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Basic HTML Start Page

Starting HTML code

This is the way I begin a web page (Macintosh directions).

NOTE FROM DAVE: I could make this Basic HTML Start Page available for download to make things easier for you at this time, but the following TECHNIC is very important to learn and I definitely encourge you to follow through the following steps and to learn to use them automatically.

Because you are viewing this page, I assume you are using your Web Browser, Netscape or Internet Explorer. If you are not using one of these, download one of them and put it on your hard drive. I use both of them to view my work because things work slightly different in each one and I want to make sure my web pages work right in both of them. The browser is an important tool in viewing your work with web pages. AOL users this means you!

The Technic to select, copy and paste code.

Use the Application Selector icon at the upper right of your window and select Hide Netscape Navigator (or Internet Explorer if that is the application you are using).

Create a new folder (File menu, New Folder or command n) on your Hard Drive called Web Folder (or something like that).

While you are doing this, create a new folder inside the Web Folder and name it images.
While you are still in the Finder, Launch BBEdit (or another basic text editor like Simple Text).
In the BBEdit File menu, Open New document.

Use the Application Selector icon at the upper right of your window and select Netscape.

Click and Drag over the following Basic Start Code to select it.
Select Copy from the Edit menu or use the keyboard shortcut, command c.
Use the Application Selector icon at the upper right of your window and select BBEdit.

Paste this Basic Start Code into the New BBEdit document.

Save as... (locate your Web Folder) basic.start.html.
This file will become a template for starting new pages and will save some time in setting up the basic code for a new page.

Anytime you want to start a new web page, drag this basic.start.html file on top of BBEdit and the basic code for your page will be there. (Double-clicking the basic.start.html should have the same effect.)

Immediately Save As... with a new name so that you don't inadvertently save your new page as basic.start.html and lose your template.

Now you will have to learn to use this Basic Start Page (Next page).

NOTE: The Basic Start Code begins with the first <html> line below and ends with the last </html>. These are the beginning and ending tags on every web page. Make sure you select and copy all of the code.

<html>
<head><title>Basic Start Page</title></head>

<center><h1>Basic Start Page</h1></center>

<hr>

(This is where your actual web page is entered)

<hr>

The location of this page is: <a href="location.html">location.html</a>

Email to: <a href="mailto:dthomas@pclink.com (David Thomas)"> dthomas@pclink.com (David Thomas)</a>

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</body>
</html>

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