Usually, tutorial websites instruct you on making "Hello World!" page.
In this certain example. I'm going to teach you how to make a page that says "Good day world, today you shall be smitten by my greatness" - So, let's get down to creating the file.
You could create this file in Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage by a click of a button but if your laptop blew up from overclocking, you're stuck at a kiosk, with no means but Notepad to patch a website emergency for NASA - then hand coding will prove useful.