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Create Your First HTML Page

If you are running Windows, start Notepad.

If you are on a Mac start SimpleText.

In OSX start TextEdit and change the following preferences: Select (in the preferences window) “Plain text” instead of “Rich text” and then select “Ignore rich text commands in HTML files”. This is very important because if you don’t do this HTML codes probably won’t work.

Type in the following text:

This is my first homepage. This text is bold

Save the file as “mypage.htm”.

Start your Internet browser. Select “Open” (or “Open Page”) in the File menu of your browser. A dialog box will appear. Select “Browse” (or “Choose File”) and locate the HTML file you just created – “mypage.htm” – select it and click “Open”. Now you should see an address in the dialog box, for example “C:MyDocumentsmypage.htm”. Click OK, and the browser will display the page.
Example Explained

The first tag in your HTML document is . This tag tells your browser that this is the start of an HTML document. The last tag in your document is . This tag tells your browser that this is the end of the HTML document.

The text between the tag and the tag is header information. Header information is not displayed in the browser window.

The text between the