Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide
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<strong>Mavis</strong> <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Teaches</strong><strong>Typing</strong> 12<br />
Web Page Basics<br />
Building a Web page using HTML is easy. We’ll build a simple Web page to start off, and direct<br />
you to great resources on the Web for further instruction. Ready? Begin!<br />
To start your Web page, open the Windows Notepad application. Select Start - Programs -<br />
Accessories - Notepad.<br />
Now type the following text in the open Notepad document:<br />
<br />
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My Very Own Web Page<br />
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Welcome and thank you for visiting My Web Page!<br />
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My Web page text goes here.<br />
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After you have completed typing the text save this file as “index.html” on your desktop.<br />
Now let’s see what our page looks like using our Web browser. To preview the file in your Web<br />
browser, open the browser; select File - Open - Browse - Filename - Open.<br />
Congratulations – you have just created your very first Web page!<br />
This Web page is essentially the same as many high end professional Web pages. It is created by<br />
a series of formatted text instructions, called tags, that essentially tell the browser where to<br />
place information and how it should appear. These tags come in pairs; the first one is called an<br />
open tag and the second is called a closed tag .<br />
Through the use of tags the most technologically advanced Web page (for the most part) uses<br />
the same technology as this simple Web page.<br />
There are many ways to create wonderful, engaging Web pages. You may choose to “handcode”<br />
HTML (as you did in the exercise above) or you may choose to use a “WYSIWYG”<br />
program (What You See Is What You Get) Web-builder program. To learn more about Web<br />
design, go online and research the various resources available. For example, go to your favorite<br />
search engine site, such as AskJeeves or Yahoo, and try keywords such as: Web, Web page,<br />
and Web site.<br />
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