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Exercise 1

1. Open Notepad
2. Click on “File”... then “open”... in the  “Look in” box, select  3 ½ Floppy A: .... In the “Files of Type: box, select “all”.... double-click on “exercise1.html”
3. That’s raw code there. This is the stuff the computer reads. It’s a web page. Not a very exciting one, but a web page nonetheless. Take a moment to look over the code.
4. Change the Title to something else.. anything at all.
5. Save.

6. Open another Netscape Browser window.
7. In that window, click on “File”...then Open Page... then Choose File.
in the  “Look in” box, select  3 ½ Floppy A: .... double-click on “exercise1.html”

Netscape now translates your code from HTMl into something anyone can understand.. and you get...A BLANK PAGE!!! woo hoo! Told you it was exciting.
Do take a look at the top right-hand corner of the screen to see where your title is displayed.

8.  Activate Notepad again. Let’s put some content in there. In between the <body> tags, type in some text.. anything.. muck around a bit. When you’re done, goto File and then save.

9. Activate the Netscape Browser window that displayed your orginal page. Just to the right of the navigation buttons is a button called “Reload”. click on it, and the browser will display your new page with the changes you just made..
Voila! your first web page!