Using Filemaker HomePage Using Filemaker HomePage is a lot like using a word processor. Think of it as word processing for the Web. Think of it as a primitive, clunky word processor for the Web, however, because you will find that it is harder to get things to look the way you want them to than it is in MS Word. The reason for this is that the placement of images and text and the control of colors and paragraphs and so on are controlled by embedding in the text what are known as HTML tags. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.
Tags are brief commands about page placement and so on that are embedded in the text of a document.
If you've memorized all these commands, you can simply create your Web pages in a plain text file, using a program like Apple's Simple Text. While HTML coding is not especially hard to learn, it is the kind of thing you are not likely to remember unless you are doing a lot of it regularly. Fortunately, there are starting to be more and more programs like Claris HomePage that make the process easy enough for those of us who don't wish to be computer professionals. You can expect that these programs are going to get better as they evolve. We only have time in this class to scratch the surface, anyway, but I am hoping that it will be sufficient to get you started on a learning curve that you can continue, should you wish to do so.