Breakout

Find an Idea

Pick one of the motivational uses for web pages (or choose one yourself) to work on as a basic page.

Get Started

Fire up the word processor or editor with which you are the most familiar and start typing in the HTML Skeleton:

<html>
<head>
<title>text of title</title>
</head>

<body>

text of body

</body>
</html>

Add your "text of body"

Use the basic tags and those on the tag description page:: <a href="address">text</a>
<br>
<p>
<hr>
<h1>text</h1>
<img src="imagefile" alt="descriptive text">
<strong>text</strong>
<dl> (etc.--see the tag descriptions)

When you've something entered

save the file as a plain text file (ASCII, or plain text; saving it with line breaks makes things much easier to read later on).

Look at the HTML File

To see what you have just edited, open your Netscape (or Mosaic, etc.) window and use the

Open
       File

option under the File menu (in Mosaic, this is called Open File, under the File menu). If you can't find the file you just saved to look at, ask your local computer guru.

& Go Back to Re-Edit!

Does it look as you intended? Try going back and changing the file, saving it again, and reloading it in your WWW browser.

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