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Before you can build a website, you need something to build it with. A website can be built with a large array of programs.
Even Microsoft word has an option to change your word document into an HTML document-
though I wouldn't suggest this route for building a site.
To understand why, requires you to understand that the web browser reads the code of a web page to know what to display.
Programs that are not true HTML or pure text editors, (word is a word processor, not a text editor), add extra code.
This can cause some browsers to have problems displaying the page properly and take extra time to load the page for viewing.
You can view the code of most web pages by right clicking on a web page and choosing view source. It may seem daunting
to look at a web page this way the for the first time and just see all that code.
If you read through some of it though, on a well coded web page, you should be able to start picking out what each section is.
If you feel overwhelmed at this point, don't let this stop you from creating a web page.
There are many ways to create a web page without ever having to work with the code itself, it is just very useful because there is a lot that you can do and important information that can be inserted in this code.
The first thing to do is get a good HTML or text editor to work with.
For a list of Free HTML and text editors click here.
Once you have chosen which editing system you are going to use, let's get started.
The basic parts of a web page:
This is an example of the very most basic HTML page
<html>
<body>
<! -- Place HTML code or body of text in this section -- !>
</body>
</html>
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Technically, for the most basic web page, there are only a few requirements. HTML works with tags.
An HTML tag are instructions enclosed by < >. Web browsers use these tage to interpret what the page should look like.
The < > is considered an Opening or beginning tag, it instructs the browser- start doing this.
The / tells browsers this is the stopping point. </ > are called closing tags.
Most tags come in pairs with an open and closing tag such as <html> and </html>.
There are however, some instructions which do not have a closing partner.
For these, the / at the end will provide the close or end of statement. For example <br />.
Continue with HTML lesson or
Use a code generator to create the code
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