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Quick and Easy Website Setup,
The sooner you get a website setup, the sooner you
will get Free Traffic from the Search Engines.
Create a website on your computer
Create a Website on Your
Computer with Free Tools
Here’s some help with HTML, using
tools that most of us already have.
Notepad is found in all
Windows. Look for it under Start, Programs, Accessories.
It is a simple text editor that works exactly the way
that HTML pages like. Now, you probably know that
Microsoft’s FrontPage is my favorite HTML editor. But
Notepad (along a little help that I am going to give
you) will make you able to create a website on your own
computer in just minutes.
The other tool that you probably
have already is Internet Explorer. It will
display the HTML pages that you create. Notepad creates
and edits pages and IE displays them.
Now you are going to use it to surf
your own website, as it exists right on your own
computer.
Work in Two Windows
So you open Notepad in one Window
or open it by clicking it again and you can have two (or
more) windows open, with each having it’s own page. Then
after you create the first page and save it to someplace
easy to get to, like C:\mysite\index.html. Open My
Computer and navigate to that directory. Double-click
on the file name. That should open index.html in
Internet Explorer. Another way to accomplish the same
thing is to open IE, and type in the address box c:\index.html.
So you Edit your webpage in
the Notepad window, and you View the page in
Internet Explorer.
How to Open HTML files in
Notepad
Notepad wants to save everything as
a text (with a .txt file extension). But if you type
index.html as the file name to save as, it will save it
that way for you. The problem comes when you want to
open an HTML file. If you choose file open, the list
will, only show .txt files. At the bottom of that window
are 3 text boxes. In the one labeled Files of Type,
click the down arrow and choose All Files.
Edit the HTML File
Now, go back to the Notepad window
and just type something in between the <body> and the
</body> “tags”, as they are called. Most HTML elements
have matching start and ending tags. The slash indicates
the ending tag.
View the Changed Page
Go back to the Internet Explorer
window. From the Menu bar, choose View – Refresh. (Or,
just press the F5 key or, click the Refresh Button).
This will cause Internet Explorer to get a new copy of
the file.
Get HTML Starter Pages
Download this zip file to get an
Example Website that will help you see how simple it is
to create one. It has HTML that you can copy and use to
create your own personal website on your computer. Just
click the link below.
http://dollarware.us/mysite.zip
View it on the web from this link:
http://dollarware.us/html-starter-pages/
To get HTML tips, instructions
and explanations, bit by bit, for free, send a blank
e-mail to:
tips-subscribe@dollarware.us
You will get an e-mail asking you
to confirm your subscription. Just click on the link
in the e-mail to confirm.
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