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Create your first web page

Min. Age: 6+ Mother and son; age icon Duration: 60 min. Mother and son; age icon

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Create an index.html page

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Open a text editor like notepad, notepad++ or gedit.

Gedit text editor
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Save the document as index.html in your workspace folder.

Save as index.html
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How do we write a website?

Websites use a language called HTML. With HTML you can format the text and add images to your webpage.

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Start by typing this on your index.html file:

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Now open the index.html file using a web browser, like Mozilla, Google Chrome or Edge.

Basic webpage with title and h1
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Change the text between the <h1>...</h1> tags.

Save the index.html file. and click on the refresh button on your browser.

Browser refresh button
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Instead of using <h1>...</h1> tags, try using <h2>...</h2>, <h3>...</h3> ...

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Insert a text paragraph

Add a <p> below your <h1>, save the file and refresh your browser.

Web page with title and text paragraph
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Insert an image

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Take a picture or make a drawing, you can use Kid Pix (codidactic.com/kidpix).

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Save your picture and move it to where your index.html is.

PNG image and HTML index file in a folder
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Add an image below your paragraph using the <img... tag:

Web page with an image
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Try changing the width value to 100, then to 500.

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Upload your site to the internet

Go to codidactic.com/mypage

Web Page Creator Webapp
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Complete the form:

- Give your page a unique name, could be your name or a nickname.

Set web page title.
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- Write your HTML.

Write web page HTML.
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- Write your HTML.

Write web page HTML.
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- Upload the images you want to use, you can copy their filenames and use them in your HTML

Upload images and use them in the HTML.

Congratulations your web page is online, now everybody can access it!

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Share your web page url with your family and friends

Share your web page button.

Your web page can be found on the url: https://yourname.codidactic.com

Example: https://andrew.codidactic.com

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Add a link of your friends' web pages on your web page

You can add a link to another website using the <a... </a> tag:

Web page with links to friends' pages
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Make a website with your friends