How to Develop Web Pages

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Learn web technologies and languages.

   The basic ones you'll need to know to code your own websites are HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
   
   After that you can go on with learning others like XML, ASP, PHP...
   
   You can start learning for free at http://w3schools.com/ this sites contain comprehensive lessons for the beginner and experts alike, plenty of examples and an editor so you can try out what you've learned and see results on spot.
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   Step 2: You'll need an editor.

   Web page code files are basically text files so you can create a web page using only notepad.
   
   But it might get hard to read through creating big and complex pages, in which case you might need an editor with more advanced features such as color-coding, tag completion.
   
   Some of this include notepad++, Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express, BBEdit (for Mac) which are free and some of them need to be bought like Adobe Dreamweaver or MS Visual Web Developer (the non-free versions). ,,,,, You can even see the page source by right-clicking on an empty area in your browser and selecting view source (the method can vary with different browsers)
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   Step 3: Creating a web page could be as simple as creating a text file ex: page.txt and renaming the extension to .html i.e page.html

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   Step 4: open it using notepad or your preferred editor

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   Step 5: write the (X)HTML code of the page

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   Step 6: save it and the load it in your browser.

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   Step 7: To make sure your website is consistent

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   Step 8: download all the major browsers like Internet Explorer

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   Step 9: Firefox

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    Step 10: Safari

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    Step 11: Chrome

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    Step 12: Opera (they're all free) and test your pages in each of the browser cause different people use different browsers and you'd want your pages to look the same everywhere.

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    Step 13: You should also make sure your page is valid and it conforms to the standards and recommendations

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    Step 14: you can validate your page using the validator at http:\\validator.w3.org\ which will tell you if your site is okay or contains errors.

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    Step 15: Once you've mastered creating pages

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    Step 16: plan and create your website; which is just a group of related pages.

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    Step 17: Visit your favorite sites and

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    Step 18: study them and get some ideas.

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