SOYOUWANNA DESIGN YOUR OWN WEB PAGE?

6. PREVIEW YOUR DOCUMENT IN A BROWSER

You'll now want to see how your document looks in a web browser, and to check if your code has any errors that keep the page from loading properly. First SAVE your document in the directory we've created. If it ain't saved, it'll be tough to read. Once your document is saved, you'll open up your browser. Your browser is probably set to go out on the web as soon as it's opened; you'll want it to start on a blank page instead. To accomplish this, you'll have to figure out which of these four groups you belong to:

To set this up on newer versions of Navigator

Open the Options menu and scroll down to General Preferences. Click on the Appearance tab, and in the list of Start Up options, select "Start with Blank Page."

To set this up on older versions of Navigator

Open the Options menu and select Preferences; then scroll down to the Style tab and set the browser for "Start with Blank Page."

To set this up on newer versions of Internet Explorer

Open the Tools menu, and then scroll down to click on Internet Options. . . Under the tab marked General, in the "Home page" box, click on the button marked "Use Blank."

To set this up on older versions of Internet Explorer

It appears that you have to just hit Cancel when the browser attempts to go online to get a blank page in your browser window.

Under File, choose Open (Navigator) or Open File (Internet Explorer). Select the HTML document from your directory (which should still be on your desktop) and click OK. Your document should now be displayed as a web page in your browser window (even though it's not really out on the World Wide Web).

If your page doesn't look the way you hoped it would, you'll want go back to the text editor to recheck your code for errors or spots you could improve.