How to Build a Website in Word

By Bennett Gavrish

  • Overview

    Professional web designers typically use applications like Adobe Dreamweaver to build websites, but less technical people can design webpages with word processors like Microsoft Word. Word allows users to write basic HTML code, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, and then save their documents as .html files. Once placed on an active web server, these pages of code will be read by web browsers to create a website.

    • Step 1

      Open the Microsoft Word application from the Start menu on a PC or the Dock on a Mac.

    • Step 2

      Go to "File" in the top menu bar and select "New." Then choose to create a blank document.

    • Step 3

      Type <html> </html> in the blank document. This HTML tags will notify web browsers that your site is using HTML code.

    • Step 4

      Enter <head><title>My Website</title></head> in between the HTML tags from Step 3 and replace "My Website" with a name for your new webpage.

    • Step 5

      Type <body> </body> after the title code and place any desired HTML elements in between the body tags. These elements can include paragraphs of text, images or hyperlinks.

    • Step 6

      Go to "File" in the top menu bar and select "Save as Web Page." Then name the file and click "OK."

    • Step 7

      Place the saved file onto your active web server. This webpage will now be visible on all web browsers.
    • Skill: Moderately Easy
    • Ingredients:
    • PC or Mac computer
    • Microsoft Word 2003 or later
    • Active web server

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