This is a brief explanation of how to create a simple webpage using a free HTML editor/authoring tool called KompoZer. You can download KompoZer here. It is easy to install.

 

For Windows user just go to the download page and download the latest stable version. Usually called something like (Win32 binary kompozer-0.7.10-win32.zip (7.6 MB) - compiled with VC++ 7.0 on Cygwin ) Save the file to your desktop or folder of your choice. Unzip it by right clicking and choosing ‘Extract All’ and following the wizard. This will create a folder with all the files for the program. There is no installer that creates a menu item and what not. The easiest thing to go into the folder that was just created (something like: kompozer-0.7.10-win32) and then go into the folder inside this one called KompoZer 0.7.10. You will see a list of files and folders. Right click on the one called, kompozer.exe and drag it to your desktop, then choose create shortcut here. Do not move the file, it will not work if you do, just create a shortcut. You can move the folder with all the KompoZer files in it to a place of your liking

 

Now double click on the shortcut and KompoZer will start up. Start by saving the blank default page that opened by choosing FILE > Save As. KompoZer will prompt you to give the page a name. Call it something like, My First Webpage and click OK. Now it will allow to save the file somewhere. ‘Create a new Folder’ and call it something like, ‘MyWebsite’. Change the name of the file you are saving to ‘index.html’ and save it into the folder you just created.

 

In the step above you just setup your first homepage. It is named ‘index.html’ as this is the name needed to make it the default page or the first page that opens when someone visits your website. Most web servers (computers where you house your website files) use this name (index.html -along with some other variations) as the default for the home page. You are now ready to add some content to your homepage. Place your cursor in the blank page and type in a heading and some text. Select your heading text and then from the dropdown in top menu at the left with Body Text in the menu choose H1 (for Heading Size 1). This will increase your heading text size. Click the Save button at the top.