HTML PAGE CONSTRUCTION.

Okay, I have tried to figure out how to do this on three different occasions and I don't have a clue as to how to do it on my computer. I have tried to create the page through Safari and I tried through the Netscape webpage as well. The instructions seem quite easy reading them through but I can't find where the hell to retrieve the HTML page codes... I will keep trying on this and I am going to ask Professor tomorrow but this is so confusing because I don't know where to look for or find the short hands that it says we need to find.