Super Basic Web Page

To create your web page, you need:

A browser (you’re using one right now)
A plain text editor

Step 1: Open a Text Editor

A text editor is a program that edits plain text files. When authoring HTML, do not use Word, Wordpad, Pages, or any other program that does not save files as plain text.

Here is a link to a browser-based plain text editor you can use

Step 2: Create and Save the Web Page

Copy-and-paste the text below into your text editor, starting with the text, "<html>"

  <html>
   <head>
    <title>A Simple Webpage</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    This is a simple webpage.
  </body>
</html>

The words that are surrounded with angle brackets (< >) are called elements. We will talk about what a element is soon, but first let’s finish creating and displaying your webpage.

Once you have copied the text over to your text editor, change name at bottom right to simple.html. Then press SAVE. This should download the html file to your computer

Step 3: Display the Webpage in Your Browser

Open the file simple.html double-clicking. If it doesn't open in a browser, try right-clicking or ctrl-clicking on the file and choosing Open With -- then select browser of your choice (ex. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc)

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