How to Develop a Web Page
Developing a Web page can give you great satisfaction. You can churn out personalized pages with hypertext markup language, or HTML. It is the main way most people do it. It's OK if you don't have expensive Web-developing software packages. Most laptops and PCs come equipped with applications you can use.
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Instructions
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Develop a Web Page
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Save a new Notepad document to your desktop using a dot html extension. Find the Notepad (or Wordpad) icon on your desktop. Go to your start menu and click on "Accessories," if the little desktop picture isn't already there. While Windows XP has the word "Start" on its start-up task bar, Vista simply has the Windows logo.
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Edit your new Web page. Right-click the Web page icon you've saved to your desktop. Click on "Open With." You should be able to see the word "Notepad." If you don't, go to the bottom of the drop-down menu and click on "Choose Default Program." Develop a Web page using either your Notepad or Wordpad application. Both work equally well.
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Use a few basic tags. HTML has groups of words and symbols that are collectively known as tags. You tell a computer where you want certain pieces of information to appear -- text, photos, and video, for example. Put "<html>" at the top of your open document (the one you're editing) and then type "<body>" just underneath. Remember that HTML requires a certain format. If you place an open tag (like the one above) at the top of your page, you are going to have to put an end tag at the bottom, which will look like this: "</body></html>". Open and end (otherwise called "closed") tags tell a computer that a Web page has a beginning and an end. Put photos on your Web page using the image tag: "<img src="placephotohere.jpg">". Make sure to use quotes around your jpeg image.
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Get a time saver if you can. When you develop a Web page from scratch, you will want to see your work in progress. It is painstaking to open and close a Web page repeatedly while you're working on it. Download a free HTML editor from the Web to reduce tedium. It will have HTML tags preprogrammed on it, which appear as you type. HTML editors (it's just a piece of software to help you) often have ways to help you recognize errors, too.
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Tips & Warnings
It might be a good idea to place your photos or videos on a public forum, social networking site or blog site. The Internet will then generate an address for it, and you can simply copy and paste the address (always prefaced with "http") within the quotes that follow the "src" letters.
Without open and closed HTML formatting, a Web page will not work properly.
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