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The my first HTML lesson. OK we are going to use a
very basic text editor to create this page - notepad.
If you are using Windows then it will be in your Start,
All Programs, Accessories folder. Otherwise any other
text editor will do (don't use a wordprocessor like
Word because it can interfere with your code).
Type the following into an empty text document :
Now save the document to your desktop as webpage.html
and you have just created your first web page. If you
double click the file on your desktop, your computer
will open it up as a web page. It will be white and
empty apart from the top bar which should say "Blank
Web Page".
Reopen the file on the desktop in your text editor
and lets take a look at what we have.
A webpage works by defining 'tags'. There are tags
everywhere. They control everything. Tags are contained
between angled brackets<> Important note: Don't
forget to close the tags. Not closing a tags is a major
cause of having to debug pages that don't work.
The first line defines the language of the page to
the web browser as HTML.
The second line defines the start of the 'Head' section
of the webpage. This section relates to the mechanics
of the webpage.
In this section there is a title tag. Notice the way
tags are closed by naming the tag then adding a / after.
After the Head section closes, the 'body' section begins.
The bgcolour assigns a hexadecimal value of #FFFFFF
to the page background (white). The page text is assigned
a value of #000000 (black).
The Body section is the content of the page. Anything
you write between the <body tag and the /body>
tags will be shown on the webpage.
Lets add some text and a bit of formatting in the next
tutorial.
Web design by timrendle.com
tim@timrendle.com
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