Hour 4. Building a Home Page: A Look Behind the Curtain

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to read and edit basic HTML code in Code view

• How to import text from Microsoft Word and other documents

• How to clean up imported code using Code and Design views

In Hour 3, “A Website Is Really Just Text: Build One in 5 Minutes,” you built a basic web page using functions similar to those in a word-processing program. But that is just half the story: In web design, what happens behind the curtain is what really matters. It’s time to learn some basic HTML and see how the code affects the content. To do this, you build the basic structure of the home page of the MyKipple site.

Opening and Editing an Existing File Using Code View

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