HTML, XHTML & CSS

Chapter 2
Creating and Viewing a Web Page
In This Chapter
▶ Planning your Web page
▶ Writing some HTML
▶ Saving your page
▶ Viewing your page offline and online
Creating your very own Web page may seem daunting, but it’s definitely
fun, and experience tells us that the best way to get started is to jump
right in with both feet. You might splash around a bit at first, but you can
keep your head above water without too much thrashing.
This chapter walks you through the basic steps to create a Web page. We
don’t stop and explain every bit of markup you use — we save that for other
chapters. Instead, we want to make you comfortable working with markup
and content to create and view a suitably simple Web page.
Before You Get Started
Creating HTML documents differs from creating word processor documents
using an application like Microsoft Word because you end up having to use
two applications:
✓ You create the Web pages in your text or HTML editor.
✓ You view the results in your Web browser.
Even though many HTML editors, such as Dreamweaver and HTML-Kit,
provide a browser preview, it’s still important to preview your Web pages
inside actual Web browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari) so
you can see them as your end users do. Editing inside one application and
then switching to another to look at your work might feel odd, but you’ll
be switching from text or HTML editor to browser and back like a pro in
(almost) no time.