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Your first webpage

As you move through the instructions, add a new line after each instruction.

  1. open notepad
  2. type the less than symbol, h t m l, and the greater than symbol
  3. type the less than symbol, h e a d, and the greater than symbol
  4. type the less than symbol, t i t l e, and the greater than symbol
  5. type in whatever you want your page's title to be. You could call it "My Page!" or "Welcome!" have fun with it.
  6. type the less than symbol, slash, t i t l e, and the greater than symbol
  7. type the less than symbol, slash, h e a d, and the greater than symbol
  8. type the less than symbol, b o d y, and the greater than symbol
  9. type the less than symbol, p, and the greater than symbol
  10. Here's where you can type in whatever you want in your page. "Hello, my name is ... " or "Welcome to my amazing website" could be starting text.
  11. When you're done with your content, type the less than symbol, slash, p, and the greater than symbol
  12. type the less than symbol, slash, b o d y, and the greater than symbol
  13. type the less than symbol, slash, h t m l, and the greater than symbol
  14. Save your file somewhere you will remember where you put it. When you save it, navigate to the "Save as All files" option, and name your file index.html
  15. Open Internet Explorer. from the File menu, choose open (or press control and O at the same time.
  16. navigate to the index.html file you just saved. The browser should open the file as a webpage!
Let's learn about some more kinds of HTML elements.