You do not have to know how to use HTML to make great Web pages in Web Factory. With Web Factory you work in a "WYSIWYG" (what you see is what you get) window, and never have to see the HTML tags

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. If you were to make a Web page the old-fashioned way, you would type the text in a simple text editor such as Notepad, then "mark up" that text with "tags" that tell the Web browser (like Netscape Navigator) how to display the text and images on your Web page. To format text and add other elements such as hypertext links, images, and horizontal rules all require special HTML tags. Even to indent a paragraph in HTML requires a tag. Pressing the Tab key, as you would in a word processor, simply does not work.

For example, to bold the words "Web Factory" using HTML, type a bold tag, which looks like <b> before the word Web and an end bold tag, which looks like </b> after the word Factory. Any text after Factory would not be bold. The HTML result would look like: Web Factory.

Web Factory has made the process of creating Web pages much easier. You do not have to know any HTML tags or how to properly place them in the text. We at Thunder & Lightning Company assume that you know how to use a simple word processor, and have designed Web Factory to be as easy to use as a word processor. You just type in your text and format it as you would in a word processor, and insert images, movies, sound and more through easy-to-use menus. Web Factory supplies the appropriate HTML tags in the "source code", which is the *.htm or *.html file that you will post to a Web server, and that millions of Web surfers will see in their Web browsers.

Web Factory supports versions 2.x and 3.x of the Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer browser tags, and displays a preview window of your HTML based on their respective versions.