When viewed in Netscape or Internet Explorer, the next section of this page looks the same as the true source code for the Exercise 1 file looks when it is edited with a word processor.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>HTML Exercise 1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
<P>
<BR>
[The interesting stuff will go here.]
<P>
<BR>
<HR SIZE=1>
<P>
Dick Piccard revised this template file
(http://www.ohiou.edu/pagemasters/class/html1/exercise1.html)
on October 29, 2000.
<P>
Please E-Mail comments or suggestions to "<A
HREF="mailto:acatec@www.ohiou.edu">acatec@www.ohiou.edu</A>".
<P>
<HR SIZE=1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Now, while viewing this page in your browser, please perform the following steps:
- Use the mouse to select the HTML displayed above.
- Choose "Copy" from the "Edit" menu.
- Start your text editor, and if necessary create a new document.
- Choose "Paste" from the "Edit" menu.
- Save the file as a text file, in the following location: on your floppy disk, into the "NEWHTML" folder, into the "pagemasters" folder, into the "class" folder, into the "HTML1" folder.
- Edit the file to use your own name, your own E-mail address (two places), and the current date.
- Save the file again, to preserve those changes.
- Switch back to your browser and use the mouse to open the page you just saved (in Netscape: File menu, Open, Page in Navigator; in Windows Internet Explorer: File menu, Open, then click on "Browse"; in Macintosh Internet Explorer: File menu, Open File).
- Switch back and forth between your editor and your browser, until you are comfortable with the correlation between the HTML and the displayed page. Do not be concerned about the details of the tags inside the BODY section yet, we will be discussing them in more detail as the class progresses.
When you are done, you can use the browser's "Back" button to return.
Dick Piccard revised this template file (http://www.ohiou.edu/pagemasters/class/html1/exercise1source.html) on October 29, 2000.
Please E-Mail comments or suggestions to "acatec@www.ohiou.edu".