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Saving Web Pages

To save your code as a web page, click the File menu at the top of Notepad (or whatever Text Editor you are using.) From the File menu, select Save As. The Save As dialogue box appears (We created a new folder to store all our web pages in, and called the folder HTML)..

The Windows 7 Save As dialogue box.

Note the default extension at the bottom, under 'Save as type' It says, Text Documents (*.txt). If you leave it on that then you won't have web page, you'll have a text file. Click on the drop down list and change it to 'All files'. (You don't need to do this if you're using TextEdit on a Mac. Just type firstwebpage.html in the Save As box.)

The All Files option on the Save As dialogue box in Windows 7.

In the File Name box, type firstwebpage.html

The All Files option on the Save As dialogue box in Windows 7.

Note that we've used all lowercase letters. This is not strictly necessary, but is recommended. Also, try not to add spaces to web page names as this can cause problems. You can use underscores or hyphens, though. So these two are OK:

first_web_page.html

first-web-page.html

But these two should be avoided:

first web page.html

FirstWebPage.html

Click on Save and you'll have a HTML page that can be displayed in a browser.

In the next lesson, you'll see how to view your web pages.

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