Table of Contents
- Hello World!
- Understanding Tags and Structure
- Whitespace in XHTML
- Breakdown of a Tag
- Attributes
- Paragraphs and Line Breaks
- Validation and Browser Tools
Basic Structure
Your First Webpage
Lets not waste any time and jump right in, shall we? Open the text editor you have decided to use, and copy and paste the following HTML code into a blank document, then save that document with the file extension html. (So, your file might be named MyPage.html)
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Your First Webpage:
<html> <head> <title>My First Webpage</title> </head> <body> Hello World! </body> </html>
Now, open that file in your web browser. This can be accomplished several ways: drag and drop the file onto the web browsers icon, or, from within the web browser, go to File -> Open File (Safari/Firefox), File -> Open (IE6), or by dragging and dropping (IE7).
If you got something that looks like this, then congratulations! You've made it over the first hump. Lets go to the next topic, where we'll try and figure out where all the words in those funny looking brackets went.
