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Building a Web Page for the Totally Lost

Step 3 - Saving Your Page

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

Saving a file as HTML is not as easy as it might sound. Follow these steps closely to save your first Web page.

Save the file to your desktop, as an html file, not text:
Windows:

  1. Click File
  2. Click Save As...
  3. Change the directory to your desktop
  4. Change the Save as type to "All Files"
  5. Type in the file name: firstweb.html
  6. Click Save
Macintosh:
  1. Click File
  2. Click Save
  3. Type in the file name: firstweb.html
  4. Change the directory to your desktop
  5. Click Save

On the final page, you'll view the Web page you just created.

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