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The Basics

To Create a Web Page Document:
The internet only reads pages in .htm or .html format. A .doc format will not run html, javascript, or css coding. It is very simple to save your page in a format that will be readable by web browsers.
  1. Start the text editor you will be using to create your webpage
  2. Click File, Save As.
  3. Type the name of your page as the file name. IMPORTANT: Make sure you type ".htm" or ".html" after your file name! If this isnt present the page will not be in proper web format.
    Ex: index.html
  4. Click the area marked "Save as type:" and select "Text Document."
  5. Now all that is left is to click save.

Congradulations! Now you have made your very own Web Page document!

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Setting Up Your Page
Even though you now have your page in .htm or .html format the internet will still not be able to recognize codes if the document text is not written using a few html codes.

First you need to tell your page that it is in html coding. To do this you:

Now the document itself will be able to recognize that the codes inside are actually html.

There are a few more codes to add to your page before you can start adding your body text. These codes incule header, title, and body tags.

Between the <title> and </title> you will put the title you want to appear on the page. This title will go on the top bar.

You will use the body area to put all of the codes and text you want to appear on your page.


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How to start a new line
The simple action of pressing the "Enter" button does nothing in an HTML script. By typing <br> the script will recognize a line break.

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How to start and end paragraphs
<p> is a paragraph code. This would go before every body of text you wish to desognate as a separate paragraph. After each paragraph you would type </p> to end the tag.
Example:

This is paragraph #1

This is paragraph #2


It is similar to adding a double line break.
Paragraph tags do not indent for you. To make a paragraph indented type the following code:
This text is indented

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How to Center Your Text
It is very easy to center text in a webpage document.

The code for centering is:

<center>This text is centered</center>

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Formatting Text

Changing Font Color
A page with black text and a white background will look boring an unprofessional. By changing of the color of the font you can add style to your page. <font color="COLOR HERE">TEXT</font>
Example:
<font color="red">THIS TEXT IS RED</font>
Font Styles
<i>Italicized</i>
<s> Slashout</s>
<b>Bold</b>
<u>Underline</u>
<sup>SuperScript</sup>
<sub>SubScript</sub>
<tt>Typewriter</tt>

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Changing Font Size
Sometimes on webpages you will want to increase the text size for emphasis. This is very easy to do.
<font size="#"> YOUR TEXT HERE </font>
Where the # is you will enter a number from 1-7.
This is font size 1.
This is font size 2.
This is font size 3.
This is font size 4.
This is font size 5.
This is font size 6.
This is font size 7.

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Changing Font Face
It can get tricky when changing the font typeface on your website. When visiting a site in order to view someone's font face you must have that same face installed on your computer. Since you don't want to have people download a font face when visiting your page, make sure you use a font face that is very common. Times New Roman, Verdana, Comic Sans MS, and Arial are all common fonts.
<font face="FONT">YOUR TEXT HERE</font>
Example:
<font face="comic sans ms">This is Comic Sans MS</font>
This is Comic Sans MS

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Font Background Color

TEXT GOES HERE



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Fun Font Codes-These only work on the Internet Explore browser.
Sometimes the basic font formatting tools aren't enough. These codes will help spice up your page with dropshawdow, glowing, or shadowed text!
DropShadow


Enter any color where it says "COLOR."
Where is says "NUMBER" enter a number 1-10.
Glow


Enter any color where it says "COLOR."
Where is says "NUMBER" enter a number 1-10.
Shadow


Enter any color where it says "COLOR."
Where is says "NUMBER" enter a number 1-10.
Wavy Text

Enter any color where it says "COLOR."

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Images

Adding Images to Your Site
A site can be somewhat boring if it does not contain images. When working with html you cannot just copy and paste images into your site. You will need an image tag code.
<img scr="IMAGE URL">
Ex:
<img src="star.gif">


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Resizing your images
Sometimes the size of your image does not work with your page. It may be too big or too small. By changing the width and size with a html tag, everything will look a lot better.

<img src="star.gif" width="60" height="12">
<img src="star.gif" width="120" height="24">
<img src="star.gif" width="240" height="48">

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Backgrounds

Changing Background Colors
A Page with a plain white background can appear to be boring and an eyesore. An easy way to fix this is to add some color and spice things up a little!

<body bgcolor="COLOR">

NOTE: This goes INSIDE your already created <body> tag.

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Making a Picture Your Background
Another way to make your background more appealing is to make it an image. Inside your <body> tag add: background="URL OF IMAGE"

This will look like:
<body background="URL OF IMAGE">

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Links

Linking Text
Of course you want people to spend as much time on your page is possible, but there is al lot more out there. By linking your page to other pages it will let your guests experience the work of others as well.

