Patrick's Page
Web Pages for Idiots, or the HTML
(Hyper-text Markup Language) Code
The first thing you need to make your own webpage is a good text editor, YOU
CAN NOT USE A WORD PROCESSOR, i.e.,MICROSOFT WORD, PAGES, or APPLEWORKS.
There are different text editors in different platforms (MICROSOFT, APPLE
MACINTOSH etc.).
MICROSOFT
The most common text editor in MICROSOFT is a program called
NOTEPAD. The way you get to NOTEPAD is by RIGHT CLICKING any empty space on
your DESKTOP, going to the selection "New", then choosing text document. That
will get you to the program NOTEPAD.
APPLE MACINTOSH
The most common text editor in Apple mac. is a program called TEXT EDIT The
way you get to TEXT EDIT is by going into your APPLICATIONS folder and
running a search for "TEXT EDIT". Once you have found TEXT EDIT double- click
on its icon and start a new document.
HTML CODE (for both platforms)
Now that you have a text editor open you can start typing " HTML Tags". A tag
is a string of characters within brackets. Brackets look like this: "<" or, to
close the tag, this: ">". Whenever you write in HTML code you need to open a
tag then use the same tag plus one forward slash right after the bracket. for
more details look at the diagram below.
Opening tag Closing tag
" [p]" " [/p]"