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Basic Web Page Writing
Troubleshooting and Comments

This section will point out some common problems you may encounter. It will not answer all your questions since there are may things that can go wrong.

General Information

Since there are many browsers available and each one has it's own special features, some of your web pages may appear differently on different browsers. This entire guide was created using NETSCAPE v2.0. In most cases if a browser doesn't recognize a particular tag it will ignore it, which may change the way your page is viewed by others. Also some browsers will not currently display tables, so you may need be careful when using them in your page.

Troubleshooting

1. Be careful of spelling.
   Typing SCR instead of SRC in the IMG SRC tag for example will not cause the image to be displayed.
2. Be sure the files and images you call in your document are in the correct directory.
3. Avoid overlapping tags:
   For example: <B> <I> This is bold and Italic<B><I>
   would have tags that are overlapped. It should work fine but a better way would be to keep start and end tags together.
   This would be a better way to write the above:
   <B> <I> This is bold and Italic<I><B>
4. Do not embed HTML tags in Anchors:
   <H2><A HREF="FILENAME.HTM">Test</A></H2>
   is better then
   <A HREF="FILENAME.HTM"><H2>Test</H2></A>
5. Be sure that you include an end tag for every tag that needs one.
6. Look for missing < or > brackets in your typing.
7. Check to see that filenames have ".." around them>
8. Check that filenames are typed in lowercase.
9. Check out each of your links before placing your page on the net.
   This can be done by opening your browser and opening the file from the hard disk, then test each link to see that each works correctly.
10. Check out each page before uploading it to the net.

These are some of the common errors you may find. Using a HTML editor may eliminate some of these, especially now that you know how to format HTML tags!!.

Comments

I hope that you found this guide helpful and easy to follow. I know that in the process of creating it I also learned a lot about creating web pages for myself. If you found this guide useful, please drop me a note at:

l_curreri@yahoo.com

I'd like to hear from you.