Html first lesson

In this first lesson, you will present briefly the tools needed for creating websites.

What is needed?

You probably already have everything you need. Have a "browser". The browser is a program that makes it possible to browse and open websites. Right now looking at this page in your browser.

No matter which browser you use. The most popular is Microsoft Internet Explorer. But there are many others such as Opera or Mozilla Firefox and you can use you want.

You might have heard, or you are using programs such as Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver or even Microsoft Word, which can - or claim that they can - create websites for you. For the duration of this course, forget about them! They are not any help to you when learning how to code your own website.

Instead, you need a simple text editor.


If you are using Windows you can use Notepad, which you can find in the Start menu, under Programs in Accessories: How to find Notepad If you are not using Windows, you can use a similar simple text editor. For example, Pico (Linux) or TextEdit (Mac).

Notepad is a very basic tool, but is excellent for coding because it does not affect in any way for what you write, it gives you complete control.

The problem with many programs, "creating" side is that they have many functions, but everything has to match the standards of these functions. Thus, such programs often fail to create a web page exactly as you want. Or - even more onerous - modify the code you wrote. With Notepad or other simple text editors, only yourself to thank for all the successes and mistakes.

A browser and Notepad (or similar text editor) are all you need to go through this tutorial and create your own web pages.

Do I need to be connected to the Internet?

You do not need to be connected to the Internet - neither while reading this course, or when creating websites. If you want to avoid being online while reading this course, you can simply print it out or disconnect from the Internet while reading on the screen. You can also save your page to disk and upload it to the Internet when it is completed.