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Build a Basic Web Page

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It is really easy to build your first Web page.  There are only a few HTML tags you need to learn.

Here's How

  1. Write the html tag <html>.
  2. Write the head of your document <head>.
  3. Write your title <title> Put your title here </title>.
  4. Close the head of your document </head>.
  5. Open the body of your document <body>.
  6. Give your page a heading <h1> heading goes here </h1>.
  7. Write your page contents.
  8. Separate paragraphs with the p tag <p>.
  9. Close the body of your page </body>.
  10. Close the html </html>.
  11. Save your work as a .html or .htm file.  Remember where you save it.

Congratulations!  You have now created your very own web page!

Tips

  1. Use any text editor to write your page such as Word, WordPerfect, etc.
  2. Write your HTML tags in lower case.  This conforms to the current standard.
  3. Review the page in your browser off your hard drive before uploading it to your server.  Do this by opening Internet Explorer or Netscape.  Under the File menu, open the file you have just created.

Ed.  09/2003

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Updated 09/15/2006