Creating Your Own Web Page

Kimberly C. Walls, Nov. 2, 1996

Last revised July 27, 1998

2. Creating a template

The basic template

The following template it taken from a great program, HTML Vocabulary, by Carl Bäckström (available from several Internet sites for Macintosh only). Start your favorite text editingprogram (such as SimpleText , BBEdit, or Notepad) and cut and paste the text below into your program.

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Title</TITLE></HEAD>

<H1><CENTER> Header </CENTER></H1>

Text

<HR><ADDRESS> Last updated ... <BR> <A HREF=mailto:your email>Mail me!</a> </ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>

Sprucing it up

Replace Title with the name of the file as you wish it to appear in the window title bar. Ignore the tag for now. Replace Header with the title as you wish it to appear on the page. Skip Text, and replace Last updated ... With Last updated and today's date. Replace your email with your email address (e.g.: wallski@mail.auburn.edu).

The <HR>tag will create a rule or a horizontal line across the page when you view it with a browser. The <H1> and </H1> denote the start and end of text that is Header Size 1. <ADDRESS> denotes a text style. The <A HREF=mailto:> denotes a link to send a message to an email address. The <CENTER> and </CENTER> tags indicate the beginning and end of centered text. <HTML> </HTML> denotes a HTML type of file. <HEADER> </HEADER> marks information not displayed by the browser in the window. <BODY> </BODY> denotes information in a HTML file that is displayed by the browser in the window.