Things You'll Need:
- PC or laptop
- Basic text application like Notepad or Wordpad
- Internet browser
- Internet Access (optional)
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Step 1
Format the HTML code for your web page. Before you can create a web page, you have to tell a browser what you want it to look like. Place some HTML markup code within your newly-saved file by right-clicking the document web icon. Click on "Open With," and then choose Notepad or Wordpad (many systems will have both). A blank document will now appear.
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Step 2
Set your layout and content with tags. Place the letters "html" inside a pair of open and closed angle brackets to set your web page layout. The text and the angle brackets used together are known as "tags." They should look like this: "<html>, </html>." Do the same thing with the word "body." Remember to place your body tags between your html tags. Write "<h1>, </h1>" and "<p>, </p>" between your body tags, too. Place content text (the words your readers will see) between your open and closed tags. The type of content will depend on what type of English web page you want to create. Know that the "h1" is a heading tag and the "p" is a paragraph tag. Beginners should remember to place all tags in a column along the left side of the page, and then place content in between the angle brackets. The tag series for a web page could look something like this: "<html><body><h1>Writing 101</h1><p>Writing is easy and fun!</p></html>." Go to the File menu and click the word "Exit." A menu box will ask if you want to save your new information. Click "Yes."
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Step 3
Design links using the anchor tag. A common way web pages draw attention is by using links from book authors, universities, and subject journals. Write "<a href="">, </a>" somewhere within your body tags. Copy and paste a web address between the quotation marks. The entire anchor should flow like this: "<a href="http://www.authorstuff.com">Link name goes here.</a>."
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Step 4
Make a table to place content text using the table, tr, and td open and closed tags. Remember the forward slash goes inside the closed tag, too. Be sure to write the tags in this precise order, as well. It should appear: "<table><tr><td>Cell name no. 1</td></tr></table>." Repeat the data series if you want multiple cells and rows like this: "<tr><td>Cell name no. 2</td></tr>." Design a reading list using a table header with book names. Use "<th>Book name here</th>" in between your tr tags and before your td tags.
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Step 5
Use a video to enhance your web page. Take a relevant video and place it on a networking site or blogspot. Afterward, the site will show you an object or embed code. Copy the entire code and place the data into your web page. Place the code between your td tags. This is the easiest (and quickest) way to place video anywhere on your page. If you don't use a table, you'll have to probably learn script, which is a much more complicated method of formatting a web page.
