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Writing Web Pages – The Basics

Starting with the basics of all basics, what is a web page? A web page is a file that sits on what we call a web server and is read or rendered in a browser like Internet Explorer or Opera or whichever browser you prefer to use really but one thing remains consistent – they all render Basic HTML Syntax/ our web pages.

The standard syntax of a web page is:

Basic Web Page Syntax

Open notepad, Copy the above text, save it as myFirstWebPage.html onto your desktop and run it (double click on the file). It will display a very basic HTML page displaying “My First web page”

Well done, you have written your first web page. Try changing the text within the “title” tags see what happens.

Now all we have to do is make it a little more interesting!

I plan to make this a regular blog topic, and when I think of something that I think you guys might find useful I will be sure to post it …. Requests are also more than welcome.

Blog Tip: Keep you code clean and neat, Google loves clean code and the neat thing is for when you have to de-bug – and you will learn the value of that if you don’t.



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