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We've armed you with enough HTML knowledge to build your own website. You can go to the gURL guide to building a website for all the specifics about how to get your site up and running.
To use your HTML as a webpage, there are a few things that need to be added to it for a browser to recognize it as a full page (as opposed to something like using the HTML on the gURL boards where you're adding HTML to an existing webpage).
Begin by typing the HTML in your text document.
At the very beginning of the page before any other HTML, put the <html> tag. Put it's closing tag, </html>, at the very end of the page after all the HTML. This tells a browser that all this HTML is one complete web page.
Next, you need to add header tags. Within these tags, you'll put invisible information that isn't displayed on the page itself. Put the header tags <head></head> after the <html> tag but before any of your page HTML.
Finally, add the body tags. These tell the browser where the visible part of the page begins and ends. The opening body tag <body> is placed after the </head> tag, and the body closing tag </body> is placed after the HTML but before the </html>. PHEW! So far, your page looks something like this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<font size="4">welcome to my <b>totally radical</b> web world, dudes.</font>
</body>
</html>
Cool! Now you have a basic but complete web page. Next, you need to save your page. Choose File > Save As from the menu. Save the page as a "plain text" or .html file.
