Open a Workspace

To complete this tutorial, you should create a second Internet explorer window (this allows you to keep the current window with the lesson instructions and have another window to test your work). Also, start the Notepad program (a simple text editor) in a third window.

Finally, create a folder to store and ORGANIZE your work.

  1. Create a folder in your store area called 01_Intro
  2. Start an new browser window, use the classic keyboard shortcut CTRL+N
  3. To start the Notepad program, click Start, Programs, Accessories, Notepad

Enter the following text in Notepad:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>A Brief History of The Internet</title>
</head>
<body>
In this lesson you will use the Internet to research the HISTORY of the Internet, and create a web-based report.
</body>
</html>

Save the document as a file called history.html in the 01_Intro folder you set up.

You MUST type in .html file extension when saving in Notepad, so a web browser will know to read your plain text file as an HTML document.