By now you have done enough work that you ought to save all your efforts. If you are using something simple, like NotePad, you can just save it. But if you are using a more complicated word processing program, you will need to specify that your work be saved as "text only", in order to insure that any computer will be able to read the simple letters, numbers, and characters.
It is key that you save your work with the right file extension.
1) Choose Save>File.
2) Select type, either Text Only, Text Document, or ASCII, however it may be worded on your program
3) Give the file the extension .htm or .html (IMPORTANT!)
4) Select the folder you created when we started.
5) Save it in that folder.
VIEWING YOUR PAGE
Want to see how your page will look on a browser?
1) Open the browser you use, Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc . . .
2) Select File>Open
3) A dialogue box will pop up, and you can either just type the location where you saved your page, or you can select BROWSE (if you are using Internet Explorer) or CHOOSE FILE (Netscape)
4) Go to the folder where you saved your page
5) Select your page
6) Click Open
7) In the dialogue box, your page's location will appear, and you can click OK
Your Page Should Look Something Like This
You page will appear on your browser as it would appear to anyone else on the Internet. It is not published yet, so right now, it is only visible on your computer. But you can see your page as you go along. You do not even have to close your document before you view it in the browser, making editing quick and easy.
You have seen what the bare bones of your new web page looks like, now you can jazz it up a little, with color, fonts, and even images. We aren't going to get too fancy, because this is just for beginners, but hopefully you will learn enough to make a pretty snazzy page.
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