Documents
Working with all documents that go into your homepage requires four steps:
1) Creating a draft document.
2) Previewing or proofreading your draft.
3) Saving your finished document.
4) Uploading your finished document.
Drafting
At this point you have read enough about creating a homepage to be able to create a simple html document. Open Notepad and also bring up the tags page. Use the following tags to create your first draft document:
- Open the document using the < html > tag. This tag will be closed only at the very end of your document.
- Name your document "Test Page" using the < HEAD > and < TITLE > tags. Close both tags using the < /title > and < / head > tags.
- Open your < body > tag and format your background and body colors using the following example:
< body bgcolor="#000000" text="#999966" link="#FFFF99" vlink="#CCCC99" >
- Name the font style for the document using the tag:
< font face="Comic Sans MS" >- Insert a line break using the < br > tag. No closing tag is required.
- Center your next tag using the < center > tag.
- Open your page header using the < H2 > tags (which are quite large): < H2 > Test Page < /H2>
- Close your center tag using the < /center > tag.
- Open your first paragraph using the < p > tag.
- Type your text using the following tags somewhere within:
- The < b > BOLD tag and it's closing < /b > tag.
- The < i > Italics tag and it's closing < /i > tag.
- The < u > Underline tag and it's closing < /u > tag.
- All three tags < b > < i > and < u > and their closing tags.
- Two line break tags < br > < br >.
- A center tag < center > to center a small phrase.
- A closing center tag < /center >.
- Two line break tags < br > < br >.
- A few more lines of text.
- The closing paragraph tag < /p >.
Save this draft in your homepage directory (folder) naming it "test.html" for now. Your directory path should read:
"c:\internet\homepage\test.html".Now open your internet browser and drag and drop your new document to view your results. To drag and drop the document into your browser, highlight the file in your homepage directory and right click it with your mouse. Holding down the right mouse button, drag the file into your browser where it will display.
If your document doesn't look quite right, go back through each step again to make sure you opened and closed all tags where needed. When you are satisfied with the look of your draft, you may want to experiment with more html tags. Try creating subheadings and using blockquotes as follows:
- Center your next tag using the < center > tag.
- Open your new subheading using the smaller < H4 > header tags: < H4 > Sub Heading < /H4>
- Close your center tag using the < /center > tag.
- Open your next paragraph using the < p > tag.
- Type a few lines of text.
- Your next tag is a new one called a blockquote < blockquote > tag. This is used to indent text and requires a closing < /blockquote > tag. Blockquotes automatically insert line breaks in your document.
- Open your blockquote < blockquote > tag.
- Type a couple of lines of text.
- Close your blockquote < /blockquote > tag.
- Type a few more lines of text and then close your paragraph with a closing < /p > tag.
Next you will need to create an e-mail link so your visitors can get in touch with you, give credit to yourself for creating this document using a copyright character set and a different font size, and give credit to your website provider for use of their services using different a different font style.
- Create two line breaks.
- Center your next line using the center tag.
- Create your e-mail link using the following hotlink tag:
< a href="mailto:you@whatever.net" > E-Mail Me < /a >
It should produce the link: E-Mail Me . When clicked, it will bring up your visitor's emailer with " Send To: you@whatever.net". - Insert two line breaks.
- Credit your work using a different font size and the copyright character set: < font size="-2" > & copy ; Initials and Date. < /font > It should look something like this: İYoU 1998
- Insert two line breaks.
- Credit your webspace provider using text, a link, and a different font style:
This page is hosted by < a href="http://www.whatever.net/" > < font face="Arial BT" > Whatever Net < /font > < /a >. It should look like this:
This page is hosted by Whatever Net .
- Close centering with the < /center > tag.
- Close the font with the < /font > tag.
- Close the body with the < /body > tag.
- Close the document with the < /html > tag.
Previewing
Check through your document thoroughly to make sure there are no ommissions or spelling errors. Using this same format, you may now create your "index.html" - the first page of your homepage.Saving
In notepad, you may save your documents as html or text documents. It is wise to save it in both formats so you may retain a local copy (test.txt) and still have a (test.html) to send up to the remote server. If you decide to use Wordpad, remember to save your documents as DOS TEXT and use the .doc extension for your local copy. The advantage to formatting your own documents in notepad or wordpad is that you can remain offline while creating or editing your files and simply upload the completed documents to the remote server.
