Friday, 25 April 2014
HTML INTRODUCTION
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Notepad is a common text editor on Windows-based computers (usually found under the Programs > Accessories menu) and Mac OSX computers come bundled with TextEdit but any program that lets you fiddle with text will do.
Now create a folder called “html” wherever you like to save files on your computer and save the file as “myfirstpage.html”.
To look at HTML files, they don’t even need to be on the web. Open a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer and in the address bar, where you usually type web addresses, type in the location of the file you just saved (for example, “c:\html\myfirstpage.html”) and hit return. Alternatively, go to the File menu of the browser, select Open, and browse for the file.Pow. There it is. Your first web page. How exciting. And all it took was a few typed words.We’ve said here to use a basic text-editor, such as Notepad, but you may be tempted to use a dedicated software program such as Adobe Dreamweaver.You should be very careful when using these programs, especially if you are a beginner, because they often throw in unnecessary or non-standard code to “help” you.
If you’re serious about learning HTML, you should read through a tutorial such as this first, so that you at least have a basic understanding of what is going on.
Software programs such as these will never give you the same control over a web page as coding by hand.
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