Hands-on Session: Basic HTML Tasks

Basic Web Page

1. Look at the sample html file.  Looking at the web page and its source code, understand basic structure of HTML and some simple tags.

2. Look at the homepage example.

    Looking at the web page and its source code, understand basic structure of some more  simple HTML tags.

3. Build your homepage example in any text editor (NotePad);  (word processors are not good choices)  making changes as appropriate.

4. Save page.  While saving the file in notepad, create the fil ewith .htm or .html extention.  In notepad, you will need to enclose the whole file name in double quotes (e.g., "sample.html" )  to avoid the default .txt extention. 

5. Check the page in the browser locally.

6. Publish your page to the internet.  See instructions.