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How to Create a Simple Web Page with HTML

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This wikiHow teaches you how to write a simple web page with HTML (hypertext markup language). HTML is one of the core components of the World Wide Web, making up the structure of web pages. Once you’ve created your web page, you can save it as an HTML document and view it in your web browser. Creating an HTML page is possible using basic text editors found on both Windows and Mac computers.

Adding a Head to Your HTML

Type in and press ↵ Enter . This tells the web browser that this is an HTML document. [1] X Research source

Type in and press ↵ Enter . This is the tag that opens your HTML head. The HTML head information that is not usually displayed on your web page. This information can include, the title, meta data, CSS style sheets, and other scripting languages. [2] X Research source

Type and press ↵ Enter . This is the tag to close your head. Your HTML code should look something like this.

 html> head> title>My Web Pagetitle> head> 

Adding a Body and Text to Your HTML

Type in below the closed «Head» tag. This tag opens the body of your HTML document. Everything that goes in the HTML body displays on the web page.

Type in . This is the tag to add a heading to your HTML document. A Heading is large bold text that typically goes at the top of your HTML document.

Add additional headings as you go. There are six different headings that you can create by using the through tags. These create headings of different sizes. For example, to create three different-sized headings in succession, you might write the following:

h1>Welcome to My Page!h1> h2>My name is Bob.h2> h3>I hope you like it here.h3> 

Type

. This is the tag to open a paragraph. Paragraph text is used to display normal sized text.

Type some text. This can be a description for your web page or any other information you wish to share.

Type

after your text and press ↵ Enter . This the tag to close your paragraph text. The following is an example of paragraph text in HTML:

• You can add multiple paragraph lines in a row in order to create a series of paragraphs under one heading.
• You can change the color of any text by framing the text with the and tags. Make sure to type your preferred color into the «color» section (you’ll keep the quotes). You can turn any text (e.g., headers) into a different color with this set of tags. For example, to turn a paragraph’s text blue, you would write the following code:

  Whales are majestic creatures.

• You can add bolds, italics and other text formats using HTML. The following are examples of how you can format text using HTML tags: [3] X Research source

b>Bold textb> i>Italic texti> u>Underlined textu> sub>Subscript textsub> sup>Superscript textsup> 

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How TO — Make a Website

Learn how to create a responsive website that will work on all devices, PC, laptop, tablet, and phone.

Create a Website from Scratch

A «Layout Draft»

It can be wise to draw a layout draft of the page design before creating a website:

Navigation bar

Side Content

Main Content

Footer

First Step — Basic HTML Page

HTML is the standard markup language for creating websites and CSS is the language that describes the style of an HTML document. We will combine HTML and CSS to create a basic web page.

Example

My Website

A website created by me.

Example Explained

• The declaration defines this document to be HTML5
• The element is the root element of an HTML page
• The element contains meta information about the document
• The element specifies a title for the document
• The element should define the character set to be UTF-8
• The element with name=»viewport» makes the website look good on all devices and screen resolutions
• The element contains the styles for the website (layout/design)
• The element contains the visible page content
• The element defines a large heading
• The

  element defines a paragraph

Creating Page Content

Inside the element of our website, we will use our «Layout Draft» and create:

• A header
• A navigation bar
• Main content
• Side content
• A footer

Header

A header is usually located at the top of the website (or right below a top navigation menu). It often contains a logo or the website name:

Then we use CSS to style the header:

.header <
padding: 80px; /* some padding */
text-align: center; /* center the text */
background: #1abc9c; /* green background */
color: white; /* white text color */
>

/* Increase the font size of the element */
.header h1 font-size: 40px;
>

Navigation Bar

A navigation bar contains a list of links to help visitors navigating through your website:

Use CSS to style the navigation bar:

/* Style the top navigation bar */
.navbar overflow: hidden; /* Hide overflow */
background-color: #333; /* Dark background color */
>

/* Style the navigation bar links */
.navbar a float: left; /* Make sure that the links stay side-by-side */
display: block; /* Change the display to block, for responsive reasons (see below) */
color: white; /* White text color */
text-align: center; /* Center the text */
padding: 14px 20px; /* Add some padding */
text-decoration: none; /* Remove underline */
>

/* Right-aligned link */
.navbar a.right float: right; /* Float a link to the right */
>

/* Change color on hover/mouse-over */
.navbar a:hover background-color: #ddd; /* Grey background color */
color: black; /* Black text color */
>

Content

Create a 2-column layout, divided into a «side content» and a «main content».

