Make Your Own Web Page Tutorial-Using and Learning HTML Learning how to make your own web page using HTML isn't strictly necessary in order to make your own website. There are many tools (web page editors) which make leaning HTML unnecessary for making a web page. However you will find that a basic knowledge of HTML makes it much easier to insert scripts like Google Adsense and website counters etc correctly into your web pages. What Is A Web Page? Web Pages are simply text pages with special formatting Tags which describe how the text appears i.e. is it bold, which font etc. This formatting is called HTML- Hypertext Mark-up Language. Although knowledge of HTML is not required in order to make web pages you will find that learning a bit of basic HTML very worthwhile. Furthermore there are many good free HTML editors available allowing you to make your own web pages for free. Make Your own Web Page - An Introduction to Here you are going to familiarise yourselves with HTML and at the same time make a Web page. The tool we will use to make your first Web page is a simple text editor called Notepad, which is available for free on all versions of windows. I recommend you follow these exercises on your own computer. Make Your own Web Page Exercise 1 Open Notepad and type the following: Make Your own Web pages-for free Save the file as my-first-web-page.txt in a directory on Close Notepad and then open the File my-first-web-page.txt in notepad. Notepad should display my-first-web-page.txt as shown in Figure 1 below: What you have created is a simple text file meant to be Make Your own Web Page Exercise 2 Now open the file my-first-web-page.txt in notepad and change it <HTML> Make Your own Web pages-for free </HTML> Then save the file as my-first-web-page.txt.Open the file again using notepad. Notepad should display my-first-web-page.txt as shown in Figure 2 below: Notepad doesn't know that <HTML> is actually a formatting tag and not meant to be displayed, so it displays it as normal text. Now save the file this time as my-first-web-page.htm and then open it again. This time it should open with Internet Explorer. Internet explorer should display my-first-web-page.htm as shown in Figure 3 below: The file extension .htm or .txt defines what application is used to open the file .txt files are opened by Notepad and .htm or .HTML extensions are opened by Internet Explorer. Lets examine this is in a little more detail.
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your computer (e.g. C:\webs\BYO directory).
Figure 1. text page displayed by notepad
read by a text editor or word processor and it is displayed correctly.
to the following:
Figure 2. An HTML page as displayed by notepad
Figure
3. An HTML page as displayed by Internet Explorer
Notice that the <HTML> tags are missing as the browser knows what to do with them and uses them to structure and format the text but doesn't display them.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Make Your Own Web Page Tutorial-Using and Learning HTML
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