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Getting Started - Creating a Basic HTML Web Page

Creating a Folder for Your Web Page

Prior to creating your web page, your first step should be to create a folder on your desktop or within your My Documents folder to hold your new web page files. You can call it web site or whatever you'd like.

Your next step will be to create a basic HTML page. Simply open a plain text editor, such as Note Pad, and type or paste in the HTML code that you see in the box below. Each element of that code will be explained below, as it is important that you understand what these codes are and what they mean.

Here is the code that you should copy and paste into your text editor:

<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

Your Web Page Content

</body>
</html>

HTML Tags

Everything you see between the < and > symbols are html codes, which are also referred to as html tags. These tags are telling the web browser how they should display the page.

The <html> tag tells the browser that it is about to see HTML coding.
The <head> tag contains information about the page, such as the TITLE, META tags for proper Search Engine indexing, STYLE tags, which determine the page layout, and JavaScript coding for special effects.
The <body> tag tells the browser that the part of your web page that should be viewable by others is about to start. The various tags used inside the body tag tell the browser how to display the page.

For a complete list of HTML codes and examples, visit our HTML Codes Chart section.

Each HTML tag contains an opening tag and a closing tag. The opening tag is written with the command enclosed with brackets.

Example: <HTML>

The closing tag contains a forward slash followed by the command enclosed with brackets.

Example: </HTML>

The opening tag is telling the browser to begin the specified action and the closing tag is telling the browser to end the action.

Saving Your HTML Document

Once you have copied and pasted the above HTML code into your text editor, your next step will be to save the document into the new folder you created. If your new web page will be your main or starting page, you should save it as index.htm or index.html, as index is the file name most web servers will look for when someone types your web address into a web browser. Secondary pages should be saved using the pages most relevant keyword phrase. For example, if your page is about dog grooming tips, then you might save your page as dog_grooming_tips.htm.
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