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Step 1 : Getting Started

Introduction
If you've been on the net for a while, you've used email, chatted up strangers, surfed interesting sites, and also shopped online. Now its time to announce your presence on the internet (World Wide Web) with a homepage.

What's a Homepage?

A homepage is a page on the internet for displaying to the world information on any topic you choose or are involved in. A personal homepage will have your personal details while a business homepage will have information regarding your business.

Consider your homepage to be your home on the internet where people will visit and find out more about you and your interests. You can have anything on your homepage from your personal resume to your favorite music or information about your pet. Anything is possible !!!


Terms to Know

WWW : World Wide Web
The internet as a whole is called the World Wide Web. Hence the extension www in the URL addresses. It is a widely used term and you will come across it quite often.

HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
It is the basic language in which webpages are coded or created. It consists of information formatted with tags or special commands. It is a simple and easy to use language and some basic knowledge of it is essential if you are creating your homepage.

Browser
A program used to load, view, and interact with Web documents. The most famous examples of browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator.

Content
The actual information in a document - all of the words, images, and links which a user can read and interact with.

Hyperlink
A link from one document to another, or to any resource, or within a document. The hyperlinked text is highlighted in some fashion. The default is usually blue, underlined text, but your display may vary.

URL : Uniform Resource Locator
It is a standard way of expressing the location and data type of a resource on the net. The resource could be a webpage, image etc.
Eg. This URL points to the Rediff homepage,
http://www.rediff.com

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Tags Explained

HTML is composed of different tags. HTML tags are always enclosed in angle-brackets < > and are case-insensitive; that is, it doesn't matter whether you type them in upper or lower case. As a rule tags are always upper case, because it makes the tags easier to pick out in a document, but it is not compulsory to use uppercase.

Tags typically occur in begin-end pairs. These pairs are in the form

<tag> ... </tag>

where the indicates the beginning of a tag-pair, and the indicates the end. (The three dots indicate an arbitrary amount of content between the tags). The usual way to refer to each tag is "tag" for the first and "slash-tag" for the second, where tag is the actual name of the tag being discussed.

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HTML Editors

As you begin your journey into HTML you must first decide what vehicle you will want to use. In other words you have to decide what editor you will be using to write, edit, create and view your HTML code. The decision should be based on your level of understanding of HTML, ease of use, special features etc. Do you choose a no frills editor like Notepad or do you use a feature rich but more difficult to master editor like Homesite or Hotdog.

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