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Learning How to Create Web PagesWeb pages are nothing more than simple text files with special codes inserted into the text to tell a Web Browser how to display it. You create Web pages using any text editor or Word Processor (if you use a word processor, be sure to save the file as "text only" or "ascii"). All you need to learn is what those special codes are. Those codes are called "tags", and they are defined by a standard called HTML (HyperText Markup Language). A tag is nothing more that a letter or word enclosed in angle brackets (< >). In order to make a word bold, for example, you simply surround the word with the "b" tags: <b> starts bolding and </b> stops it. All the tags work in a similar fashion. Your first step should be to read one of the beginner's guides listed below to learn what all of the HTML tags are and how to use them. While you are learning the tags, You should take some time to look at the actual text files that the Web browser reads in order to display the page. You can do that right now to see the text file I typed in order to give you this page. Just use the command in your browser's menus which tells it to view the document source. Each browser words this command a little differently. In Netscape go to the "View" menu and use the "Document Source" command. Whenever you go to a Web page which lays out text and graphics the way you like, use your Document Source command and take a look at the tags which that author used. Once you get used to HTML read some of the pages listed under "Advanced" below, and by all means read the "Style Guides", especially the "Web Wonk". Happy authoring! Beginner's GuidesAdvanced/Reference
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