- 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.
- 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.
Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Click Notepad.
Tell the browser what language we are using. Type <html>. 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 : </html> (ends web-page)
Add the heading of the page as shown.
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 <title>. Close it off at the end of your title by writing </title>.
Work on the body of the page. Type <body> to open the body tag. Then close the body tag: </body>. The bulk of the information for your web-page goes between <body> and </body>.
- To give your web-page a background color, you can add a style to the body. Instead of writing just <body> write <body style="background-color:red">. 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!
Write some text between the body tags.
- To make the text go to the next line (like pressing "Enter" on your keyboard) write <br>.
- Want to add a marquee? Simple! <marquee>TEXT GOES HERE</marquee> A marquee is a word that moves across the screen.
- To make the text go to the next line (like pressing "Enter" on your keyboard) write <br>.
- Add some pictures. If you want to put a picture from the Internet onto your web page, this is the HTML code for pictures : <img src="URL"> . The closing tag is: </img> but it is optional.
- Check to make sure all of your tags are closed. Your webpage should look something like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Web-page</title>
</head><body bgcolor="yellow">
I love wikiHow because
<marquee>It's the best website in the world!</marquee>
<img src="http://www.wikihow.com/skins/common/images/wikiHow_logo_5.gif"></img>
</body>
</html>
- 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!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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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