CREATING A HTML PAGE USING A TEXT EDITOR

If you look on a computer at home or at school you will probably find a variety of HTML editors ranging from Frontpage to Note Pad, which enable you to create a web page. These programs are normally divide for free with a computer is brought so you should find that you do not need to buy any further software to create your own basic web page.

Out of the free editors that are available this site has decided to use notepad as it enable you to have total control of the web page you are creating.

In order to locate and load the Notepad program you will need to follow the following steps:

1) Go to and click on the start button of the windows screen.

2) When the start list appears you will then need to select the word Programs, followed by Accessories and then Notepad.

3) Once you have selecred the Notepad and have let go of the mouse button the program will automaticly start up.

 

When the program has open you will be presented with a white screen and a flashing cursor. To make sure you have the correct program you should see the words Untitled - Notepad at the top of the blank white screen. If these words do appear then we can continue. If however they do not appear we would recommend that you follow the above three steps again.

Notepad

Once notepad has opened you will need to type in the following tags below. The reason you need to do this is that these are the main tags that will make up all of your web pages that will be created.

<html>

<head>

<title>

</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

By clicking on each of these tags you will be taken to other part of this tutorial called What is HTML which explains what each of them do. To return this this page then please click back on the same words on that page.

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