#3 Choose Your Weapon

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View Your File in a Browser


Create your first web page

In choosing your text editor and writing the 'helloworld.html' file, you've just created your first web page. Now you will view it in all of its glory. This is just a quick task and it should only take five minutes at most. 

Open up your web browser and from the file menu at the top choose File > Open and open the 'helloworld.html' file that you've just created. Congratulations for the second time. That's a web page that you created.

Task Discussion


  • Kronosaurus said:

    Here is my html. It worked. I found the file menu in Firefox but I cannot find it in Google Chrome so I could not open it as instructed. I can open it in Chrome by going to the directory and opening my html file - Chrome is my default browser.

    on Jan. 26, 2012, 10:12 p.m.

    Kronosaurus said:

    Ooooohh, I figured it out. That was easy.

    on Jan. 26, 2012, 10:13 p.m. in reply to Kronosaurus

    Louisiannie said:

    Don't you love it when you answer your own question? Glad you figured it out! You'd make a good mentor for somebody who's new and wants to test their code in different ways. smiley

    Your comment reminded me to try looking at my file in different browsers, too. It doesn't matter so much for this first challenge, but I have a feeling future assignments may address cross-browser compatibility.

    ...stupid IE...

    on Feb. 5, 2012, 1:13 p.m. in reply to Kronosaurus

  • Gary Watts said:

    Here is my render of the page in Chrome along with my coding in Bluefish!

    on Jan. 21, 2012, 7:28 a.m.

  • Jay said:

    I've just uploaded my hand written html page. You will find it here

    on Jan. 16, 2012, 3:39 a.m.

  • Julio Garcia said:

    My fist html. From hand written to machine Here it is.

    on Jan. 13, 2012, 4:38 a.m.

  • Vita said:

    Ok... Here is my handwritten code taken to text editor and then finally in a browser... Check it out.... wink

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18761433/Webmaking101/helloworld.html

    on Dec. 6, 2011, 6:22 a.m.

    Sitereader said:

    Great post. And done on dropbox. Here is my attempt.

    on Dec. 27, 2011, 7:17 a.m. in reply to Vita

  • Anonym said:

    I am so happy....:)

    on Nov. 28, 2011, 10:07 a.m.

  • Yuri said:

    http://htmlpad.org/Yuripad/

    i uploaded my code here check it out its very simple right now i did it in like 5 minutes I was trying to add video but i could not find a host that will give me a link straight to the video....

    any help?

    on Nov. 20, 2011, 10:17 p.m.

    kaizer1v said:

    Checkout a youtube video, go to share, and click on the embed option. That will give you an iframe code. Simply paste that on your page.

    on Nov. 23, 2011, 5:09 a.m. in reply to Yuri

    Vita said:

    Thiago is lovely.... laugh

    on Dec. 6, 2011, 7:03 a.m. in reply to Yuri

    Sitereader said:

    I tried and failed to embed it in the comments but succeeded in embedding the video on the posterous website. 

    Thank you for the task. Your photos are GREAT. The large one scared me a bit though.

    on Dec. 27, 2011, 7:48 a.m. in reply to Yuri

  • Mudlark said:

    Well, Even without a valid 'shebang' line, it seemed to work!

    This is the link.

    I pat myself on the back!

    on Nov. 17, 2011, 2:27 p.m.

  • Makintronic said:

    I purchased Coda for 99 dollars and it's the best investment I ever made.

    on Nov. 12, 2011, 7 p.m.