Task 1 – Creating the page skeleton

This task guides you through creating the required parts of a web page.

Step 1. Start up the Notepad editor by double-clicking the program icon.

Step 2. Type in the text below

<BODY>

</BODY>

</HTML>

Step 3. Enter your page title between the title Tags.

Notice the <HTML> and </HTML> tags at the top and bottom. These mark the beginning and end of the web page. It begins and ends the web page content.

When you add an HTML tag you usually have to close it off with the ending. (Usually the same as the start, but with a “/” before the letters)

The <HEAD> and </HEAD> just tell your browser it’s at the heading of the page. The “information” like the title is contained here.

Between the <TITLE> and </TITLE> is where you type the text you want to appear for the window name on the browser. Note that this title does NOT appear ONthe web page.

Step 4.The cursor should be positioned between the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags, so type the title you want to use.

Step 5.Save this skeleton file with the name index.html before moving on to task 2. It is important to use the name index.html as the name for your main page as that is the filename which the server looks for if a filename is omitted from the URL. For example, the URL http://www.stac.ac.uk/ is an abbreviated URL and the web server will actually try to find a web page called http://www.stac.ac.uk/index.html.

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