How do you create create a HTML document?

You use a html editor.
Personally I use html-kit from www.chami.com, but if you want a wysiwyg interface (if you can't be bothered or just don't have time to learn html) then you can use Dreamweaver, Frontpage etc.
I'd reccomend you learn html from www.w3schools.com.

create a new text document.
open it, and at the top put:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

save and close it.
rename it to something.html
Now its a html document. So fill it with html :)

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