Beyond the Son of Filamentality

Finding and Working with the HTML File

The first step to playing with HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to coolify your Web page is to find it (the HTML). This is easily done. See, HTML is a text file that hides behind a browser (like Netscape). It's the smarts that lets you show all the colors, graphics, sizes and styles of the World Wide Web. So, we need to "look under the hood," to get at the guts of HTML.

Start by looking at your Web page through the graphical browser (like Netscape), then:
  1. Go to the menubar and do something like "View - Source or Document Source."
view- source

This will get you into the yucky, slashy, kinda neat, brackety world of HTML:

example of a page of HTML

What you'll do throughout your editing of a Web page is flip back and forth between the HTML window and the browser window so you might want to overlap the windows a wee bit. This way it's easy to flip from one to the other by clicking on the window you want to make active.

flipping between HTML and the Browser

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Education First - Pacific Bell - SDSU Last revised May 21, 1996
By the SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellows
Applications Design Team/Wired Learning
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