INDEX.HTML

Start with this webpage to learn how to build your own. Look to the links below


All the work we do will be on your thumb drive for now

Later on when we want to make the webpage viewable to the world we will transfer it to your public_html directory on the school network

  1. The first thing I want you to do is create a folder (in your thumb drive). Name it what ever you want and open it.
  2. The second thing I want you to do is create a new text document by right clicking and selecting it. Name it: index.html This will be your "main" page. Now right click on the icon and open with notepad. Next right click again and open with a web browser
  3. The third thing I want you to do is go to the first link below( the template link) and copy and paste the code into your note pad for index.html. Save it and refresh the browser window you opend for it.
  4. Now we are ready to edit the page and add to it. Follow the links below to the first step

Your HTML code is broken up into sections. The top section is the head, and the bottom section is the body. Most of what we do will be in the body

You can edit your page using notepad, and when it is saved you can view what it looks like by opening it with Internet Explorer or Firefox. If you make more changes in notepad, save it you can hit the refresh button in your browser to view the updated changes.


  1. Link to a XHTML template Simply copy and paste the content of this link into a new file with the file extension .html
  2. Link to the first step Follow this link once you have created your html page from the templage
  3. Link to w3schoolsw3schools is the standard for web design. If you need to know how to do something check out this link