Creating a Webpage

by **Admin** Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:45 am

Create an HTML file

An HTML file is simply a text file saved with an .html or .htm extension (i.e. as opposed to a .txt extension).

Open
up your computer's normal plain text editor (this will probably be
Notepad if you're using Windows or TextEdit if you're using a Mac). You
could use a specialized HTML editor such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage if
you prefer.
Create a new file (if one wasn't already created)
Save the file as html_tutorial_example.html

Type some HTML code

Type the following code:

Code:: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>HTML Tutorial Example</title> </head> <body> <p>Less than 5 minutes into this HTML tutorial and I've already created my first homepage!</p> </body> </html>

View the result in your browser

Either...
1. Navigate to your file then double click on it
...OR...
1. Open up your computer's web browser (for example, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape etc).
2. Select
  File > Open, then click "Browse". A dialogue box will appear
  prompting you to navigate to the file. Navigate to the file, then
  select "Open".
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Repeat the last 2 steps until you're satisfied with the result

It's
unrealistic to expect that you will always get it right the first time
around. Don't worry - that's OK! Just try again and again - until you
get it right.