Setting up a Web Site - HTML

• Part 2 - Creating Your First HTML Document
  • Ways to Create Your Document File
  • Entering the Text
  • Viewing the Results
  • Review

Ways to Create Your Document File

• Windows text editors (Notepad, WordPad)
  Enter text and tags directly
• Word processing software(WordPerfect, Microsoft Word)
  Add tags and save as text, or save as HTML
• WYSIWYG HTML design programs (Adobe PageMill)
  Design page and automatically generate HTML codes
• HTML text editors (HomeSite)
  Tools to assist in adding tags
• Unix editors (pico, vi)
  For hardcore computer geeks

Entering the Text

Viewing the Results

Paul's First Document

This is my first HTML document. I'm looking forward to learning about HTML and creating my own Web pages.

This is the second paragraph. This sentence is in bold, with tags at the beginning and end. This sentence is back to normal text. This sentence is in italics.

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This shows a line break instead of paragraph.
This is a new line.

Review

<H2> </H2>

Heading - formats text as a heading (valid values are H1 to H5). H1 is the top level heading, and is displayed as the largest by Netscape.

<B> </B>

Bold - formats the text as bold.

<I> </I>

Italics - formats the text as italics.

<P>

Paragraph break - ends paragraph and skips a line.

<BR>

Line break - begins a new line of text.

<HR>

Horizontal rule - displays a ruler line.

In the next section, we'll add to your sample document by using more HTML tags.

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