The Home Environment - Communicating With Text and Graphics

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Estate Agent's Website - Communicating with Text and Graphics

As well as using leaflets to give details to customers about properties that are for sale a good way of making this information available is by using a web site.

Your next task will involve creating a web site.

CLICK HERE to see an example of one that Mr. Lowe has started for you to look at.

You are going to make 3 pages and keep them in a folder of their own.

First of all make a folder in your Yr8 ict folder in My Documents.

Call the folder "estate agent's web site"

(COPY AND PASTE A VERSION OF YOUR ESTATE AGENT'S LOGO IN TO THIS FOLDER)

The first page that you are going to create for you website is the page that has details about a house for sale. Perhaps use the same one that you did a leaflet for.

The second page will be a one that has a list of properties for sale and the third page will be the Estate Agent's Home Page.

Once you have created these pages you will then link them together using Hyper Links

Instructions to Start Page One.

We will use a web page editing programme called Front Page (Start / All Programs / Core Programs)
Click on the top left hand button on the tool bar to create a new normal page.
Click on the Format menu and choose Background... Select a colour for the Background

When you make a web page you can not just drag pictures and text in to places that you want them.
One way to get things in the position that you want them is to use tables

I suggest that you insert two tables to begin with.
One with one row and one column of cells
Then inside this table insert a table with one row and two columns of cells

You can make the borders of the tables invisible so that you do not see them in the finished web page

Setting up a table

Click on the Table Menu / Insert / Table
Change the next window to show how many rows and columns of cells you want
Change the Border Size to 0 if you want the borders invisible
Change the Cell padding to 5 and leave the Cell spacing at 2 (more on this later)
Click on OK

When you have set up the page with the background colour that you want and two tables as described above you can insert your logo at the top of the page and some text like my example shown below in the other cell

Save this page in your estate agent's website folder and call it "property page"

You can now add the rest of the information that you want to say about your house for sale like in my example.

Remember to check for mistakes and to make sure that the information is clear and easy to read.

I suggest you use two font types maximum.

You are now ready to make the second page in your Web Site - The House List Page

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