To begin writing a web page, you need to open Notepad, or
some other HTML editor. There are links listed under Resources
for other editors available for download. Notepad works
fine, and as a matter of fact, all of these pages were
created using Notepad.
The first page you save should always be named,
"index.html". Always use the file extension of
.html so web browsers
will recognize them as a document they can read.
Some servers require you to use a name like "default.html" or
"home.html," but the most common is "index.html," so that is
what we will use. If your server tells you otherwise,
then correct the name prior to uploading your web pages to
page will be page that comes up by default when
someone types in your domain name or your directory name
where your web account is located. For example, when
someone types in
http://members.tripod.com/~MommyAnn in their location,
or address bar, it will take them to my
After the initial page, you can name any page anything you
want to. When you are ready to "publish" your pages, or
upload them to your server, you will put them all in the
same directory and links will point to the other page addresses.
So, if you named a page, "whatever.html"
or "page2.html", when you learn
to create links, just point them to the pages using the
names you give to your additional pages. Use file names
that will mean something to you and help you know which
pages are which.