How to Build a Website Using Notepad
There are many methods available for building a website. If you want to use Notepad, there are some basics you need to understand. Notepad is a plain text editor. To create pages that will eventually reside on the Internet, you will need to code them with the HTML format. Notepad currently has no options to output to this format for you. If you have no HTML knowledge, some fundamental coding can get you started on simple pages to build your website.
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Open your Notepad document or create a new one. Insert the following coding into your document: “<html><head><title> </title></head><body></body></html>.”
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Type your Web page text between the “<body>” tags, for example: Type “<body>This is my data</body>.” Type your Web page title between the “<title>” tags. This is the title that will show at the top of the browser window.
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Include “<h1>” tags for headings and “<p>” tags for paragraph text, for example: “<body><h1>Page Head</h1><p>paragraph one</p><p>paragraph two</p></body>.” Continue in this way for the remaining data.
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Choose “Save As” from the main menu. In the “File name” field, name your file with an extension of “.html,” for example: “myfile.html.”
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Click the “Save” button. Test your file by double-clicking it to see your Web page.
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