The Internet:
E-mail, Web Pages, and More

Instructor: Aaron Schmitz


Week 3: Creating Simple Web Pages

Topics Discussed:
  • Steps involved in creating a web page.
  • What programs to use
  • Previewing your work
Steps in Creating a Web Page
  1. Create the page using Notepad
  2. Save the work to disk as an html file.
  3. Preview the work in Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer
  4. If you need to make changes, go back to step 1.
A Basic Web Page
What you typeWhat it means
<html> Tells the web browser that this is a web page.
<head> Begins the heading
<title> Begins the title bar captioing
Aaron's Sample Web Page The title of the web page I want displayed at the top.
</title> Ends the title bar captioning
</head> Ends the heading
<body> Begins body of the web page
<center> Begins centering of text and images
<h1> Begins the largest heading of the page, but
you can set the number anywhere from 1-6.
My First Web Page The title of your web page
</h1> Ends the heading
</center> Ends centering of text and images
<font size =3 color="Black"> Sets the font size. You can set it to any number
between 1 and 6(largest). The color can also be set here.
This is my sample web page. Tell me what you think The words you want to say
<p> Start a new paragraph
<br> Create a line break
<hr> Create a horizontal line(or break).
<img src="image.gif"> Inserts an image
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com"> Begins creating the link to another page/site.
Click here to go to Yahoo The text that you want people to click on to be moved to another page.
</a> Ends the link text
</body> Ends the body of the web page
</html> Ends the web page
NEXT WEEK: More Web Page Design and Digital Camera Work
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