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:
  1. Your name.
  2. Your email address, with a link so people can send you mail.
  3. Favorite web site link or two.
  4. 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.
  5. Allow text to wrap around your images.
  6. A Title. The <title> tag goes in-between the HEAD tags.
  7. A heading. Your page needs to have a nice heading. Use teh font tag to change teh heading color
  8. Set a different background and text color in your BODY tag.
  9. Use some formatting tags, such as bold, italic, and/or underline.