Creating Your First HTML File

If it is not open already, launch your text editor program (probably notepad).

Enter the following text:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>A Brief History of The Internet</title>
</head>

<body>
In this lesson you will use the Internet to research the HISTORY of the Internet, and create a web-based report.
</body>
</html>

You have inserted a comment tag that lists your name as the creator of the document (for my class). Remeber: You could write anything in between the comment tags but it is only visible when you look at the source HTML for a web page. You can view the code that made THIS page by clicking View then Source. Try it now: search for the special comment I hid JUST FOR YOU!