A Beginner tutorial

web site creating guide

Welcome to an introduction to HTML and web design. This short tutorial is aimed to give newbies a little experience in writing HTML code, saving their files correctly, and viewing the completed works in a web browser. Unfortunatly, this tutorial cannot teach you the basics of using a computer, so please be sure that you meet the following requirements:

  • Know what notepad (or other text editor) is and how to use it.
  • Able to open up a file using a web browser.
  • Know how to copy and paste text from a webpage.
If you are lacking the ability of these stills, please contact a local geek and for a quick lesson.

tutorial overview

In this tutorial you will be transcribing code into notepad and then viewing it with a web browser. The code is called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and notepad is a commonly used text editor on Windows PCs. HTML may seem confusing at first, but we will help you understand how it works in this step-by-step tutorial of how to make your first web page.

 

your first web page

To start off, copy the following HTML code into notepad. Be sure to copy the code exactly, otherwise your web page may not function correctly.

HTML Code:

<html>

<head>
</head>

<body>

<h2>My first webpage!</h2>

</body>
</html>
The above code is all that is required to create a basic web page! Now save your file in notepad by selecting Menu and then Save. Click on the Save as type: drop down box and select the option All Files.

When asked to name your file, type "index.html", without the quotes. Double check that you did everything correctly and then press Save. Remember where it was saved to because you will need to open this file.


viewing your web page - web browsers

To view your web page, you are going to have to use a web browser (of course). Web browsers are programs that interpret HTML, like what you have just copied into notepad, and transform that code into a visual representation, or a web page. Common web browsers include:


viewing your page

To view your web page, you must open the "index.html" file inside of a web browser. Open up another browser window and then follow these instruction.

  1. In the new browser window, select File then Open

  2. Then click Browse to enter Windows Explorer

  3. If you remember where you file is, navigate to its location

  4. When you find your file, index.html, double-click the file to open it inside your web browser

Success! You have just viewed your very first webpage. 


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