If you want to make a page of
information that can be shown
online, you need to write it
using a code, or language,
called HTML. We need to use
a program called a text editor
to write our HTML and a
browser to view it in.
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HTML uses tags
To show what goes on a web page we use special
codes called tags.
CREATING WEB PAGES
<html>
My web page
</html>
Text editor – mypage.html
The page must start with an
opening HTML
tag.
The closing
tag has a
slash:
/
Now get started!
To get started, we are going to make some simple web pages. You can
store them on your computer instead of on the internet. This will make
it quicker and safer to test and try out ideas.
You will need a text editor and a web browser to do this. See page 31 for
help on finding them. You will probably already have a
web browser
on your computer. This is the program you use to view pages on the web.
A text editor is a special kind of word processor, a bit like the program
you use to type a story or a letter. You probably already have one on
your computer:
Notepad
on a PC, and
TextEdit
on a Mac.
Everything
between the
tags is HTML.
It ends with a
closing HTML
tag.
Key word
Tags:
Special words
used to describe what
objects there are on a
web page.
Tags always have
angle brackets < >
around them.
