Creating your first HTML document is one of the most satisfying moments for any new web designer. Here’s how to do it in 60 seconds!
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60 seconds?!
This is part of a series of quick video tutorials on Envato Tuts+. We’re aiming to introduce a range of subjects, all in 60 seconds–just enough to whet your appetite. Let us know in the comments what you thought of this video and what else you’d like to see explained in 60 seconds!
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Creating your very first HTML document
is one of the most satisfying moments
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for a new web designer. Here's how to do
it in sixty seconds. First create a new
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file and name it index.html. Open the file
in a plain text editor like Notepad or
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ideally a code editor like Sublime Text.
On the first line add this doctype code.
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Now add opening and closing HTML tags, like
this. This forward slash means this is a closing
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tag. Now add a head section with these tags. It’s
going to contain meta data about this
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document.
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Add a body section with these tags. This is
going to hold what gets displayed in the
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browser window. In the head add title tags
and type “my first HTML document” inside
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them. In the body add p tags and type
“this is a paragraph” inside. Now go to a
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browser, open your file, and check out
what you just made. That's your first
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HTML document in 60 seconds.
