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Introduction
Beginners guide on how to make your own website This document is aimed at the internet novice and requires little or no web knowledge.
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The 3 window technique
A website is a collection of web pages stored on a computer that is constantly connected to the internet. The web pages are created using a simple script language called html.
a web page has 2 main parts: "content" and the formatting
the content is the actual words such as:
"Welcome to my website "
the formatting is done by placing "tags" around the content such as:
"<b> Welcome to my website </b>" which would make it bold.
To understand how tags work its best to understand how your browser works
The browser was invented to format documents to make them more readable
if all the words on this website were in one block of text then is would be really boring and difficult to read.
each tag tells the browser how to format the words.
lets start with a really simple example the content we will use are these words:
"welcome to our website This website was created by hand using notepad, although it is very simple we do intend to add more and more things to it over time."
first start notepad
- in windows click start
- Click Run
- then type the word: notepad
- press enter
what should happen: a window should open up with a blank page.
type the words "Welcome to our Website" without the speech marks
Save your notepad as html
- Click File then Save As
- where it says Save as type: select All files
- call the file welcome.html
- and save it to your desktop
what should happen: on your desktop you should have a new icon called welcome.html
open the new file in your browser
- start up your browser by clicking your usual internet icon such as internet explorer.
- make the window smaller so you can move it around and so you can see your desktop behind it.
- drag the welcome.html icon and drop it on to your newly opened browser
what should happen: your browser should now have the words "Welcome to our Website" in it.
Now you should have 3 windows open
- this page with the instructions on
- your notepad window
- your browser showing your web page
What we are going to do next is change the notepad window then save and then refresh the browser window and we will see the changes. Try that now:
what should happened: You browser should have the new test in it.
This is how we are going to teach you how make your own website
Things to try
try typing more words in
try making a new webpage called something different
Next time we will start using tags to make it look nice so don't forget to add this website to your favorites - bookmark us.
and come back soon.