Hi all.
This is a VERY EASY tutorial on how to make your first HTML webpage.
Step 1:
Make an empty folder somewhere and name it whatever you want.
In this new folder, make a new textdocument. (Right Click -> New -> Textdocument)
Give it a name and open it.
Step 2:
Copy this text:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Page Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello world!
</BODY>
</HTML>
What does this mean?
<HTML> Tells the computer the HTML page starts here
<HEAD> Start of the Head-section, everything in the Head-section can not be seen by you visitors
<TITLE>The beginning of your title. Your title will show on the top left corner of your visitor's browser
</TITLE> Tells the computer this is the place where your title stops
</HEAD> End of your head section
<BODY> Beginning of your Body-section. This is where your actual webpage begins, the real content of your page begins here
Hello world! The text that will be shown on your webpage
</BODY> The end of the Body-Section
</HTML> This is where the HTML-code stops
Now simply save your textdocument as index.html (don't forget the .html part or the computer won't know it's a webpage)
Why index.html?
Every browser automaticly detects an index.html page as a homepage.
E.g. If you have 3 pages in your directory called aboutme.html, index.html and home.html, every webbrowser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, ...) will automaticly open index.html if someone goes to http://www.yoursite.com.
Congratulations, you're done
Just open your webpage to view your result.
If you want to edit your webpage, just right-click it and choose 'Edit' (if you want to edit it with Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver) or Open With -> WordPad.
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