Learn how to Create Websites on Kids Wiki!!

For the first time ever, Kids Wiki is proud to present it's very first tutorial on making websites using HTML. To begin with, you can practice HTML code on a simple text editor, such as Notepad or Dreamweaver.

What is HTML?
HTML is what we call a markup language that stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is used for creating web pages and websites. It is a language of markup tags, which are pieces of coding used to describe

websites.The coding uses angle brackets, something like  . There is text between angle brackets that describe the web page. To view the HTML coding on a website, click on "View" at the top of your computer screen and find "Page Source". OK, let's get ready to learn

how to make websites!

Getting Started
What You'll Need

To learn HTML, you don't need any tools to get started. All you need is a simple text

editor like Notepad. But you coan also use a HTML editor like Dreamweaver, but to get started, you should start off with Notepad.

Also, if you want to have a test web to get started, copy the following files:

mainpage.htm

page1.htm

page2.htm

After those files are copied, click on mainpage.htm to see your first website in the flesh.

That's it! You are ready to go!!

Practicing
HTML Headings

To create a heading, see this example:

Example
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Example
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Paragraphs

To make a paragraph, type in the angle brackets with the text in front of it, then type in the   tag.

Example
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Example
Try it yourself » note:You cannot create HTML headings by making text bold.

Links

Links are text that provide shortcuts to other web pages. To make one, type in This is a link.

Images

To add images to your website, type in the following:

Example
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From that point on, you know all the basic HTML coding to make a good-looking website.

HTML Elements
HTML Elements is everything in HTML coding, including the start and end tags. When coding HTML, be careful about how you type any kind of tag.

HTML Document Example
This is my first paragraph

note: For the   element, you can also use upper-case p's. You can forget the

tags depending on which browser you use, but any future versions of HTML will not allow you to skip them.

Attributes
Some HTML elements contain attributes, such as links.

Attribute Example
HTML links are defined with the  tag. The link address is provided as an attribute:

Example
Try it yourself » Some times, you can use single quotes for attributes, but only on rare occasions.

You can find a complete list of legal HTML attributes at the Complete HTML Reference page.

Publishing your website
If you want your website to appear on the internet, you will need to publish it.

See this link for more:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_webserver.asp

Congratoulations!
You have learned enough HTML code to create your very first website!

To learn more about HTML coding and website making, take the following link:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp