Monday, December 14, 2009

Intro to HTML with notepad

It's very interesting how a notepad utility can serve as an editor for your website or blog.
Kiebler5 did a great job by describing the various uses of "namespace" in c++; However, this intro to HTML is intended to give beginners a feel of what programming looks like. (ps. HTML is not a programming laguage, it is a markup language)

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

* HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
* A markup language is a set of markup tags
* HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

I will show you how to create and run a simple html page. [click on images to enlarge]
Step. 1) Open notepad.
(Quick way to open notepad - hit Ctrl + R - and type "notepad" in the dialog box and hit "OK".)
Snapshot 1:
Step. 2) Type your own HTML code or copy this code into your notepad.
Screenshot 2:
Step. 3) Save the txt file as a .html format. This step is very important. This is because without the HTML extension your operating system may detect the file as a txt file.
In snapshot 3, I saved my html code as "simplePage.html".
Screenshot 3:
Step. 4) Locate your and run your html file.
Screenshot 4:
Next, Intro to CSS.
Until then,
Happy Coding
Verse316

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