Nuts and Bolts of HTML Authoring

HTML editors

There are numerous HTML editors for all platforms, which provide more-or-less WYSIWYG interfaces for writing HTML documents. If you are an emacs user, Gavin highly recommends html-helper-mode for emacs.

A Quick Start

In any event, the fastest way of getting into HTML authoring is to fire up the word processor or editor with which you are the most familiar and to start typing in the HTML Skeleton and adding things as you like. When finished, 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).

To 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).

And what about the World?

In order for the rest of the world to be able to see your wonderous creation it must reside on a computer which is running a web server. (On a computer with many accounts it is possible to configure things so that there is a directory in ones home directory in which such documents may be placed.) Ask your resident computer resource for more information on this front.

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last modified on 17 May 1996