3. Default HTML Template
I have created a basic HTML document that I use as a starting point for all my websites. If you do not understand what a paticular line of code means, hold your mouse over that line for an explaination.
Copy the template and paste it into your HTML editor of choice. (Mine is Macromedia Homesite).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>CompanyName - PageName</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <meta name="description" content="Description" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Keywords" /> <meta name="author" content="Enlighten Designs" /> <style type="text/css" media="all">@import "css/master.css";</style> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Save this as index.html in your websites root (htdocs) directory.
The structure of your website directories should be like so:
