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On This Page we are going to explain the real basics of creating a Web Page using an editor and using HTML Tags. infact HTML 4.01, but thats just detail and we want to keep this really simple.In Order to create a WEB Page you of course need an Editor, there are loads of them available, many free ones many cheap ones and some very expensive ones. On A standard Windows PC a program called Note Pad is installed already for you and you can use this, find it by going Start | Programs | Accessories | notepad. You can of course use Text Pad or TS Web Editor 2.The last editor I mentioned is quite good, it is free to down load and it very nicely highlights your HTML Code and tags in a very useful way. The Tags you need for a basic page are these: An HTML Tag, a HEAD Tag, a TITLE Tag, and a BODY Tag. You Start the page with an HTML Tag Written like this : <HTML> You should close this tag by writing at the bottom of your page </HTML>, this closes the HTML Tag. In between the opening and closing HTML Tags You should have a Head Tag Written like this <HEAD> and closed like this </HEAD>, and beneath this you should have a Body tag written like this <BODY> and closed like this </BODY>. It is important to have a Title tag, it is written in a specific place.... it must be written inside the Head tag. Hence you have something like this:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> This is a title</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P>This is a paragraph of text that will appear on the page<</P> </BODY> </HTML> Once you have written all the code do save the file and if you are using a fairly basic editor do make sure that you save the file with a sensible name for example index.html. Please do note: if you are using Dreamweaver or some similar editor the program will almost certainly write the .html file extension for you, but TS Web Editor 2 and Note Pad and other editors will not. So if you need to actually type in to the Save As box: :index.html, not just index. It is a very good idea to give your files names without spaces in them, thus index.htm or index.html or even index.php is acceptable but index page one.html is not so good. You can not actually view your creation on a web server unless you have either installed a web Server on your PC or Mac you have sent the file up to a live Web Server. But we will definitely cover this at Web Spinners in due course. Once we have grasped the basics of creating some web pages we will be covering How to buy a domain name, how to buy some Web Space on a live Web server and how to get your pages upload to that live server.If you actually buy and install Dream Weaver a program that was originally MX Dream Weaver written by Macromedia, but now owned by Adobe it has inbuilt in it a cool mechanism for up loading your web files to a live server that works very well. If you do not have Dream Weaver then you can use an FTP Client to upload pages directly to a Live Web Server, this is efficient but does require a little bit of Knowledge about how FTP works and in particular configuration of the FTP Client and the Live Web Server. I will be writing some articles on use of FTP on my blog probably over the next few weeks If You want to go to the Blog then why not go there now: The Computer Fixer Blog |
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