Tip:
The best way to learn how to program is to look at other people's programming. You can do this by going to View+Source from your web browser. It will pop up a window of the programming on their page.

 

Related Links:
ZDNet's DevHead
CNet's Builder.com
Lycos' Webmonkey

 

Welcome To the Windows 98 section of the Support Site.

HTML

  • A Guide to Beginning your own homepage.

Here is an example of the first few lines you would make if you were making a homepage:

<HTML>

<TITLE> Your Homepage </TITLE>

The next thing you need to know are the different grades of text size. H1 is the largest, with H6 being only a small amount larger than regular text. The different sizes of text are: H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, and H6.

 

  • This is H1 text!

  • This is H2 text!

  • This is H3 text!

  • This is H4 text!

  • This is H5 text!
  • This is H6 text!

Usually, for the first text of your page you would use H1 text

Probably, the next thing you'll want to know is how to put images on your page. Images must be either .gif or .jpg files. Here is how you would put an image into your page:

<IMG SRC="image.gif"> This would get the following result:

You can center images by using the following command:

<CENTER> <IMG SRC="image.gif"></CENTER> This would get the following result:

How to make a counter on your page:


Next, you'll want links on your page! For example, here is how you would make a link to the Maqs.Net Support Page: <A HREF="http://support.maqs.net"> The Maqs.Net Tech Support Page! </A>

It would come out like this:

The Maqs.Net Tech Support Page!

You can also make images a link instead of text! Here's How you would do it:

<A HREF="http://support.maqs.net"> <IMG SRC="faqbutt.gif"> </A>

How to make a line:

To make a line you just use this command line:

<HR>

It would come out like this:

How to make an E-Mail link on your page:

This is the command line you would use:

<A HREF="mailto:username@maqs.net"> Mail Me! </A>

Where it says username you should substitute your username in that part.