All Creative Designs
Basic
HTML for PC Tutorial Part 3
Using
MS Notepad
Revised Edition June 2010
My
First Web Page
The
third part of this tutorial explains:
How
to create another web page and link it to your home page. (The start of a
little web site)
How
to use your own images and link them
Specifying
color by Hexadecimal Code
List
of useful html tags and more
Step
1: Open your index.html file
Open
your index.html file we created in Part 2
Navigate
to your index.html file and single right click, select Open With and left click
Notepad. See figure 1
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Step
2: Creating another web page
The
index file we created in HTML tutorial part 2 (Figure 2)
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Include a link to your new
page on the index file
First we insert a link on the index page calling the new page we
will create in the next chapter.
After the mailto link type two <br /> tags
<a
href=”mailto:username@yahoo.com.au”>Contact me</a><br /><br />
Then press enter and insert line below
<a href="photopage.html">My
Photos</a><br /><br />
(Figure
3)
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Click Save under the File menu.
In
the index – Notepad file click Save As under the File menu. Navigate to your
web folder under Save in: (Use drop down
arrow). Select All Files under Save as type and then type a name for your new
page without spaces or special characters followed by .html (Make sure of identical spelling with the link in the index
page)
(Figure
4)
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Your photopage.html opens (Figure 5)
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Making changes to your photopage.html
In
your photopage.html file change the text in between the title tags to My Photo
Page then change text in between <h1> tags to My Photo Page. Select all
text as shown below and press delete on your keyboard, make sure <td>
tags stay intact. You might like to insert new text in this place describing
your web page content. Make sure text shows in between <td> and
</td> tags. Use the <br /> tag to start a new line or two
<br /> tags for an empty line. (Figure 6)
<br /> tags for an empty line. (Figure 6)
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Save
your updated web page:
In your notepad photopage.html document click file in top menu bar
and click save.
View your web page:
In windows explorer (My Computer) navigate to your
my_first_webpage folder and double left click your index.html file to view your
updated web page. There click your My Photos link and your photo page should
appear. As you might noticed there is no link back to your homepage. The next
step is to insert images and this missing link into your photo page. To use
your own images follow the Image Editing Tutorial using Picasa and save web
optimized copies into your my_first_webpage folder.
See links at end of this tutorial.
Trouble
Shooting:
Most
errors are caused by spelling mistakes and added or missing spaces in HTML
tags. Check for missing inverted comas and closing tags.
Cannot
find server
The
page cannot be displayed error message
Make
sure of identical spelling of the link in the index page with the actual name
of your photo page (i.e. photopage.html).
Step
3: Inserting a new table
This
step will create another table with one row and three cells beneath your first
table to hold more content in a different layout.
Type
this code beneath your first closing </table> closing tag and above the
</body> closing tag. The <br /> tags will force the cells to expand
before we include more content.
</table>
<table width="900" align="center"
border="1">
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
</table>
(Figure
7)
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Step
4: Include a link to your home page.
Type
this code above the text in the first table and beneath the opening <td>
tag.
<br />
<a href="index.html">Home Page</a><br
/><br />
(Figure
8)
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Save
your updated web page:
In your notepad photopage.html document click file in top menu bar
and click save.
View your web page:
In windows explorer (My Computer) navigate to your
my_first_webpage folder and double left click your photopage.html file to view
your updated web page.
(Figure
9)
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Step
5: Inserting and Linking Images
Copy
and paste your photos you prepared in the Picasa Image Tutorial or other photo
editors into the my_first_webpage root folder. You can also copy and paste more
images from our web site.
Thumbnail
images should be 150x113 px and images for the enlarged view of the same photo
should be 400x300 px or larger. (Up to 800x600 px) Remember no spaces or
special characters in image file names. Use hyphens or underscores. Only JPG,
GIF and PNG file formats will work on the net.
Delete
<br /> tags and insert images tags for your small thumbnail photos
enclosed within center tags.
