Welcome to Easy Home Page 2000

Welcome to Easy Home Page. This page was oribinally built in 1998. Things changed and this is year 2000 version.

My name is Keiko Kawanabe Schneider, and I am a former Japanese Instructor at the University of New Mexico. Now I run a small web deisgn company Saboten Web Design and maintain My Bookmarks. People ask how to make Web pages. So here are my secrets.

Are you afraid of html?

Well, don't. Compared to "other" languages, html is 50 times easier than English, and 100 times easier than Japanese, in my opinion. Very simple and logical. If you want to do something with font, start with<font> and finish with the version with slash</font>.

Always learn from others

When you cruise the Web pages, you can go to View- Document Source or something similar and you can see their html. In fact that is how I learned to put code into this document.

Easiest way: Save as HTML

I hate to say this because I claim myself a Web designer, but actually making a Web page is not difficult at all. You can probably do it from right where you are working from word processing programs. Look at your file menu and see if there is any "Save as HTML" or file-> save as -> and see any option on HTML document. As far as I know, later version of Word, Wordperfect will convert fine even with Japanese in it. (For Word, please caution of unicode, ??? syndrome.)

I still liked Wordperfect best when converting a document to an html file. It write the cleanest code. Free version of Wordperfect for Mac (download from here) lets you save as HTML. This will let you make basic pages, but what I do is click "preview" and it will let you see how it looks on your browser immediately. What I do is View- View Source and get raw html document. Don't worry. All you have to do is sandwich your title in between <title></title> so that you have Title. (Title of this is Easy Home Page. You see it on the VERY top of your browser.) One thing it doesn't do is centering. Just sandwich what you want to center between <center></center>.

Before BBEdit, I used Simple Text (Mac should have it) and that is similar to Notepad in the window side. Choose barebone simple word processor. Big and good ones are too nice and won't let you use as an html editor anymore.

Which html editor?

I have problems with those WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) html editor. I think those are like teaching people quick romanized phrases that can subustitute words, but really don't give you precise grammar control. Although I have to admit, not everybody is interested or have time to learn html. So here are some helpful HTML editors download links.

From PC/Windows download.com Click here to see the list
From Mac download.com Click here to see the list

If you missed it somehow, please go to http://www.download.com and search for "html editor". You will see quite a few.

My personal recommendation of the editor would be Netscape Composer. If you are looking at this page with Netscape 4.0 or later, you should see a little pen icon on the right bottom cornder. This is also powerful html editor. Here are some tutorials. With Langauge Kit, Japanese should show up fine in Mac, and with Global IME, the versions later than 4.72 (not 4.7), Japanese can be input in Windows 95 & 98 even with English system.

Netscape Composer Class
http://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/Resources/Composer/Composermain.htm

How to Build Japanese Homepage by Professor Omoto of University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~yomoto/How/homepage.html

Want to continue? Tryout and Resources
Want to work with my template?
Go back to my Bookmarks

email: kschnei@sabotenweb.com