HTML TRAINING

BUILD YOUR OWN

LEARN HTML

Hi, I'm Steve. A number of my friends have asked me to help out with beginning html. They want to make big letters and colored letters. Often they say, wow, I want to make a great web page like that. Making and putting up a web page is easy, it is the design and concept that is difficult. If you have a good concept of what looks good, have a subject you know about, and have the ability to get your ideas across you will have a great web page. Often it is easiest to start off with a homepage. A hompage is a page where you introduce yourself, talk about your likes and dislikes, and your family. If you have a scanner, you can add photos of your family, vacation, pets, home, garden, etc. and make pleasant even wonderful pages.

I want to say one thing about browsers. While I don't want to leave anyone out, web pages, are controlled by browsers, in a sense, and right now Netscape and Explorer control somewhere between 90%-98%. I have made all my pages with netscape 3.01 and feel all the latest browsers can easily handle these pages. Probably a full 85%+ can view my pages with no problem. I will try to do somethings for text browsers as I can, but in all reality I feel people should upgrade if they want to keep up with the web.

I do not intend to teach a formal course on html code here, instead I will focus on 'how to' write the code and what it will do for you.

The first thing you need is an editor. Basically I just need one to write code on. If you have Netscape Gold, you have an editor. If you're using windows you can use notepad. Simply go to windows notepad and open a new file. Save it as 'whatevername.html' or 'whatevername.htm' and you got it. For teaching purposes, I will set this up as a demonstration page so that you can compare what your code looks like to what I set it up as. In that way you will be able to gauge your understanding.

We will start with the basic code needed for a web page.
The first thing you need to know is whatever you open"< >" you must also close"< />" A web page is set up with 4 basic codes. These codes are



 < html>   < /html>  lets your browser know it is dealing with an html
                   document < html> opens the document and < /html> 
                   closes the document Everything should be enclosed 
                   between these two tags.
 < head>   < /head>  encloses title and meta tags and some other stuff 
                         you will learn about later 
 < title>  < /title> the title of your page. This will not be seen
 < body>   < /body>  Almost everything goes here. If you want it to be
                    seen on your site, put it here. This is where you 
                    create you're page, add images, sound, links to
                    other pages on you're site, links to other places,
                    search engines, and others.

To begin we need to set up a page stucture. I think it will be easier if you put this in a new directory or folder to make it less confusing. You can label your new directory anything but I recomend Newhtml. Whatever you name it remember what it is. To create a directory in windows 3.x left click on file in file manager, then left click on create directory, then enter name. In win 95 make a new folder. Open Notebook or some other text editor or html editor. Create a new file. On this blank screen of your new file type the following.

< html>
< head>
< title>
< /title>
< /head>
< body>
< /body>
< /html>
Leave no spaces between the letters and symbols you type. press the enter key at the end of each line. Save this file as 'yourname.html' in the Newhtml. At this point if you look at the page you just created with your browser, you would see nothing. That's because html tags are invisible to viewers. To see them in Netscape click on the word view at the top of Netscape, click document source, then you can see what you just printed.This will work throughout the web. You can view the code used to make any page.

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