<center><image src="myphoto1small.jpg"
/></center>
<center><image src="myphoto2small.jpg"
/></center>
<center><image src="myphoto3small.jpg"
/></center>
Add
background color to row.
Include
bgcolor=”black” into your row <tr> tag.
(Figure
10)
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Save
your updated web page:
In your notepad photopage.html document click File in top menu bar
and click save.
View your web page:
In windows explorer (My Computer) navigate to your
my_first_webpage folder and double left click your photopage.html file to view
your updated web page.
Linking your Images
When
your thumbnail images are clicked on the web page the enlarged view of your
photo opens.
Insert
image links by enclosing thumbnail image tag within an <a href=””> </a>
Link tag. In the href reference type the image file name of your large photo
within the inverted comas.
Include
target=”blank” if you like your large photo to open up in a new browser window.
<a href="myphoto1large.jpg"
target="blank"><image
src="daylillie_purple_tn.jpg" /></a>
<a href="myphoto2large.jpg"
target="blank"><image src="dahlia-redtn.jpg"
/></a>
<a href="myphoto3large.jpg"
target="blank"><image
src="bourgainvillia_redtn.jpg" /></a>
(Figure
11)
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Trouble
Shooting:
Most
errors are caused by spelling mistakes and added or missing spaces in HTML
tags. Check for missing inverted comas and closing tags.
Cannot
find server
The
page cannot be displayed error message
Make
sure of identical spelling of the image file name in your web folder with the
one you used in the link reference.
Making addition to your table
Insert
a new row with 3 cells containing descriptions of images.
Under
your last </tr> table row closing tag and above your closing table tag
insert code below.
<tr
bgcolor="white">
<td>Daylily</td>
<td>Dahlia</td>
<td>Bougainvillea</td>
</tr>
(Figure
12)
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Save
your updated web page:
In your notepad photopage.html document click File in top menu bar
and click save.
View your web page:
In windows explorer (My Computer) navigate to your
my_first_webpage folder and double left click your photopage.html file to view
your updated web page.
Repeat
steps 3 to 5 to create your own photo album.
Specifying color by Hexadecimal Code
The
combination of Red, Green, and Blue color
values (RGB).
Where
ff stands for maximum and 00 for minimum values
Red
Green Blue
ff 00
00
Will
show a strong red
bgcolor="#ff0000" = red
bgcolor="#00ff00" =
green
bgcolor="#0000ff" = blue
bgcolor="#000000" =
black
bgcolor="#ffffff" =
white
Find
out more about web safe colors at:
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More useful HTML tags
Description
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Actual Code
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Explanation
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Paragraph tag
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<p> </p>
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Opens and closes a paragraph in your text and add spaces above
and below
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Horizontal rule
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<hr />
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Inserts dividing line, no closing tag
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Bold text
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<b>bold text </b>
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All text in between tags turns bold
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Italic text
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<i>italic text </i>
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All text in between tags turns talic
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Font type
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<font face="verdana">verdana</font>
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Changes font to Verdana
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Font size
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<font size=”2”> </font>
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Changes font size, values are 1 to 7
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Unordered list open
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<ul>
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Opens unordered list
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First item in list
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<li>first</list>
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Opens and closes first item in list
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Second item in list
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<li>second</list>
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Opens and closes second item in list
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Unordered list closed
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</ul>
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Closes unordered list
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For
a full list go to:
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browser if viewing the PDF version
Other tutorials available from www.allcreativedesigns.com.au
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browser if viewing the PDF version
HTML Web Page Tutorial using Notepad, PDF Download Page Part 1
Free PDF HTML Tag Tutorial using Notepad, Download Page Part 2
Web
Design Tutorial using KompoZer, PDF Download Page
Picasa
Photo Editing Tutorial, Free PDF Download Page
SEO
Tutorial Basic Search Engine Optimization PDF Download Page
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