My name is Steve and I'm a writer, unpublished like most of us. I'm other things too, of course. I relatively rarely lie but I have so I'm a liar. Since had I murdered anyone say, fifty years ago, I'd still be a murderer, I guess since I've stolen I'm a thief and since I've sold drugs I'm a dealer. Verbs can be turned into nouns so easily.  But because I feel each of us is more than either of us has done, I feel even more strongly that to define either of us, or anyone, by a single act or even single set of acts is a bad idea.

As yet I'm not a webmaster.This website I'm trying to set up, and it's going badly this first week, will at least at first (though not yet) exist as a place where the better of my two novels can be found--other stuff too, eventually, but, for now, just the one novel. It's called A Human Being.These few words on this page are not a foreword to A Human Being, which has its own. They are merely a part of my effort to learn a little bit about using html. My friend Tim, a very patient man, is helping me. If only I could make this page appear as source, as I could yesterday, I could ask him questions in untagged (hm, good Steve) sections that wouldn't appear when he posted them, would just be between me and him. But I can't do what I could yesterday.When I click View Source on my Index.html file I am again getting a dialog box with which I've become familiar in the past week"Windows cannot find notepad.  You may have typed the name incorrectly in the Run dialog or another open program cannot find a system file.  To search for a file, click the Start button and then click Search.

Trouble is, I don't know what is meant by Run dialog. Nor do I understand .& nbsp; Nor can I find my way into Notepad, though I do see that Notepad is easier than Word. Nor do I really know how I got here this time. I mean, I do. I was at my URL and right-clicked on the text and got View As and left-clicked on View Source and up it came, but I was unaware of doing anything I hadn't done a half dozen times in the past 36 hours that had gotten me to 'Window can't find notepad' dialog box.

Nor do I know why this and the preceding paragraph is appearing in my text instead of being hidden in the source code. My problems no doubt have to do with my illogicality, my seeming inability to do things in order and exactly as you tell me. I think I see how you are doing something, so cut corners by deleting yr words and entering mine, but then when the result I get is unexpected, I'm lost, in this case find this long note to you not hidden, as I thought it would be, and am unable to hide it on my own without just deleting it.

What does Run dialog mean?

So anyway, I'm playing, but could use a video of every move I make to learn what I'm doing differently to have what I do work then not work then work again. And am again near quitting for a few years!

Hi Tim here, and I'm helping Steve, showing him a little about html. He needs some hand holding, though I know he's going to get the basics sooner than he thinks.
Notice how I can force a new line by using the break tag. Cool, yes?
Every time I use it the browser forces a
new line no matter where the tag appears in the HTML code.

By the way here is the code to link an email, in this case yours

This is a link to a file named test.html.

test