by Meghan Whitmore
To begin, create a
folder that will hold all the files affiliated with your
web page. This is where you will save the work that you can do so
you can find it easily later.
Title it "webpage" or something equally simple.
You don’t need any special software to write HTML. You can simply use any word processing program, even WordPad, NotePad or SimpleText. To begin:
1) Open NotePad or whichever text editor you prefer.
2) Start a new document.
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| Figure 1: To start writing your web page, open NotePad and type in beginning and ending HTML tags. |
This new document is the canvas upon which you will create your web page. To start, you must type the HTML tag, which specifies that the page you are writing is to be read in HTML. The HTML tag looks like this:
<HTML>
You must also put the closing tag, a few spaces down. The closing tag, which you may have guessed by now, looks like this:
</HTML>
Type these two tags as shown in Figure One.
Now everything that goes between those two tags will be understood to be in HyperText Markup Language.
Next you will want to set up the very basic layout of the page, the foundation upon which you can build as you along. All web pages have two basic sections, the HEAD and the BODY.
The HEAD section can hold a great deal of information that will not be seen by your visitors but are tools for you. However, all you need to know about right now is the TITLE, which goes in the HEAD section and can be seen by your visitors. Here is how create the HEAD section:
1) Directly under <HTML>, write <HEAD>
2) Leave some space for whatever you may eventually put in that section.
3) End that section with the closing tag, </HEAD>
What comes below the head? The BODY. All the really fun stuff, like text and graphics, goes in the BODY section of your web page. Creating the BODY section is just like creating the HEAD.
1) Below </HEAD>, write <BODY>
2) Leave some space for all that neat content you will have.
3) Wrap it up with </BODY>
Here is what your page should look like so far:
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