If you are viewing this with an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer and see a blue-ish green web page with text now, then choose VIEW / SOURCE to see the html file that made the page. It will probably open into a Notepad file if you are using Windows.

On that Notepad file, Type a few extra words in of your own,

maybe here,

so you can see the effect of your changes.

To make use of this as your Blank Form, do a SAVE AS to one of your own folders or My Documents on your computer's C-drive. I suggest you modify the file name a little so you remember it or can differentiate it from this original.
Any name is ok so long as the file extension (after the period) still ends with the letters html

You may close the Notepad file now.

Now let's work with it. Use your Internet Browser, work off (off the phone) line,
use File/Open/Browse/ to find that html file you just saved in your folder on your C-drive, and open it. And it is easy to get back to if you save it as one of your Favorites.

You'll know it came from your C-drive and not the Internet because the address line should start with a C , instead of the 'http'. And you should see your typed changes.

After you open it and see it as a web page, then use VIEW / SOURCE to see this again in Notepad. See all the code in the brackets that tells where the text and pictures go. You can do this for any web page on the Internet. Just repect their copywrites if you intend to copy a little too closely. And many complicated pages have more code than text and it can get confusing.

Now that you are looking at your version on your C-drive and have that Notepad visible, make some more changes,

Type something here on the Notepad file,

To see the effect.

After you are done typing, SAVE the file. (you don't need save-as because you already have it in your computer and are just saving your changes.)

Now minimize or close that Notepad file, and hit REFRESH of Internet Explorer web browser. Your saved changes should appear.

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I threw in the above line just to help you find your place. Reading a web page using Notepad can be boring. All the lines and words look alike if you are tired when doing this.

Now comes the tricky part if you are using simple Notepad to find the file, rather than starting with the Internet Browser and then View / Source to find it on your computer.
If you try to find or browse for an html file in Notepad, it shows a blank box where you know there are many files. Go to the very bottom of the box, where it probably says TEXT files, and choose / click ALL FILES, and then the html and picture file names should pop in. Choose the html file name that matches the address name that you were viewing in Internet Explorer. Open it, and it should look just like the Notepad screen you saw by using VIEW / SOURCE of Internet Explorer.

Be very careful keeping track of files if you have one Notepad open AND at the same time are viewing web page SOURCES using a second Notepad. Two Notepad programs are running at the same time, and if you change one file, be sure it's the one you intended. The pages can both look so alike that you may get confused and save the wrong one or change the name on the 'wrong' file and lose your changes, the original, or all that work.

Running two or more Notepads at the same time comes in handy for copy and paste from one to the other to get information moved.

You can select and copy text from a web page, but the only way to get the text AND the html code to make it display like a web page is by using the Notepade file.

Note that SOME html instructions to DO SOMETHING are often followed later by an instruction to UNDO that, and it usually involves the slash /
Such as that BOLD B thing a few lines above, and this centering instruction.

The P inside the 'Less Than' and 'Greater Than' bracket symbols ends a paragraph and creates one blank line to separate paragraphs or pictures. And many instructions can be written with or without capitalization, p or P, with no change in their effect.

The BR just 'breaks' the text, it acts like the Enter key,
it starts a new line or picture immediately below the last line.

Regardless of how you type and enter text on Notepad, the web page only responds to the BR and P to end a line of text. I just leave lots of spaces on the Notepad page so it's easy to read. The web page doesn't notice this.
Unless you use PRE to pre-format the location of text. This is real handy when I grab someone's e-mail and throw it on my page. More on this is in the books, and maybe I'll cover this in the future .

There are many ways to control where text and pictures are placed, and what colors you see on the page. But save that for some other day to learn.

The system is very forgiving about what you type, and you can leave extra spaces; until you get to what is inside the web instruction brackets. Dpn't make typos there. You'll see instruction errors p> and forgotten brackets BR> show up on br> on the P> web page. Especially watch for some special effect you started, and if it doesn't end where you intend, then you forgot to UNdo it in some instruction. If you don't use much special stuff, nothing can go wrong. It's a boring plain page, but that's good enough for now.

There should be a blank space or box here for a picture we haven't described yet:

Information about adding pictures to your page is on apicture1.html, How to add pictures, page 1.

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You may add your e-mail address to any page.
Put your e-mail address in place of mine on the Notepad html page, and people will find it easy to respond to you.
My e-mail address,click here

If you worry about spam and your e-mail getting out to too many of the 'wrong people', then try this trick:
Ask for mail by copying and pasting the mail address with some 'error' such as my leaving out a letter.
My 'erroneous address' might be typed bokrlwy@coredcs.com by leaving out the first 'b'.
Then tell people to copy and paste that into a mail address line, and add another letter b to the front to complete the address. Inconvenient for your reader.

(The idea is to make a simple change or deletion that people can do, but the computer won't. Any person responding should copy and paste the mail address into their own mail form, and then type in the one correct letter. The automatic e-mail spam programs won't know to do that.)

Here are links to more instructions:

A stripped simple version is on file aBlankForm3c.html, Fill in the space Short form.

Information about putting pictures on your page is on apicture1.html, How to add pictures, page 1.

Information on transferring pages from your computer to your Internet provider is on atransfer1.html, How to transfer, page 1.

Information on linking or connecting your pages is on blinks1.html, How to add Links, page 1.

Information about how to get you noticed by search engines is on bmetaname1.html, Adding names to aid Search Engines

Wrote Dec 25, 28, 30, 2003. No copywrite.