To use the information in these webpages, you must have a text program. For Windows, wordpad is the most commonly used, for Mac's, simpletext.
Very important: You must save your webpage document as html format.
This can be done by typing the document name, and adding the .html ending. (i.e. index.html)Calling the html document index will cause it to be the default document. The default document opens two different ways:
http://somedomain.com/somefolder/anotherfolder/
and
http://somedomain.com/somefolder/anotherfolder/index.html
as you can see, calling the document index will shorten the the URL.

I'm a ninth grader enrolled in Charter Community School, who loves to design webpages. I've done just about everything wrong in my quest for webpage knowledge, but I've worked out most of my problems. Overcoming a problem is perhaps the best way to learn, as it really makes you think about what you're doing. It's not just cut and paste, or using a fancy web editor, you have to know the commands, and what they mean. It takes a little learning, but the few basic commands are easy to find and recognize. With a basic knowledge, you can pick out new commands on other webpages, and use them yourself.

I know that when I was making my first webpage, I really wished I had something to help me figure out what everything means, and what command does what. That's why I decided to make this webpage, because I know what it's like. Making a webpage in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is really quite easy once you understand the basic form of the webpage and a few special commands. A good webpage doesn't need anything fancy to be good.