Basic HTML Info

Un1ted on Sun May 15, 2011 4:39 pm

How to Start Your Page
The simple program that you can code your HTML in is NOTEPAD. Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Notepad.exe

How to Start Coding Your Page

In HTML, the compiler (web browser) reads the web page as blocks. When you create a new page, the compiler is looking for the blocks (correct term: tags) that form the website. Those tags are:

Code:: <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html>

This is what the compiler reads:

<html> : Starting the HTML Page
<head> : Identifies the <title> tag and looks for any external <link> tags
<title> : Creates the sub-message on your "tab"
</title> : Closes the <title> tag
</head> : Closes the <head> tag
<body> : Contains all of the proper content of the web page. Those include links, images, text, scripts, etc.
</body> : Closes the <body> tag
</html> : Ends the <html> tag. This ends the HTML document.

How to Save Your Page

First when you save the file, you need to make sure that the compiler can read it, otherwise it wont know what your talking about. So, hit File>Save As... When you save the file, save it as "Index.htm". You can also save the file as "Index.html", as they are the exact same.

The correct way to save a file if its the home page (correct term: portal) is with Index. Any FTP server can read the page and indicate it as the home page. So if a user were to go to www.mywebpage.com/folder, The "/folder" would read the Index file.