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Basic Web Page Design

Open Notepad (or Simple Text on a Mac).

Then at the top select file, then Save as, and save it as index.php. This will be your homepage (very basic).

Then type the lines below (but not anything in green print, the green print is there to explain what we're doing)

<html>
This starts it all.

<head>
Begins the header that contains page descriptions

<title>Your title goes right here</title>
The title of your page, the user will only see "Your title goes right here" or whatever is between the <title> and </title> html markups.

</head>
Ends the header information

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
Sets up the background as white and lets the browser know that all information below is to be viewed as the "body" of the page

This is my homepage
What the user will see on your homepage. You can add as much text here as you would like.

<a href="mailto:username@bright.net>E-mail me</a> this sets up an e-mail link (replace username with your username)

</body> closes the body of the html document.

</html> ends the code

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