There are two steps in setting up a link:
  1. The URL
  2. The name as you want it to appear

This is how it will look:
<a href="URL">NAME OF SITE</a>

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Linking Pictures
Linking a picture to another page is very simple once you have mastered the linking of text. Instead of using the title of the page, you have to use an image tag.

<a href="URL"><img src="IMAGE URL"></a>

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Tables

Creating Tables
Tables are a good way to organize information on your webpage. These are a little more complicated than some of the previous codes you have learned on this page.

To begin your table start with the simple:

See, thats not too terrible, but tables consist of mulitple cells and rows.
The code for a new row is <tr>.

Now, to add cells. <td> is the code to create a new cell.
Time put it all together and see some results!
This is Row 1, Column 1, Cell 1 This is Row 1, Column 2, Cell 2
This is Row 2, Column 1, Cell 3 This is Row 2, Column 2, Cell 4


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Adding Borders

This is Row 1, Column 1, Cell 1 This is Row 1, Column 2, Cell 2
This is Row 2, Column 1, Cell 3 This is Row 2, Column 2, Cell 4

The above table looks pretty confusing. All of the words and cells are blending together. Tables are supposed to make information more organized. There is a very easy way to fix this minor problem.

In your <table> you will want to add border="NUMBER" so it will look like:
<table border="NUMBER">
BORDER SIZE 1
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 2
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 3
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 4
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 5
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 6
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 7
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4
BORDER SIZE 8
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4

You can always use values bigger than 8 when making a border. However, they may get a little too big after a while.
Here is a 100 size border:
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4


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Resizing Tables, Cells, and Rows
<table height ="NUMBER" width="NUMBER">
Here is a table with a width of 200 and height of 100:
cell 1cell 2
cell 3cell 4

You can also use % in your values. If you set the width to width="50%" it will take up exactly 1/2 of the page.

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Adding Color to Tables
You can add color to your table the exact same way you added color to your background.
<table bgcolor="green">
Cell 1 Cell 2
Cell 3 Cell 4


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Misc. Codes

Color Codes
EEEEEE DDDDDD CCCCCC BBBBBB AAAAAA 999999 888888 777777 666666 555555 444444 333333
000000 000033 000066 000099 0000CC 0000FF 330000 330033 330066 330099 3300CC 3300FF
660000 660033 660066 660099 6600CC 6600FF 990000 990033 990066 990099 9900CC 9900FF
CC0000 CC0033 CC0066 CC0099 CC00CC CC00FF FF0000 FF0033 FF0066 FF0099 FF00CC FF00FF
003300 003333 003366 003399 0033CC 0033FF 333300 333333 333366 333399 3333CC 3333FF
663300 663333 663366 663399 6633CC 6633FF 993300 993333 993366 993399 9933CC 9933FF
CC3300 CC3333 CC3366 CC3399 CC33CC CC33FF FF3300 FF3333 FF3366 FF3399 FF33CC FF33FF
006600 006633 006666 006699 0066CC 0066FF 336600 336633 336666 336699 3366CC 3366FF
666600 666633 666666 666699 6666CC 6666FF 996600 996633 996666 996699 9966CC 9966FF
CC6600 CC6633 CC6666 CC6699 CC66CC CC66FF FF6600 FF6633 FF6666 FF6699 FF66CC FF66FF
009900 009933 009966 009999 0099CC 0099FF 339900 339933 339966 339999 3399CC 3399FF
669900 669933 669966 669999 6699CC 6699FF 999900 999933 999966 999999 9999CC 9999FF
CC9900 CC9933 CC9966 CC9999 CC99CC CC99FF FF9900 FF9933 FF9966 FF9999 FF99CC FF99FF
00CC00 00CC33 00CC66 00CC99 00CCCC 00CCFF 33CC00 33CC33 33CC66 33CC99 33CCCC 33CCFF
66CC00 66CC33 66CC66 66CC99 66CCCC 66CCFF 99CC00 99CC33 99CC66 99CC99 99CCCC 99CCFF
CCCC00 CCCC33 CCCC66 CCCC99 CCCCCC CCCCFF FFCC00 FFCC33 FFCC66 FFCC99 FFCCCC FFCCFF
00FF00 00FF33 00FF66 00FF99 00FFCC 00FFFF 33FF00 33FF33 33FF66 33FF99 33FFCC 33FFFF
66FF00 66FF33 66FF66 66FF99 66FFCC 66FFFF 99FF00 99FF33 99FF66 99FF99 99FFCC 99FFFF
CCFF00 CCFF33 CCFF66 CCFF99 CCFFCC CCFFFF FFFF00 FFFF33 FFFF66 FFFF99 FFFFCC FFFFFF

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