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Welcome to the introduction to HTML and web design. This short tutorial is aimed to give newbie's a little experience in writing HTML code, saving their files correctly, and viewing the completed works in a web browser. Regrettably this tutorial cannot teach you the basics of using a computer, so please be sure that you meet the following requirements:

Know what notepad is and how to use it
Are able to open up a file using Internet Explorer (or the browser of your choice)
Know how to copy and paste text from a webpage (important!).
If you are lacking the ability of the aforementioned items please contact a local geek and ask nicely for a quick lesson.
 

Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial you will be transcribing code into notepad and then viewing it with a web browser. The code is called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and notepad is a commonly used text editor on Window PCs. HTML may seem confusing at first, but we will help you understand how it works in this step-by-step tutorial of how to make your first web page.
 
Tips
You may have heard of FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and other WYSIWYG programs (What You See Is What You Get). Though these programs will let you create pages quickly, you will soon learn there are many advantages to knowing how to code HTML. Spicing up or polishing up HTML effects can only be done manually.

Ever wonder what a website's designer did to get that awesome look it has? You can view a websites source (HTML) and if you know HTML you'll understand how they did it. On any browser, select the view command, scroll down and select 'view source' to see the HTML code for the site you are currently viewing.