HTML Lesson 1

NOTE: If you have already mastered "Make Your First Web Page" go on to Lesson 2.

Instead of purchasing one of the home page creation programs and using it to make your first web page, you can copy our home page template for free.

There's no HTML to learn. Just leave in place the HTML we've already written, and insert your text in place of ours.

Here's how to do it, step by step (You might want to print out these directions to follow them more easily.):

1. CLICK HEREfor a simple page you can use as a template.
2. Use your browser menu to "view" the "source" document. (In addition to the text you saw at first, you will now see the HTML tags -- expressions starting with "<" and ending with ">" -- in various places on the page.)
3. Use your browser menu to "save" this "source" document to your disk.
4. Make a duplicate copy to work with, leaving the original intact in case you need to go back to it.
5. Rename the copy "home.htm".
6. Open home.htm with any simple word processor.
7. Leave the HTML tags alone, but replace the rest of our text with your own.
8. Save home.htm as a simple text document.
9. Use your browser to open home.htm. (The browser shows you how it will appear to visitors on the Internet.)
10. If you want to make changes, go back to the word processor, make the changes, and save the document before viewing it again with your browser. (You may need to use the "reload" command from the browser menu to see the new version.)

Of course, this is a basic, no-frills web page. But it is a start. For suggestions on expanding and improving it . . .

Go on to Lesson 2.