2. Working with Web Page Files

In This Chapter

Planning Your Site

Creating a New Web Page

Saving Your Web Page

Specifying a Default Page or Homepage

Editing Web Pages

Organizing Files

Viewing Your Page in a Browser

The Inspiration of Others

Before you start writing HTML elements and attributes, it’s important to know how to create the files in which you’ll use such code. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create, edit, and save Web page files. I’ll also touch on some planning and organizational considerations.

If you can’t stand waiting any longer and already know how to create the actual files, skip ahead to Chapter 3 where I begin to explain the HTML code itself.

Planning Your Site

Although you can just jump in and start writing Web pages ...

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