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I'm just learning HTML but don't yet have any webspace.

What I'd like to know is: if I create a web page in Word, is there any
way I can see what it looks like on my computer's browser (Microsoft
Internet Explorer) without actually publishing it on the Web?

Any advice would be most welcome.

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:33:35 -0700, dave black wrote:

> if I create a web page in Word

For the love of dog and all things good in this world, please please
please, I beg you, DON'T USE WORD TO CREATE WEB PAGES!!!

Arraraarrgh! <runs away screaming>

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:33:35 -0700, dave black wrote:

> What I'd like to know is: if I create a web page in Word, is there any
> way I can see what it looks like on my computer's browser (Microsoft
> Internet Explorer) without actually publishing it on the Web?

And now, a real answer: "Yes".

Just open the created "HTML"[1] document in MSIE (or browser of your
choice).

Example:

(1) Create Word doc.
(2) Export as HTML (File->Save as web page (or something like that))
(3) Open exported HTML doc in MSIE. MSIE->File->Open->[browse to html
file and select it]

It is really quite easy.

The other way to open it is to browse to the HTML file in Windows Explorer
(NOT "Internet Explorer"), and double click on it. It should open in your
default browser.

But of course, this stuff is OS related, and not really HTML related at
all, now, is it?

later...






[1] "HTML" in quotes, because as we all[2] know, MS Word does not really
create HTML.

[2] Well, "we all" as in "we all *professional web developers*". Clearly,
amateurs and newbs do not know this.

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"JDS" <> wrote in message
news d...
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:33:35 -0700, dave black wrote:
>
>> if I create a web page in Word
>
> For the love of dog and all things good in this world, please please
> please, I beg you, DON'T USE WORD TO CREATE WEB PAGES!!!
>
> Arraraarrgh! <runs away screaming>
>

Please buy a book (or google html tutorial) on html 4.01 and CSS. Use
notepad to start you off with. save your files as anything.htm then just
double click on them and you'll see them in your default browser(IE,
fireworks whatever)

dave black wrote:
> I'm just learning HTML but don't yet have any webspace.
>
> What I'd like to know is: if I create a web page in Word, is there any
> way I can see what it looks like on my computer's browser (Microsoft
> Internet Explorer) without actually publishing it on the Web?

Print it out, shred it, scan the remains and look at that.

Word is an _awful_ web editor. It's bad at making pages and you
certainly won't learn anything by using it. Almost anything (even
Frontplague!) would be better.

Instead, use a simple text editor if you want to learn HTML.
Use Dreamweaver if you're rich and don't want to learn anything.
If you want something easy (DW ish) but cheap, then there are plenty of
downloadables every bit as good as DW (for almost all users).



As to seeing your pages locally, then the best way is to get a web
server. If you have broadband, then just use one out on the web - it's
as quick as a local machine.

If you don't have this, then set one up on a spare redundant PC. Good
time to learn Apache / Ubuntu install and config

If all that's too scary, then as a bare minimum you can simply use the
pages as files on your local disk.

the file
c:\work\my_web_stuff\index.htm

works fine as
file:///c:/work/my_web_stuff/index.htm
in your browser

Be warned though, this isn't _exactly_ the same as using a web server.
There are subtle issues about "HTTP headers" you don't care about yet,
but there are bigger risks if you use an "easy to use" web editor (we
see many people fall down the same hole, then ask here what went
wrong).

An image tag on the page works fine as
<img src="photos/my_cat.jpg" >

however many editors might create this as
<img src="c:\work\my_web_stuff\photos\my_cat.jpg" >
assuming it's a local file and so that's what you want. When you
finally upload this to a real server, then it's not a valid URL -- your
local C:\ drive means nothing to the web server.

You _can_ develop big websites on local filesystems. But if you're
beginning, then you're likely to get confused by the URL / path issues
in a way that doesn't happen when you use a real web server (or at
least it's instant and obvious what went wrong).

Once upon a time *Andy Dingley* wrote:
> dave black wrote:
>> I'm just learning HTML but don't yet have any webspace.
>>
>> What I'd like to know is: if I create a web page in Word, is there any
>> way I can see what it looks like on my computer's browser (Microsoft
>> Internet Explorer) without actually publishing it on the Web?
>
> Word is an _awful_ web editor.

It's not even that, it's a word processor!

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/Arne

"I travel cross the country and talked to the most competent persons,
and I can assure you that the computer is a fashion craze that will not
stand the whole year.
(Editor for business literature, Prentice Hall, 1957)

In message < .com>, dave
black <> writes
>I'm just learning HTML but don't yet have any webspace.
>
>What I'd like to know is: if I create a web page in Word, is there any
>way I can see what it looks like on my computer's browser (Microsoft
>Internet Explorer) without actually publishing it on the Web?
>
>Any advice would be most welcome.

Don't use Word! It's probably the worst package you could use to create
a web page.

If it's just a simple web page could save it and load it into your
browser to view it.

Or you could run your own remote web server. There's one free here:
<http://www.aprelium.com/>
--
Martin Jay

JDS wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:33:35 -0700, dave black wrote:
>
>> if I create a web page in Word
>
> For the love of dog and all things good in this world, please please
> please, I beg you, DON'T USE WORD TO CREATE WEB PAGES!!!
>
> Arraraarrgh! <runs away screaming>

Word HTML and posting from Google Groups. It's a perfect fit.

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:56:05 -0700, Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Word HTML and posting from Google Groups. It's a perfect fit.

What is wrong with posting from Google Groups?

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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Word HTML and posting from Google Groups. It's a perfect fit.

Is it really necessary for you to be so snooty?

The OP freely admits to being a beginner. Is he supposed to know by
some sort of magic that the use of Microsoft Word for creating what
claims to be HTML, or of Google Groups for accessing Usenet, are
(rightfully) criticised for a number of reasons? I suppose that you're
going to tell me that there are numerous threads and web pages that can
be found by searching that state your point of view. But if someone
doesn't know that there's a problem, why would they look for
information about it?!

I'm quite sure that there are plenty of things that you might do in
your life that you are not an expert at, and would be done in a manner
that a professional would see as deficient. Maybe a racing car driver
might criticise how you drive your own car, for example. Perhaps a
professional chef might have a better way of preparing your favourite
meal. Does any of this make you somehow less of a person? The answer,
of course, is "no", and that applies equally to someone who doesn't
know any better when they take their first stumbling steps in your
field.


Of course, I'm well aware that the person to whom I'm responding won't
see this post due to his filtering policies. Perhaps I should find a
newsreader that can somehow filter out pointlessly snide remarks from
people, and then we'll both be happy.

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AGw.