First Webpage Guide

This short guide is for those people who have no experience creating web pages and want to start off with the most basic webpage creation. It will show you how to write the code, save it, and view the result in a web browser. This guide is meant as a quick run-through to creating your first webpage. If you want a more advanced in depth guide to creating your first webpage please view our step-by-step guide to creating your first HTML document.

To create your first webpage, you will copy some code into notepad or another simple text editor, save the file, and view the result in a web browser. This code is written in a language called HTML. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the most fundamental language used in webpage creation. Don't be confused by HTML or by the webpage creation process. Once you create your first webpage, it will gradually make more and more sense. And also, this tutorial explains the code to further remove the confusion.

Creating your first web Page

Copy the following HTML code into notepad or another simple text editor. The webpage may not function correctly if you don't copy the code exactly as it is here, so please make sure to do that.

HTML Code:


<html>
<head>
<title>My first webpage!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is my first webpage!</h2>
</body>
</html>

Copy the above code into notepad or another simple text editor and save the file by going to File -> Save -> Click on the 'Save as Type' drop down box and select 'All Files'. Give the file any name you like but make sure that it has a .html extension! Remember where the file was saved.

Viewing your first web page

Now that you have created your first web page, open a web browser to view it. Have you used a web browser before? Of course you have! It's that program that you use to view websites! A web browser is a program used to interpret HTML and display visual output based on it. The most popular web browser is Internet Explorer. There are other well known browsers too such as Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, and Opera.

To view your page, you need to open it inside the web browser. Go to File -> Open -> Navigate to your file -> Double click on it. You should now see the output of your first web page inside the web browser.