earlier, such a program is called an FTP client. Note: this assumes that you have already signed up for a web host and all the other things associated with website publishing. This guide doesn't deal with those aspects. Otherwise, when you read the Filezilla tutorial, you'll wonder what I'm talking about when I mention "web host". Publishing a website using Word or Office isn't really ideal.

You have to make do with a lot of limitations. However, in a pinch, it is possible to create a rudimentary web page if you need to. All rights reserved.