What is web design or a web designer and search engine optimization SEO better yet how do you design a web site that is search engine friendly? Here we go through the basics to start you off on developing your own web site for educational purposes or for your own business starting with html - hyper text markup language.
If you are running Windows, start Notepad. If you are on a Mac, start SimpleText.
Here were going to use the basic software requirements to write a simple web page and make it Search Engine Happy or Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
On notepad/simple text write type this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
Now go to "File" and then to "Save File.." a window will pop up which is the default directory where you computer will save your file. For the sake of simplicity navigate to your Desktop directory respectively for mac users. Click on the "Save as type: " drop down list on the bottom of the window and choose "All file *.*" and save it as myfirstwebpage.html. Notice that by default the text program notepad/simple text will try to save it as "file.txt" with the suffix of .txt at the end. By choosing "All file *.*" on the drop down list we were able to save it as an html document. Html stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which is the computer language (code for short) that browsers like Internet Explorer and Safari use to read and display content, audio, video and images by web pages. Now on your Desktop, you should have a file that's named "myfirstwebpage.html" double click that file and your default web browser will launch the web site you created. On this web page you'll only see "This is my first homepage." and "This text is bold" in bold letters both in black letters with a white background. The statements used with "<" and ">" are not displayed because that is the html language that the browser uses and is not meant to be displayed. You are now programming so code you write is mostly for computers/browsers to understand how you want to display information and they know that the code you write is only meant for them to process. The computer/browser knows this by these characters "<" and ">" code that have theses characters are called tags. Now notice there's tags <b> and </b> between "This text is bold" This b tag stands for bold which in return, you guessed it!, makes any text bold when in between this tag. Notice on your web page at the very top left hand corner where is says "Title of page" text here is placed by using the title tag like this: <title>Title of page</title> All html documents must have, at minimum, two tags in order for browsers to display and process information: an html and a body tag <html> and <body> most tags will require a closing tag as in this case <html> and <body> both have closing tags </body> and </html> They follow the precedented order both the body tags are inside the html tags and both html tags are outside the body tags. All content including text, images, video and audio goes inside the body tags.
Well this wraps up our lesson on getting started in web development. Come back soon to get my next Tutorial on how to get your html web pages displayed on the internet with a domain name of your choice. In the meantime feel free to click on any of the links on this page that will give you more information and insight on development and business oportunities on the internet.
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