How to make html documents:

You will use a program called Notepad to create a html document. This program is located at Start (in the lower left of your screen) ("then click" is illustrated by > ) > Programs > Accessories > Notepad. Notepad will open. First click, File on the top left, > Save as... A new window will open with Save As on the top. In the box to the right of File Name: clear what ever is there and type in

homepage.html

Next, click the drop down box to the right of Save as type: and select All Files. Next, at the top center of the window there is Save in: . Click the drop down box to the right of that and select Desktop. Finally click the Save button in the lower right hand corner of the window. Now, you will be back at the white text enter area of Notepad.
 

Each tag contained within < > tells the browser (a.k.a. Internet Explorer) to perform the action within the tag. For example, <h1>Hello</h1>, produces

Hello

in the browser. The <h1> tag is defined as the "first level heading 1 tag" which produces a large font, like a newspaper heading, in the browser window. The Hello in between the <h1> tag and </h1> is the text that will become the first level heading.

Now, you can also use the <a href></a> tags to automatically open up an email on the user's computer (the person who clicks the link) and put your email address in the send line. This is done by the email instance of <a href></a>.

So,

<a href="mailto:me@email.cornell.edu">Email Me</a>

will open up for the user (the person who clicks "Email Me") their email program and put me@email.cornell.edu in the subject line automatically. Replace me@email.cornell.edu with your email address and personalize the "Email Me" text as you please. Help at learn to html.