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- Open Notepad. Click on the 'Start' button, then go into the
'Programs' and then 'Accessories' folder, and select 'Notepad.'
- Hit "Ctrl-N" to open a new window. In that new window, click on
this link: my template page. If you already
know HTML you don't need this template, and you can begin
your web page in the Notepad using HTML right away. If you are just
learning HTML, click on the above link to go to that web page, follow
the next few directions, and then come back to this site to continue.
- In Netscape, go 'View' and select 'Page Source' or use
Ctrl-U. This opens the source code of the page being viewed in
Netscape. If using IE4, go to 'View' and select 'Source.'
- Select the contents of the page (with the mouse) or use
Ctrl-A.In IE4, the source code will come up in a notepad file: in
Notepad, go to 'Edit' and 'Select All.'
- Copy the selected text/page source with Ctrl-C. In IE4,
Ctrl-C works as well, or 'Edit,' 'Copy.'
- Paste the copied text into your empty Notepad file. Select
'Untitled-Notepad' from the start menu along the bottom of the screen,
and use 'Ctrl-V' or 'Edit,' 'Paste' to paste the text into the
empty, untitled Notepad.
- Save the Notepad file as index.html. In Notepad, go to 'File'
and then 'Save As.' If not already selected, make sure the 'Save in:'
field is saving it to a disk in the A:\ drive. Type 'index.html' into
the 'Filename:' field and then click on 'Save.' (All web pages must be
saved with the extension (ending of the filename) '.html')
- Close the source code. Close the window that says "Source of:
http://www....(etc.)", the one that has the grey background with the text
you just copied into the Notepad. After this, you should have returned
from the template to come back to this page, so you can continue on to
the next part of the tutorial.
Beginning a web page on a Mac is almost identical to using the PC instructions above. Use SimpleText (or TeachText) on
Macs instead of Notepad on PCs to edit your web document, saving it with
the extension ".html" as seen above.
Sometimes a page in progress works better when saved on the hard drive,
instead of working from a disk. If the web page gets a fair number of
errors while being run from disk, try saving it to the hard drive and
then saving back to disk when you have finished editing the HTML
document.
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HTML.
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