AOLpress: Creating a simple page

	Learning the Basics
Creating a simple page

Now that you know how to open pages, it's time to start editing them. We'll just cover the basics here. The Creating Your Pages section shows more fancy stuff you'll probably want to add to your pages.

Type your name in the space to the right. (You might want to make this window wider so you'll have plenty of room to read these steps and edit the page.)
Press Enter to start a new paragraph. Then, type the names of 2 or 3 of your hobbies and interests -- pressing Enter after each one.
Try centering some of your text. Put the cursor in your name, then choose FormatParagraphAlign Center from the pull-down menus above.
You can make your name bigger by highlighting your name with the mouse and choosing FormatHeadingHdg 2.
Now, highlight your list of hobbies with the mouse and choose FormatListBulleted List.

Try it here:

For example, you might end up with text that looks like this:

My name

Skiing
Volleyball
Web page design

Notice the icon to the left of the Location field below the toolbar changes from to when you edit this page. This icon shows that you've made changes that you haven't saved yet. Choose FileSave to save your changes and the icon will become a solid web again.

By the way, if you created that part of the page by writing the HTML code yourself, it would look like:

<H2 ALIGN=Center>My name</H2>
  <UL>
    <LI>
      Skiing
    <LI>
      Volleyball
    <LI>
      Web page design
  </UL>

This may not look so bad, but this is the simple stuff. Later, we'll do some things that would be really difficult if you were hand-coding the HTML. For an example, choose ToolsShow HTML to see the HTML behind this page. Luckily, we had AOLpress to help us create this page! You can choose FileClose to close the HTML window.