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html extension (e.g. filename.html). If you want, you
can go up to File in Netscape, select Open page, and
type in your full filename (include the directory and
drive) to see your page (or just click on browse and
navigate to your page). To return to this page, click on
the back button in Netscape.
What does it mean?
You've typed in some information, but some of you may
be curious as to why you typed the parts that you did.
Here's an explanation:
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HTML, or HyperText Mark-up Language, is the
language that Netscape uses to interpret yourcommands.
Everything for your page must be
placed between these two commands. Notice the
backward slash mark on the second command.
With few exceptions, every command that HTML
uses has a closing command that tells it when to
stop the command. For example, if you want to
bold some text, you would put some text.
"some text" would be bolded, but anything beyond
the command would not. If you are familiar
with WordPerfect codes which you access using
Alt-F3 in WordPerfect, think of HTML codes in the
same manner.
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Except for the title, heading information is hidden
from the viewer. You can also include what are
called meta tags in the header information that will
tell search engines keywords about your webpage
and also a description.
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If you've worked with Windows very much, you will
notice that every window has a title bar at the top
which is normally in a different color. Netscape has
this as well. What you type between these two
commands will appear in that title bar. For
example, the title of this page is HTML Tutorial -
Creating a Title. You can't put any spaces between
the codes and your title because of the way the
HTML Tutorial - Creating a Title
http://www.cameron.edu/~julie/tutorial/title.h
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Cameron index program works. If you were to put
a space before your title, your title would appear in
a column all of its own before the A's. (Obviously, if
you are not going to put your page on Cameron
University's webserver, you don't have to worry
about the spaces.)
, This command will surround the bulk of your
document. Similar to the HEAD command, the
BODY command simply indicates to Netscape to
place the information inside the window. (Whereas
the HEAD command tells Netscape to place the
information in the title bar.)
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H stands for header. HTML uses six different sizes
of headers with the smallest number being the
largest type. More than likely you will want yourfirst header to
be the same as your title. However,
if you want something else here, feel free to go
back into your Notepad file and change it to
whatever you wish. For example, my header is
simply The Titlewhereas my title is Creating a
Title. Headers are automatically sized and bolded.
Here are examples of the sizes of headers available.
Header 1Header 2
Header 3
Header 4
Header 5
Header 6
Ready to move on? Click on the forward button below to
move to the next question (What type of information will
be on your page?) or the back button to return to the
HTML Tutorial - Creating a Title
http://www.cameron.edu/~julie/tutorial/title.h
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