How to Create a Simple Web Page With HTML
Yes, you can make a webpage without learning HTML. But should you? No.
Because, for one thing, you will have problems somewhere down the road,
no matter what webpage editor you're using, and you will need to know
HTML to fix it. There are many good websites where you can learn HTMLsuch
as HTML Goodies.com. This article shows you the basics of creating a
website in HTML. With this basic introduction, you'll soon be able to
make a webpage from scratch!
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Understand what HTML is. Technically, it stands for Hypertext Markup
Language, but that's not important. It's the coding language that make
web-pages. Go into Netscape and choose from the VIEW menu "page source"
(earlier versions called this "document source"). Or, in Internet
Explorer, the VIEW menu option is "source". In Mozilla Firefox, press
[Ctrl]+U to view the page's source code. In Safari, select View - View
Source (or Option+Command+U). You will see a page of code, and that is
HTML. That code is what your browser sees and then interprets it into
that nice web-page you see.
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Remember: not all pages are equally complex! Start with a really simple
page, or you'll get overwhelmed by the syntax and the script languages.
It's important to remember that you'll be writing your information
between an opening HTML tag and a closing HTML tag. An opening tag looks
like: and a closing tag is like so: where the ___ is
replaced with a code.
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Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Click Notepad.
Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Click Notepad.
4. 4
Tell the browser what language we are using.
Tell the browser what language we are using. Type . It is the first
tag we write (tells the computer we're starting a web-page), and it will
be closed last, so at the end of the document, close it off by typing
this : (ends web-page)
5. 5
Add the heading of the page as shown.
Add the heading of the page as shown.
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Give your page a title.
Give your page a title. A title is important because (a.) it gives your
users an idea what the page is about, and (b.) when users bookmark your
site, that title is all they will see in their bookmark list. The title
HTML code is . Close it off at the end of your title by writing
.
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Work on the body of the page.
Work on the body of the page. Type to open the body tag. Then
close the body tag: . The bulk of the information for your web-
page goes between and .
To give your web-page a background color, you can add a style to the
body. Instead of writing just write . You can try a different color or even a hex code. The words
in the quotation marks are known as "attributes". They must be surrounded
by quotation marks!
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Write some text between the body tags.
Write some text between the body tags.
To make the text go to the next line (like pressing "Enter" on your
keyboard) write .
Want to add a marquee? Simple! TEXT GOES HERE A
marquee is a word that moves across the screen.
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Add some pictures. If you want to put a picture from the Internet onto
your web page, this is the HTML code for pictures : . The
closing tag is: but it is optional.
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Check to make sure all of your tags are closed. Your webpage should look
something like this:
My Web-page
I love wikiHow because
It's the best website in the world!
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Save by going to "save as", put a filename with an .html extension (such
as "testfile.html")and choose "all files" or "txt" under file type. It
won't work if both are not done. Now go find it wherever you saved it,
double click it, and your default web browser should open up your very
own web-page!