- Open your text editor (notepad for windows, texteditor for mac)
- Type the tag <html> at the top of the document.
- the tag needs a closing </html> tag
- Example:
- <html>
- </html>
- Place your cursor on the line between the opening <html> tags and end tag </html>. Type the tag <head> and make the closing tag </head>. Within the head tags comes special tags for search engines and for declaring different attributes to your document
- Example:
- <html> <head> </head>
- </html>
- to create the document title, which appears in the title bar of the browser window, enter <title> and is end tag </title> between the head tags
- Example:
- <html>
- <head>
<title>
</title>
</head> - </html>
- the last tag you need to add is the <body> tag. Within this tag is where you write your content that you want to appear on your page. Don´t miss out on the closing tag </body>
- Example:
- <html>
- <head>
- <title>
- </title>
- </head>
- <body>
- </body>
- </html>
- Save your document. A good idea is to save it to blank.html so that you can reuse this as a template. However I would rewrite the code in the beginning over and over again so that you memorize this simple format.
If you open the document your browser will open it. However you will not see anything as you have only constructed the containing elements! Follow the rest of the tutorials and you will have a blistering page within no-time!
