In a Macintosh environment, click Macintosh HD, click Applications and click SimpleText. Whether you use uppercase or lowercase letters within your tags also does not make a difference. Now you need to save this file somewhere so that you can find it in a moment. Save it to the desktop, or, better yet, to a directory that you set up to hold all of the pages you are going to create. Save it to the filename first.html .
All Web browsers have a way to open a file stored on the local machine.
In Internet Explorer and Netscape, select Open File from the File menu at the top of the window. Open the file first.html . By looking at the HTML text that makes up your first page, you can see exactly how the page got its title and body. Now that you have created and viewed your first Web page, you are well on your way to becoming a Web page pro. The key to knowing everything about how a Web page works is to learn more and more of the HTML tags that let you customize your pages.