Designing an HTML Document By Hand
Start with this
skeleton HTML page as a starter.
Here are three links for help with basic HTML:
Basic HTML link 1
Basic HTML link 2
Basic HTML link 3
When you have the skeleton HTML page
open you can Select All and Copy. This will copy the sample HTML
text. Now open up a text editor, such as notepad
(start/programs/accessories/notepad) and Paste. Save your
file to a floppy or by emailing it to yourself and save it as index.html. Make sure your file is a
.html type of file and not a .txt file. Web pages need to be .html or
.htm. It is prefered to be .html.
Your web page will go in-between
the <body> </body> tags.
Create a simple begining web
page that contains the following:
- Your name.
- Your email address, with a link so people can send you mail.
- Favorite web site link or two.
- Your favorite image or two. If you don't have photos available,
use some from Free Graphics to
make the site look interesting. Take a small thumbnail image, not a large
one. Or make a logo from cooltext.
Right click an image to
save it to the disk. Remember when inserting an image into a web page that
you should not have any path such as A: in the name of the image. This will
cause problems. Just list a file name, such as picture.jpg or whatever you
named the file. You must upload the image to your site.
- Allow text to wrap around your images.
- A Title. The <title> tag goes in-between the HEAD tags.
- A heading. Your page needs to have a nice heading. Use teh font tag to change teh heading color
- Set a different background and text color in your BODY tag.
- Use some formatting tags, such as bold,
italic, and/or underline.