Copying text stores it in short-term memory. The text that you've copied is now available for you to paste somewhere else. For example, you could copy the text of this page and paste it into a word-processing program. As you can imagine this is a pretty convenient feature. Copying and pasting makes authoring HTML much easier.
Many text editors offer additional HTML authoring features which are very convenient.
I recommend that you start with a template . Then copy the text of your document from the word-processing program in which you created it. Paste this raw text into the body of the template. Then continue to mark up the text with HTML as outlined in the tutorial . This page authored and maintained by Bart Everson .