Make a Web Page – HTML

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2 Make a Web Page – HTML

First Step Towards the Cloud

Cloud technology is based on the World Wide Web. The first step towards understanding the World Wide Web is to make your own web page. You can do that right now. Web pages are based on HyperText Markup Language (HTML). HTML uses code to format text. The phrase in angle brackets – < > – are called tags. The example code below shows some basic HTML tags.

1) Copy the code below to your clipboard.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Welcome to my Web Page</h1>
<p>My name is (put your name here).</p>

</body>
</html>

2) Open a text document. (On Windows, you can use Notepad.)

3) Paste the code onto a blank text document.

4) Customize the text (like by changing your name).

5) Save the file as type .html.

Save a file as HTML