Carrie's Basic HTML Help

This is an easy basic structure of a webpage that you can make in windows if
you use IE (internet explorer) as your default browser. You MUST have IE (internet explorer) set
to be the default or this won't work to be edited in windows. If you use
netscape as your default it has its own editor. Also the newest versions
of Internet Explorer gives you the option to use Front Page Express to make
your webpages. All you do in an editor such as these is type what you want
to be seen on the internet, the editors will put html tag codes into your
text for you. (What You See Is What You Get)
However, its very important you understand the very basic
html and its meaning. Hyper Text Markup Language is the meaning of html.
Simple huh? Ok, now on to the next step. Are you ready? Off we go then!
In order for your page to be seen on the internet it has to have a beginning and
an end. Your codes go inside of brackets <likethis> no spaces! One thing you
MUST remember is to be consistant with either upper case or lower case tag
codes. i.e. HTML or html, got that? Now to learn what is inside the brackets
and their meanings. The title tag is just that!! The title of your page.
Such as <title>Carrie's Basic Html Help Page</title> The body tag is very important
it shows your background graphic, your bgcolor (color that is seen as your
page is downloading to be viewed) once the entire page is downloaded the background
graphic shows up. text="#------" is the color of the text you want your page to show,
You ofcourse use color codes instead of ---, link="#------" is something that is
clickable that links two things on the web together, alink="#------" is an anchor for
the link, vlink="#------" is called the visited link. You will learn more about
these on my next part of help. They all MUST be inside the body tag. The only
exception is the background graphic!! Some folks may just want their page to
be a soft color or even a bright color. Which is what you will see on this page as
we are not putting a background graphic in here yet. First you have the 
tag....I think of this as meaning paragraph. Next you have the
<center> tag, this tells your text to center itself on your page.
The tag tells your text to stand out to be bold. The tag tells
your page what size you want your page text to be. Remember every tag
has a beginning <---> and an end </---> The backslash indicates the ending tag.
Okay now look below to see the very basic way to make a web page.

<html>
<title>Name of Your Page</title>
<body background="name.jpg" bgcolor="#004400" text="#ff0000" link="#ff0000" alink="#ff0000" vlink="#ff000000">

<center>


What you put in this area here is what will be seen on the internet. This
is where you can put your graphics, text etc.


</center>

</body>
</html>

Copy and paste from the beginning of the codes for a page <html>
to the ending of the codes </html> into a notepad.
Go to file and click save as and call it mywebpage.html, you will get a directory
window. Find the drop down window to view your computer directory until you
find your desktop. Then click Save in the window and close out notepad. Go
to your desktop and click on the mywebpage.html icon and you will see your
very first webpage. Now while you are viewing your web page all you'll see
is the text that is inbetween the words in the brackets <greaterthenandlessthen>
Using your mouse right click and you'll see a little gray box come up. Look down
the list until you see these words "View Source" Highlight View Source and click
your mouse. And what should appear?? Aww...Your notebook codes you saw earlier, right?
Now to the editing!! Click on the first word not inside a bracket...which in this case
is What highlight from What to and include etc. and while its highlighted hit
your delete button on your keyboard or you can click on Edit at the top of your
notepad to click delete from there. Now where the curser is blinking start
typing your own words. Doesn't matter what you type, just a paragraph about yourself
or your flowers, your children...anything..as long as you type something you won't
be afraid for anyone else to read. Finished? ok, now go to File in Notepad and Click Save.
NOT Save As..just the word "save"...got it? Now close out notepad and hit the refresh
button on the Internet Explorer Browser and watch the page change from
the origial words to your new words.

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