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Tutorial How to Creat a Website
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Tutorial Creating a Website

• 1. Create Website folder and image folder
• 2. Put all images in your image folder
• 3. Open Notepad (Windows)
• or
• Open TextEdit and set preferences (Macintosh)
• 4. Set up text editor and Browser display
  windows.
• 5. Copy / edit HTML in your editor.

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Step 1
Set up folders for your Website Documents websit
e-name1-name2 images
Documents
website-name1-name2
.html files .jpg files .gif files .png
files (other resource files)
images
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Step 1
Name your folders and files carefully!!!

• File naming conventions
• No CAPITAL letters!!!
• Use - not _ or not between words.
• Create long, descriptive names that have a
  hierarchy.
• - school-name-index.html
• - school-name-hobbies.html
• - school-name-games.html

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Step 2
Put images in your images folder.
You can search for .jpg or .gif or .png images in
Google and File Save them in your images
folder. You can create a drawing in PowerPoint.
File / Save As that slide as a .jpg in your
images folder. Remember to name them according
to our file naming conventions.
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How to get Notepad(Windows)
Step 3 (Windows)

1. Click on Start.
2. Click on Programs.
3. Click on Accessories.
4. Click on Notepad.

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Step 3 (Macintosh)
How to get TextEdit (Macintosh)

• In Finder go on the top menu bar to the item that
  says Go.
• Under that click Applications.
• Scroll down through that page and find the
  application called TextEdit.
• Double click to open it.

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What you will see
Macintosh Preferences Setup
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What you need to do to get text edit to write HTML
Macintosh File Format Setup

• The goal is to save your HTML code file in pure
  text format.
• Pure text files have no formatting commands.
• Rich text files have font, color, and size
  modifiers embedded in the files.

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Macintosh File Format Setup
Check Format Make Plain Text (NOT RICH TEXT)

• Go to the menu bar and click text edit.
• You will see this menu.
• Click on the item that says Preferences.

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Macintosh Preferences Setup
Preferences-Open and Save
Preferences-New Document
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HTML Text Editor Browser
Step 4
Set up your text editor and browser so you can
edit the HTML and see how the browser interprets
your edits. You must save your edits in the text
editor and then refresh the browser to view the
changes.
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How to get source code.
Step 5

• Open a simple website design you like.
• Click on View and then View Source.
• or
• Click on Page and then Source.
• Copy all the HTML code.
• Paste the HTML code into your Notepad or TextEdit
  text editors.

Tips Select all the thing Command A Copy
Command C Paste Command V
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Saving .html files (Macintosh)
Step 5 (Macintosh)

• Go to the menu bar and click Save.
• The saving screen should come up.

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• Set the spot to save the document to your website
  folder. (or save to your desktop and drag it to
  your website folder)

Step 5 (Macintosh)

• Name the document descriptively and make sure
  that at the end of the file name you put .html.
  (index.html)
• Make sure that plain text encoding is set to
  Unicode (UTF-8).
• Then click save .

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Opening .html files
Step 5

• View the .html file in your browser (IE, Chrome,
  Safari, FireFox) by double clicking on it in
  your web folder. Then select Open With and
  then your default browser.
• To edit your web page, open the .html file in
  Notepad or TextEdit
• Right click (Notepad) or Control click (TextEdit)
  on the .html file and then Open With Notepad
  orTextEdit.

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Step 5

• Change the background color and the title text
  and the image name.

File Save, then Refresh your browser to view
edits.