

You will need to keep this file open, so you can follow the instructions, but you will 

also want to see your html file, so resize both of them until you have half of each 

on your screen.

To start an html document the tag is <html>----suprised?

to end it --</html>   we read this as "end html"

Any tag you will see from here on will have a start tag, and an end tag. The stuff affected 

by it goes inside.  I'll expalain what I mean later.

So now, your page should look like this:

<html>



</HTML>



notice that case doesn't matter with tags.


In order for anything to be visible on the page, we must have a body-- like the body of a 

letter. Like so:

<html>

<body>

</body>

</html>


Each tag (except a few--like the html tag, for instance)  has properties that can be changed

"htmlTagList.doc" lists all the properties of each tag.  For now, just follow this example.

Let's change the property of the body tag so we dont have a boring white background color on 

the webpage.  Like so:


<html>

<body  bgcolor=lightsteelblue>

</body>

</html> 


Ah, a nice shade of blue.  

Alright already, let's VIEW the page! (It'll just be a blank page with lightsteelblue as the bg)


Save the html document.   Open Internet Explorer.  At the command line, instead of a web address

type the path to your file-- C:\websites\index.html   for instance.

If you forgot the path, look for it in Windows Explorer. (If you still cant find it, go to 


Tools ---  Find  --- files or folders --- type the name of the file + search the entire hard

drive).

After you have viewed your page, close this file and open up the next one, WEBSTUFF2.txt 










