A business page would at least have the name of your business, perhaps a business slogan and a copyright notice together with some text. In this tutorial we add some text skills and introduce "comments" that will help you keep track of your code but are not visible on the Web.

 

The tutorials rely on the best reference HTML and related Web site coding available: W3 Schools. If you follow these tutorials along with our sample pages you will gain the same skills as the students enrolled in the college course.

Goals

HTML Coding

• Learn some text skills and how to comment using a text editor.
• Learn the alternative fonts rule.

Viewing HTML

View the page from your computer and/or upload the page to a server.

Steps

HTML Coding

• View the source of the First Business Page
• Go over the topics in the W3 Schools HTML tutorial that deal with the code you see on the First Business Page (our sample pages follow the HTML tutorials in order)
• Modify the page to make it personal adding the name of your business, a slogan and your name or your business' name instead of John Doe!
• Try markup for bold and italic text
• Change the attributes (width, size or color) of the horizontal line (<hr>) if you wish
• Notice that we begin to use "alternative fonts" since a browser can only show fonts that are installed on an individual's computer. This application of the rule has the browser use the Arial font if installed, if not helvetica and lastly sans serif. If none of the fonts were installed, the browser would use Times Roman.
• Notice that the copyright symbol © is expressed as a "special character."

Viewing HTML on Your Computer

• Open Notepad or any text editor.
• "Copy" the HTML code from the First Business Page (write the code line by line).
• Save the file as firstpage.htm in a subdirectory.
• Rename your home page index.htm.
• Open the file in your browser (in Internet Explorer, File, Open, Browse to the subdirectory where you saved the file, Open).

Viewing HTML on a Server

• If you have access to a server (perhaps through your Internet Service Provider), you can upload your First Business Page to the server using File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
• Try the free SmartFTP program.
• Open your Web page as you would any other Web page.

Accomplishment

You have created your first business Web page.