Couple things for ya when making an html document with notepad(and wordpad).
**instructions are written with windows in mind - as I will venture to guess that is what you are using**
1: open any folder on your computer and click tools -> folder options.
2: on the top tab click the view option. This will bring up a buncha checkboxes.
3:uncheck the box that says "Hide extentions for known file types"
**note be careful now, as just by changint the text after the period (ie .html) you can change how a file is treated.**
4: Open wordpad/notpad
5: Make sure that you never save any information as rich text format (rtf)
this will greatly screw up your Html document.
6: Write your html document
7: Save your file as an .html edtention (index.html being the traditional
base page)
Now you should be able to go to your browser and file->open your page and voila.. done!
edit: BTW if you want a free html editor this one is sexy: EVRSOFT FIRSTPAGEThere are better ones, but that tool is best for novice level.
Here are my tips on good html:
Don't use table based layouts
Practice W3C standards (www.w3c.org)
Learn CSS and love it
Use firefox to test your html/css layouts - it actually obeys standards!
Don;t use Java script(purley my prefrence)
Good luck!
Bipper
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