Part Three: Customizing Your Webpage


Did you notice that all the information between the HTML tags shows up on the webpage but the tags do not? That's what HTML does, the browser recognizes the coding of the tags and displays the information between the tags in the browser page. You now need to change the name of your webpage and the text. If you already have a theme, then this should be easy.

NOTE: Do not delete or remove any of the tags, just what is between them.
1) In Wordpad, open the document "template.html".
2) Between the TITLE tags delete "My First Webpage" and type in the name you wish to name your webpage (i.e. The Kiska Family Website).
3) Between the FONT tags delete "This is my first webpage" and enter what you wish the heading to be.
4) Delete "This website is about me, myself and I" and type in some information about yourself or your theme. Do the same with I like Tom Waits.
5) In the upper left corner of Wordpad click on File and then Save. Your changes are now saved. I recommend that each time you make changes that you Save them.
6) Now go back into your browser to "template.html" And hit Refresh.

Wasn't that easy? In the next section, we will be adding a graphic or a picture to your webpage. But before you go there, please read the below tip.

Open the Wordpad document template.html. We're going to save the document as index.html. To do this click on File, click Save as..., in the File Name: type in index.html.
You will no longer be using template.html to modify your website, you will be using index.html instead. There are two reasons. Number one is that by default all website homepages are recognized as "index.html". For example, whether you type in www.yahoo.com or www.yahoo.com/index.html, Yahoo's homepage comes up.
Secondly, now you have a template for each page you make. You can always open template.html in Wordpad and save it as another HTML document (i.e. aboutme.html) and simply make changes between the tags and you don't have to type all the coding each time you decide to make a new webpage.


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