How to build a Web Page or “The things geeks never told you!”

What to do first In order to build a web page you have to write your commands or “tags” in one language (html) and convert to another language. Please: 1.Click on start 2.Click on programs 3.Click on accessories 4.Click on notepad

This is what you should see… a blank untitled-Notepad

Next type in the following

Let’s look at what is what Every html document opens up with the “tag” and ends with We separate the document by defining the versus the

Next The only information (for now) that is in the is for the computer to be able to identify the document. Therefore we need to define the document or give it a title as you would any file for a computer. That “tag” is the

Let us define the Let us define the The only contains the file name…watch what happens on the next slide when I enter a 1 in between and and file…save as… 1.txt to your text folder.

1 as a 1 as a The Of the document is now 1.txt

That is all the information that you will have in the of the document You will need to close your and your by inserting the forward slash (/) into and

The body This is what the web page looks like when we “save as” 1.html to your HTML folder! Notice that there is nothing within the body of the document because we have not typed anything between and

Let us add something to the body I simply typed in “I am creating a new web site.” I will “save as” 1.html again and overwrite the old 1.html document

This is what 1.html looks like Notice these words that were added to the body

It is as easy as our past example Now it is time for you to attempt to complete the # 1 assignment which is found in the tan/grey file cabinet under”Assignments” Good Luck!