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• 1.  Style Application
• 2.  Setting Up a Web Site
• 3.  Set the Doctype
• 4.  Make a Blank Web Page
• 5.  External Style Sheet
• 6.  Designing a Web Page
• 7.  Dynamic Web Template

 

 

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Step 3:  Make a Blank HTML Web Page

In this tutorial, we will make a blank HTML web page.  Follow these steps:

• 1.  Click File and Hover over New  (see figure 1)
• 2.  Then click on Page  (see figure 1)
• 3.  This will open a new dialog box that provides many options. 
• 4.  In the left column, choose General   (see figure 2)
• 5.  In the middle column, choose HTML
• 6.  Click OK

Figure 1

 

Figure 2

Of course, there are other ways, faster ways, to set up a blank web page.  However, I wanted to show you the New Dialog Box that you see in Figure 2. 

When you have time, it would be a good idea to take a look at the various options available in this 'New Dialog Box'.

Keep in mind, the only types of pages we will work with include the following:

• HTML - creates an HTML web page
• CSS - creates an External Style Sheet
• Text - a plain text file
• XML - a supporting document; used along with certain other files; Many Site Maps are made with XML.
• JavaScript - creates a JavaScript file that can be linked to a web page.  JavaScript is not Java.  Rather, it's a client side scripting language used to add Interactivity to web pages.  (Client Side means it is processed by the Browser.  Compare this to Server-Side which is some sort of script that is processed by the Server, as in PHP and ASP.NET.)
• Dynamic Web Template - is an HTML-based Template that contains editable regions.
• CSS Layouts - these are premade Layouts.  If you create one of these, it includes one web page and an External Style Sheet, which is already linked.
• and Style Sheets - these are premade External Style Sheets that contain a set of styles already made for you.

The remainder of pages and options are related to advanced Scripting Languages that are beyond the scope of this web site.

See "Types of Web Pages and their Purposes"

Watch the video "make a web page".

 

Step 4:  Make an External Style Sheet