1.3. Steps to Publish a Document on the Web

Three main steps are involved in posting a document to the WWW:

1.
Create an HTML document.
2.
Place the document in a Web-accessible location.
3.
Verify that the HTML is legal and results in the presentation you had in mind.

These steps are explained more thoroughly in the following sections.

Create the Document

Since HTML is formed with normal ASCII text, you can create an HTML document with a text editor, such as Notepad, UltraEdit, emacs, or BBEdit. You can also create documents with an HTML editor, such as HomeSite, FrontPage, or Dreamweaver, or by using a utility that converts an existing word processor document to HTML, such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. Since HTML is primarily a logical markup ...

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