We use CSS Flexbox to handle the layout:

/* Ensure proper sizing */
* box-sizing: border-box;
>

/* Column container */
.row <
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
>

/* Create two unequal columns that sits next to each other */
/* Sidebar/left column */
.side flex: 30%; /* Set the width of the sidebar */
background-color: #f1f1f1; /* Grey background color */
padding: 20px; /* Some padding */
>

/* Main column */
.main <
flex: 70%; /* Set the width of the main content */
background-color: white; /* White background color */
padding: 20px; /* Some padding */
>

Then add media queries to make the layout responsive. This will make sure that your website looks good on all devices (desktops, laptops, tablets and phones). Resize the browser window to see the result.

/* Responsive layout — when the screen is less than 700px wide, make the two columns stack on top of each other instead of next to each other */
@media screen and (max-width: 700px) .row <
flex-direction: column;
>
>

/* Responsive layout — when the screen is less than 400px wide, make the navigation links stack on top of each other instead of next to each other */
@media screen and (max-width: 400px) .navbar a float: none;
width: 100%;
>
>

Tip: To create a different kind of layout, just change the flex width (but make sure that it adds up to 100%).

Tip: Do you wonder how the @media rule works? Read more about it in our CSS Media Queries chapter.

Tip: To learn more about the Flexible Box Layout Module, read our CSS Flexbox chapter.

What is box-sizing?

You can easily create three floating boxes side by side. However, when you add something that enlarges the width of each box (e.g. padding or borders), the box will break. The box-sizing property allows us to include the padding and border in the box’s total width (and height), making sure that the padding stays inside of the box and that it does not break.

You can read more about the box-sizing property in our CSS Box Sizing Tutorial.

Footer

At last, we will add a footer.

.footer <
padding: 20px; /* Some padding */
text-align: center; /* Center text*/
background: #ddd; /* Grey background */
>

Congratulations! You have built a responsive website from scratch.

W3Schools Spaces

If you want to create your own website and host your .html files, try our website builder, called W3schools Spaces:

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Simple one page html site

A random photo. (The Hudson River at 125th Street about 2002)

Frank da Cruz
Updated in 2019 and 2021 for HTML5 and «fluidity».

CONTENTS

1. Creating a Web Page
2. HTML Syntax
3. Special Characters
4. Converting Plain Text to HTML
5. Effects
6. Lists
7. Links
8. Tables
9. Viewing your Web page
10. Installing your Web Page on the Internet
11. Where to go from here
12. Postscript: Cell Phones

You can create a Web page on your desktop computer but nobody can see it but you. If your want other people to be able to see your Web pages, you need an account on a computer that has a Web server. Nowadays most people have their own computers on their desks, but normally they don’t have Web servers and anyway you don’t want the whole world coming into your desktop computer to see your web page because (a) it’s not designed for that, and (b) who knows what else they might see. And (c) for security reasons, Web servers should be managed by professionals. Most institutions have big central shared computers for this purpose, which usually have a Unix-like operating system such as Linux. You need an account on one of these so you can put your web pages there. If you don’t have access to such a computer, you can get a low-cost account on a service like Panix.com.

You can still create Web pages on your own computer and look at them with your computer’s Web browser, but for other people to see them, you have to upload them to the «big» computer that has the Web browser. The rest of this document is about how to create your first Web page.

1. Creating a Web Page

This page was typed by hand. Anybody can do this, you don’t need any special «web creation» tools or HTML editors, and the pages you make can be viewed from any browser. To see how this page was made, choose View Source (or View Page Source, or View Document Source) in your browser’s menu (or — in at least Chrome and Firefox — Ctrl-U on your keyboard). A simple web page like this one is just plain text with HTML commands (markup) mixed in. HTML commands (properly called «tags») themselves are plain text.

When you’re just learning and want to experiment, you can do everything on your PC. Create a new directory («folder») for your website, and then put the web-page files (HTML plus any pictures) in it. Use NotePad or other plain-text editor (not word processor) on your PC to create your «home page», a file named index.html , which you can view locally with your Web browser. (You can also use a word processors such as Word or WordPad if you save in «plain text», «text», «text document», or «text document MS-DOS format».) Later I’ll explain how you can install your web site on the Internet.

Once you’ve made your «home page» (index.html) you can add more pages to your site, and your home page can link to them.

2. HTML Syntax

Web pages are written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). HTML has three special characters: < , & , >. An HTML command is enclosed in <. >, for example

, which is a paragraph separator, or («begin bold») and («end bold»). So the following HTML text:

This sentence contains bold text.

A Web page starts with a series of HTML commands, and ends with a few more. The contents go in between:

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