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The Basics of HTML |
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To start, HTML simply stands for HyperText Markup Language. This is the language your browser understands, and interprets, when loading a web page. This language is the most difficult to learn in the universe. You will need a child under the age of ten sitting next to you to proceed. Just kidding! Actually, many people seem to think HTML is really that hard. It's not. If it were, I wouldn't be here giving you this tutorial. I'm a dummy in more ways than you can imagine. So if I can do it, you can too. One more quick thing... after you go through this article and create your first page, you should refer to the Resources section on the right-hand side of this page for links to more in-depth tutorials. That way you can really whip up the site of your dreams! Now, let's make a web page! Open up Notepad on your computer. If you have a text editor, you may use it instead. When you open Notepad you should have a blank page. Go ahead and do this now. I'll wait. Okay, below is the HTML code needed for a web page to display. It's really basic stuff, but that's all we need for a basic text page. Cool, huh? Just type the following code on your blank page: <HTML> Did you do it? Good, now you are ready to save it. Go to the "File" menu of Notepad and click on "Save As". You then give your new page a name in the "File Name" box. Call it "webpage.htm". Leave out the quotations marks. In the box that says "Save as Type" (or something similar), click on the right-hand down arrow and highlight "All Files(*.*)" Now choose the place on your computer where you want to store your new page. Choose a drive - your "C" drive for instance. Now choose a directory - this is the folder where your web page file will reside within the "C" drive. Now click on the "Save" button. Let's look at your new page! Open your browser and type in the path to your just-created page in the location box where you normally type URLs. It will look something like this: c:\mydirectory\webpage.htm You should see the words: Wow, look at this! I'm creating a web page! That's it! You've done it! Now, to get fancy with graphics, make text a different color, create a table, or do any other design trick, requires the use of HTML Formatting Tags. If you want to take a look at some of these tags click here. You should feel really pumped up now. You've created your first page and you're ready for the big time. So, keep the momentum going and check out the Resource section of this page for further study. In closing, allow me to humbly assign you the new title of... ... Webmaster!
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This article will give you a basic understanding of HTML.
You will have the opportunity to create your first web page with a few simple
instructions, using tools available right now on your computer. Sounds good, right! 
