Your first Web page

HTML is a text mark-up language used to create Web pages (see an explanation of what HTML is here)

Here is how you create a web page:

1. You type in text
2. You add HTML tags to the text to give it structure
3. You format the content using styles

Do the first one now:

1. Open a text editor or HTML editor
2. Save this empty file as first.html in a folder/directory where you will keep HTML files (Windows Notepad users read this warning first)
3. Type Hello into the file in Notepad and save it again
4. Go to the folder/directory where you saved the file and double click on the file

You should find that your default Web browser loads and shows a fairly boring Web page with the word Hello in it!

You have now done number 1 in the list above so now move on to create a structure.

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