Drill 1

•Open your word processing or simpletext program and begin a new document.

•Type in the following code exactly as you see it:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

•After <TITLE> type a title for your home page. Be descriptive. Here is what I will type: George's Most Excellent Home Page

•After <BODY> type your title again or whatever you want. 

*Remember* the title you typed above will show on the title bar of the browser that you use if it will support that. It will not show in the body of the document. To have the title of your page show in the body of the document it has to be between the two body tags.

 •So now my document looks like this :

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
 George's Most Excellent Home Page      --------->  This will show in the 
</TITLE>                                                             browser's title bar.
</HEAD>
<BODY>
 George's Most Excellent Home Page   --------> This will show in the 
</BODY>                                                          body of the page.
</HTML>

•Now save the document as an HTML document. Go to the menubar under FILE and go to SAVE AS. When the save window appears, save the document with .html immediately after the title.

•Launch your browser. Open the saved document with the browser. If your browser supports putting the title in the title bar it should appear there. In the body of the document your other title should appear.

•If the title did not appear then check the following:

1. That your basic outline is typed correctly.
2. That your document has been saved with the .html immediately after the name.
3. That you have typed between the two body tags.
4. If you have done all that, try saving the document again. Then click on the LOAD ORIGINAL button at the top of your browser.

•When you see the document opened under your browser it will look very unimpressive. The following explanations and drills will spice things up.

Let's go spice things up.