Introduction To Web Designing

      Web Pages can be created in different ways or using different programs. What I will demonstrate in these pages is the basic way of creating Web Pages in the HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language) format. HTML is a language used to make web pages. This language is what your browser translates into those cool (and sometimes not so cool) web pages you have been viewing, (like this one).

      There are many ways in which to create web pages; everything from Microsoft's FrontPage Express and Netscape Composer which is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor to Notepad where you type all of the code yourself. In this section I will cover the "how to do it yourself" type of programming using Notepad. Why do this as opposed to a WYSIWYG editor? After all, with those you never even have to look at the code.The reason is simple, IF YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS THEN YOU CAN MAKE BETTER WEB PAGES. WYSIWYG editors do not always contain the latest advancements in code and also limit your options in what you can do with your page. In my other Pages I will cover everything from the basics to more advanced and difficult, aspects of HTML. Enjoy working with HTML !

      All you need to get started is Notepad or a text editor. No other software is required to write HTML! Of course, a browser would help in order to preview your work. In fact, if you wish to preview what you have done during the tutorial, just save your document as a HTML file. It should have a .HTM (if your working with Windows 3x) or .HTML extension. To do this under Notepad, while saving the file, select *.* (all files) instead of saving it as a text file and add a .html extension, i.e., index.html. Then just click on the file you saved and it should launch your default browser automatically and allow you to look at the page you created. Also keep in mind that upper or lowercase characters makes no difference in the commands in HTML. So, open that editor and let's get started!

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