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Create a web page

At its most basic, a web page is simply a plain text document with some simple markup to tell a web browser how to display its elements.

Create a new plain text document (On Windows use notepad, on OS X use TextEdit - but be sure to set the document format to HTML when you save.).

Type in the following:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title Of My First Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
Welcome to my homepage. <strong>This text is bold</strong>
</body>
</html>

Save as index.html in your public_html folder.

Open up a web browser and go to http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~your_username. Surprised? You've just made a web page!

A full-fledged tutorial on HTML is beyond the scope of this document, and uneccessary seeing how W3Schools has done such a good job of providing in depth tutorials on just about every topic relating to web publishing: http://www.w3schools.com/

We recommend you start with their Web Primer and their HTML Primer.

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Date Created: May 29, 2007
Last Modified: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 2:29 PM
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