hi. i've learnt that i can use notepad to build my site, and then save it as a html document. then load it up onto my server. but i have windows xp, and i can't save my notepad document as a html document. it only saves it as a txt document. i went to notepad help, and this is what it says:

'Because Notepad supports only very basic formatting, you cannot accidentally save special formatting in documents that need to remain pure text. This is especially useful when creating HTML documents for a Web page because special characters or other formatting may not appear in your published Web page or may even cause errors.

You can save your Notepad files as Unicode, ANSI, UTF-8, or big-endian Unicode. These formats provide you greater flexibility when working with documents that use different character sets.'

what does this mean? and is there a way in which i can make a 'normal' webpage using the notepad i have?

I have windows xp and it lets me save with any extension I want:

.php , .txt , .html , .shtml

whatever.

When you save the document you just save it as whatever.html , it doesn't show up in the list that you've actually saved it like that, but it does save it.

you may need to use quotes when you are saving the document.

"filename.html"

like that.

i just type blah.html or blah.php and select "all files"and it works great. Why are the "" required? (just a question, no offense or anything!)

from what i read here, the person has not selected "all files" but ".txt" .. that's the only way it could be saving in .txt. Otherwise it would be .html.txt (if that was the problem)

Love,
Mirna

I think the quotes just have to do with the way the file name is interpreted. the quotes indicate that the file name should be exactly as you typed it, without adding any other extension.

Okay :) thanks!

yup.
it's kinda like a different way of doing the "all files" option thing.
cheers.