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Baby Homepage
Now we are going to take our first steps toward putting together
a personal homepage for the Web.
The language of the Web is called Hypertext, and our homepage
will actually be a little program written in Hypertext. We will
learn more about Hypertext later, but as you will see, we don't
need to know too much about it to begin to do some interesting things.
Constructing a Simple Hypertext Document
If you haven't opened a second browser window already, do so now
(by selecting "New Web Browser" from the "File" pulldown menu).
- Use your mouse to copy the following text between the horizontal
lines:
<html>
<head>
<title>
Baby Homepage for Jane Doe
</title>
</head>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#000030" TEXT="#ff0000"
LINK="#00ffff" VLINK="#00ffff" ALINK="#FF0000">
<center>
<font size="+4">
<b>Local Home Page for Jane Doe</b>
</font>
</center>
<b>
<h1>Some Favorite Web Sites:</h1>
<ol>
<li>
<a href=
"http://www.alco.org/">
Access LaPorte County</a>
<p>
<li>
<a href="http://www.laportecounty.net">
LaPorte County Net</a>
</ol>
</b>
</body>
</html>
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- Open an editor like Notepad or WordPad and
paste the text copied with the mouse into the editing window.
Save as a new file under the name index.html in your
home directory. Now edit this file, replacing the two instances
of "Jane Doe" with your name, save the corrections, and hide the
editor window.
- Use the Browser to open this file in the second browser window
by selecting "Open..." from the "File" pulldown menu and navigating
accordingly. This should display something like the following,
but with your name inserted in place of Jane's:
- While still displaying this file, use the mouse to copy the
URL address appearing in the Address window.
- Open the "Navigation" tab in "Options"
(under the "View" menu), select "Start Page" in the dropdown list
next to "Page:"; and use the mouse to paste the address into the
window for the homepage location (see figure below).
- Click "OK" to exit "Options".
Now click the "Home" button on the browser; if everything has gone
well, your new personalized homepage should come up as the default
homepage. Now every time that you launch the Browser your new homepage
will come up as the default document.
Congratulations, Budding Webmeister!
You have just constructed a rudimentary homepage! But this is just
the beginning. As we proceed through the tutorial we will add additional
pieces to this homepage so that when we are through it will be a
personalized template for your use in general Web page design. Ya
ain't seen nothin' yet!
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