Stuart Blythe

Introduction

Seven Initial Steps

Basic Codes

Additional Resources

Creating Your Own Web Pages from Scratch: The One Thing You Need to Know

A Web page has essentially two types of information: 

    (1) information that you want viewers to see, and (2) code that tells the Web browser how to format that information.
Viewers generally do not see the code, unless they click on the View menu at the top of the screen in Netscape and choose Document Source. (The process may differ with other Web browsers.) This will show the code used to create a page.

HTML code appears in brackets < > to distinguish it from the information you want to display for viewers. Most codes appear in pairs, one part showing where the coding starts <code> and one showing where it ends </code>. For example, if I were to write

    I like <i>Absolam, Absolam!</i> more than most any other book
the book title would appear in italics when viewed through Netscape:
    I like Absolam, Absolam! more than most any other book
That's really the main thing to remember: Codes appear in brackets and generally surround the text you want to format. The key, then, is to remember some basic codes (and learn where to find other codes) so you can format your own page.

 

last revised 04.04.00