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software do you need to write web pages?
None! You can't just create
web pages out of thin air, but virtually everyone who has a computer has
some form of plain text editor (for example: SimpleText, Notepad or Edit),
which can be used to write web pages. This web site will show you everything
you need to get started.
An HTML document is just a text document with special instructions
in it, or tags, that tell a web browser how it should be formatted.
What this means is that you can create a web page just by typing the
appropriate tags into any text document.
In order for the computer to know that what you just typed is an html
document (e.g. "my_first_page.txt"), the document must be saved with
a name ending in ".html" instead of ".txt" (e.g. "my_first_page.html").
If in place of a plain text editor you use a word processor (for example:
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Works, AppleWorks) then you will also need
to use the Save
As... command and save your document as "Text Only with line
breaks," with the file extension ".html" instead of ".txt." Also be
sure to avoid using spaces, punctuation or special characters such as
&, ', $ in the filename. Underscores ( _ ) and hyphens ( - ) should
be used instead.
Microsoft Word has a "Save as Web Page..." feature but PLEASE
avoid using this feature. It does not create true HTML documents, so
you will have problems with some people being able to read web pages
created in this way. Writing your pages with HTML ensures that everyone
will be able to view and use them properly.
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