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Practical Web Design
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Practical Web Design

by Philippe Hong
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
7h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating our first page

To create our first page. Click on File | New File or Command + N (or Ctrl + N for Windows).

You now have an untitled file. Let's quickly save and name it by clicking File | Save or Command + S (or Ctrl + S for Windows) and name it index.html.

Why name it index.html? Because the index.html page is the common name used for the default page shown on a website by default when a visitor requests the site. In other words, index.html is basically the name used for the homepage of the website.

Now that we have our first HTML file, we have to put the essential tags in to make it work. The essential tags should be written as follows:

<html>  <!--This is our HTML main tag--> <head> <!--This is our head tag where we put our title ...
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ISBN: 9781788395038Supplemental Content