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Creating Your Own Web Page

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

Other resources for creating and designing Web page
- Bare Bones Guide to HTML
- The Web Designer
- The Web page design cookbook: all the ingredients you need to create 5-star Web pages by William Horton -- this book comes with a CD-ROM of templates that you can copy and use for your own Web page.
- Use the Library's catalog and search for the subject "HTML"

An example of a minimal HTML document


    <html>

    <head>

    <TITLE>My Home Page</TITLE>

    </head>

    <body>

    <H1>My First Home Page</H1>

    <P>Welcome to my home page</P>

    <P>Under construction!!!  </P>

    </body>

    </html>

To include an image in a HTML document


    <html>

    <head>

    <TITLE>My Home Page</TITLE>

    </head>

    <body>

    <H1>My First Home Page</H1>

    <P>Welcome to my home page</P>

    <P>Under construction!!!< img src="image.jpg"></P> 

             

    </body>

    </html>

HTML editors -- You can use any PC text editor (such as Notepad on Windows) to write HTML documents, or download a HTML editor from the following sites;

Loading your HTML file on a server
1. After you have created your HTML documents, you need to contact your Internet Service Provider regarding how to load your files on the server.
2. You will also need to ask your Internet Service Provider for the URL to access your file.
3. You can use the following HTML Validation Tools to check the errors on your document
  - Doctor HTML
  - The Validator
4. You can now advertise the availability of your home page on the INTERNET.