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News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:45 pm

I just started teaching myself how to really delve into writing HTML for website formatting. Problem is, I try saving the script to notepad on my Vista and it doesn't have the Save As htm, html option. So I save it in MS Works, not Word, but once I click to save it says that works will not maintain the format that the script is written in.

When I go to open the file with Firefox, it just comes up as the straight script and not the commands I entered.

Its still in its baby steps with only text and Im sure I wrote the script right, making sure I closed all tags and didn't overlap anything, so any reason why its not working?

I tried refreshing the page, saving the doc in other names and nothings working.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:40 pm

You can force notepad to save as html by just giving it the htm or htl extension in the filename.

Not sure about MS Works though.

Your basic web page format should be:

Code: Select all: <html> <head> <title> title of page goes here<title> </head> <body> Web page content goes here. </body> </html>

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:34 am

When you go File - Save As, drop the "Save as type" box down to All Files and then add the html extension.

Just worked fine for me.

But as someone who spent a few years coding html with notepad, it probably wouldn't hurt to look into one of the many WYSIWYG coding programs out there, you're brain will appreciate it.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:36 am

Well, I just finished my first tutorial on HTML. What you guys suggested worked great and I will definitely check out another way of saving rather than Notepad Burn.

I feel like such an idiot. I could have learned this years ago and possibly had a better paying job or something.

Now on to CSS training. Any tips on that are more than welcome.