Most companies are working within a tight marketing budget. One of the best ways to advertise is through the World Wide Web. Web sites are analogous to an information storehouse running 24 hours a day on the Internet, however you must provide interesting content to draw your users into exploring your Web site. The price for running a Web server pays for itself in the long term, hance the need for a good operating system to allow you to quickly add interactive content to your HTML files without any hassle.

Figure 14.4: Event Viewer: System Log

When dealing with other operating systems, it is always necessary to train your users in detail regarding the methods to alter the existing HTML files on your Web server. Adding content was somewhat complex, however the advent of NT 5.0's GUI interface changes all that. The time you spend training users is reduced greatly and you now have the benefit of altering your Web site files as often as you like without difficulty.

In order to prepare your information to be published, you need to know how to work with your HTML or HyperText Markup Language files. Basically an HTML file is really an ASCII text file with special codes embedded in the text to tell the Internet browser how to format all of the information and how to identify hypertext links.

In order to author an HTML file, you can use any given text editor. However, it is far easier to...