Phase 2

Your Own Web Page

Now, you are going to modify your Web page to make it look better. To do this, you will add some "codes" to the text in your HTML file ("first.htm").
  1. Go back to Notepad (either by clicking on the Notepad icon in the Windows taskbar or by using "Alt-Tab").
  2. Your Web Page "first.htm" should still be opened.
  3. Change the text in your file to:

    4. <TITLE>My First Homepage</TITLE>
    <H1>The First Line of My First Homepage</H1>
    This is my first Web Page...<BR>

    The bracketed terms above, the <TITLE>, <H1> etc... are HTML codes. HTML stands for "Hypertext Markup Language" and is used to create Web pages.  HTML codes change the appearance of the page.
    Remember this: A Web page consists of text and HTML codes.

    Many HTML codes have a "starting" and a "closing" code.
    <TITLE> is the starting code for the title.
    Codes that begin with a "</" are closing codes. The closing code for the title is: </TITLE>.
    The quote <H1> above uses opening and closing header codes.

    The first line "My First Homage" is the title and will appear in small letters at the top left of the Netscape screen when your Web page is displayed.

  4. Save this file from Notepad. Go back to Netscape (by using "Alt-Tab") to view your modified Web page
  5. You now see the previous Web page version , click on the "Reload" button to see the new version.

...And there you go, you have your first Web Page

 ...With HTML Codes!!

 Notice that your web page looks better!!

Phase 2