How to practice your HTML authoring

Dean Bridges Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:42 am

Please excuse my lack of basic understanding but the simple fact is that i have read the whole unit 4 book twice and this information is either not there or is well hiden

i am trying to practice and write my own but i can't find how to view it

it shows the coding in the book(all the <a> and </a> <title> <body> etc) and then shows what it looks like

when you create your own html page in notepad how to you view it as a web page (should i be using Notepad)

i have the full enterprise version of office 2007

i have used Frontpage with office xp in the past but this is not in the Office 2007 package? or is renamed something else any ideas

Please help it will help me understand the concept of html if i can write my own

Branty Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:16 am

Hi Dean

what extension do you use to save it as, notepad saves as .txt by default, you need to name it with a .htm to view it in a browser. If youlaready do this then thats me out of ideas

Colin

Shovinus Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:27 pm

yeh, basically you write it in txt format. then when coming to save you must save as a html file (.html or .htm)

however I have noticed that on vista if you this the wrong way i.e. first save as a txt file while editing then use save as html it often does not change it to documnet.html but instead to document.html.txt and the double extension does not work. To solve this you have to go to control panel and change the file options somewhere, cant remember where if you still have trouble I will look it up for you.

Dean Bridges Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:58 am

Shovinus wrote:yeh, basically you write it in txt format. then when coming to save you must save as a html file (.html or .htm)

however I have noticed that on vista if you this the wrong way i.e. first save as a txt file while editing then use save as html it often does not change it to documnet.html but instead to document.html.txt and the double extension does not work. To solve this you have to go to control panel and change the file options somewhere, cant remember where if you still have trouble I will look it up for you.

Thanks for all you help guys.. i was trying to use office 2007 onenote being what i thought to be the most up to date version of the notepad++ from the open university online applications disk.. i have since installed the notepad++ version and found it straight forward and easy save as... html

thanks again

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