Mr. Matt .NET

How to build a simple website:

There are several different ways to build a website, by using pure HTML in a text editor, or by using an authoring software to generate the code you need. I personally feel that the best editor, next to pure HTML with Notepad is Adobe Dreamweaver.

I find that dreamweaver writes less code that is useless compared to other editing software suites.

So what is html? That's always a good start, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a set of codes that are decoded by browsers that put together web pages. The most simple web page is shown below.

<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>

<body>
Hello World
</body>
</html>

This will generate a simple page that simply has the words Hello World on a white Background.

To change the Background color we can edit the Body tag to read:

To have the text show up in white, we can add another set of instructions to the body:

Now we have a Black page with white writting. Of course there are a lot more ways to do this, and you will most likely just have to experiment with the different methods to find one you are comfortable.

A good site for learning the core basics of Web Design is W3Schools which has a great tutorial to follow. I highly reccommend it!