How do you begin your foray into web design? It’s a common question and one which (for me) is impossible. I started so young that I can’t recall it at all.
There are a number of programs you could use (and would use) but to start with, I would like to show the principles and for this you can use notepad/vi/pico/whatever you like.
Create a text file called mypage.html
Within that, typethe following:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”my, first, xhtml,web, page, webpage” />
<meta name=”description” content=”This is my first XHTML page” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow” />
<meta name=”author” content=”MyName” />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en” />
</head>
<body>
<!–This is a comment and comments
do not show up in the browser –>
Here is my first XHTML page
</body>
</html>
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