Your First Web Page
The Absolute Basics
The overall HTML document development process begins with planning and ends with
maintenance as discussed in the Planning Section of these tutorials. This section focuses on the part of that process you will spend the majority of your time on -- creating HTML documents. This is not the time to turn off your
browser and go back to playing solitaire! After you have completed reading these tutorials
you will have created a Web page complete with text, headings, horizontal rules,
and even some character-level formatting! At that point you can run to all your friends on
the Internet to tell them how easy it was! With the basic skills you will learn in
these tutorials you will be able to master any other HTML-related topic easily!
Before we can begin you need only two tools:
- A Web Browser (I assume you have one if you are reading this)
- A Text Editor (Warning - Using a word-processing program
such as Word, WordPerfect, or even WordPad to create HTML documents introduces
extra formatting and control characters, which WILL cause problems. HTML
requires plain text with no formatting at all. Notepad is fine UltraEdit is even
better.)
Ready? Let's Begin.
Note: All code you should type is this color.
Creating an HTML document is done the way creating any plain text document is. Here are the steps:
- Open your text editor.
- Start a new document. If your using Windows or Macintosh, choose File|New.
- Enter the HTML code and text you want to include in your Web page.
- Save your document. If you are using Windows or Macintosh, choose File|Save or File|Save As.
Voila! All you have to do now is upload the file to the server using an FTP program and you're done!
Now that wasn't hard was it?
For those of you that require just a little bit more detail, the other tutorials within the HTML section will focus on steps 3 and 4. For a focused HTML Tutorial, we highly recommend visiting the NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML.
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