Basic Web Page Writing Step 2

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Basic Web Page Writing Step 2
Adding Basic Text to Your Page

In step 1 you created the basic outline for building your web page. In this step you will add text to the document and also see how to view what you have completed. From there we will add some features that will dress up the document to make it look more interesting.

The basic outline for your web page looks like the following..

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> My Template </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>


</BODY>
</HTML>

Adding Text

You will now add text in the body portion of the document. Between the <BODY> start-tag and the </BODY> end tag is where all your text and other items will be placed for now.

Try typing in the following text.

This is my first attempt at adding text to my document. The text will automatically wrap around to the next line no matter how it is typed in. It could be one very long line or several short lines, but without any tags markers it will always look the same.

You will notice that you can type in the as shown above or like it is typed in below, it makes no difference since both will display the same.

This is my first attempt at adding text to my document. 
The text will automatically wrap around to the next line no matter
 how it is typed in. It could be one very long line or several
 short lines, but without any tags markers it will always look
 the same.

The above as it would appear without any tags to make it look different is shown below.

Saving and Viewing your Document

Add some text you your template.htm file, then save it as webpage.htm. This way you will have you template.htm to use later for other pages you create.
Now open your Browser such as Netscape.
Go to the File option and Open the file webpage.htm. Netscape will display only the text that you have typed in. None of the tags will appear nor will you see what you typed in for a TITLE in step 1. You can try these steps anytime to see just how your document will look. If you make changes without exiting out of the browser click on the reload button so the changes take effect since most browsers will remember a page and not load it automatically each time.

You have now added some simple text to the basic structure of your web page. Now you will see how to format the text so that it appears the way you want it to.

STEP 3 -- Formatting Text

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