if your operating system fitsyou might download kompozerif you are not already using another environment that lets you see both the unformatted plain text and the formatted view an alternative for the simple markup needed for exercises is to modify example html source code using the ideas in html source markup (page introduction to static pages in kompozer if you cannot run kompozeryou can see the parallel html source discussion in html source markup (page )and skip this section that is specifically on kompozer this section introduces the kompozer web page editor to create static pages static page is one that is created ahead of time and just opened and used as needed this is as opposed to dynamic pagewhich is custom page generated by software on demandgiven some input parameters you can open kompozer and easily generate document with headingand italic and boldfaced portions kompozer is used because it is free softwareand is pretty easy to uselike common word processor unlike common word processor you will be able to easily look at the html markup code underneath it is not necessary to know lot about the details of the markup codes for html files to use kompozerbut you can see the results of the markup we will use static pages later as part of making dynamic pagesusing the static pages as templates in which we insert data dynamically to creating static web pages however you start kompozergo to the menu in kompozer and select file new you will get what looks like an empty document look at the bottom of your window you should see normal tab selectedwith other choices beside itincluding source tab click on the source tab you should see thatthough you have added no contentyou already have the basic markup to start an html page click again on the normal tab to go back to the normal view (of no content at the moment assume you are making home page for yourself make title and some introductory text use regular word processor features like marking your title as heading in the drop down box on menu bar (the drop down menu may start off displaying 'paragraphor 'body textyou can select text and make it bold or italicsenlarge it using the editing menu or icons before getting too carried awaysave your document as home html in the existing www directory under your earlier python examples it will save lot of trouble if you keep your web work together in this www directorywhere have already placed number of files that you will want to keep together in one directory just for comparisonswitch back and forth between the normal and source views to see all that has gone on underneath your viewparticularly if you edited the format of your text somewhere embedded in the source view you should see all the text you entered some individual characters have special symbols in html that start with an ampersand and end with semicolon againit is more important the understand that there are two different views than to be able to reproduce the source view from memory you can use your web browser to see how your file looks outside the editor the easiest way to do this is to go to the web browser' menu and select something like file open fileand find the home html file that you just wrote it should look pretty similar to the way it looked in kompozerbut if you had put in hyperlinksthey should now be active the discussion of web page editing continues in editing html forms (page )but first we get python into the act web page basics