05-06-2012, 05:48 PM
Introduction to HTML
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Introduction to HTML
Contents
Getting Started..
What is HTML?
How to create and View an HTML document?
Basic HTML Document Format
The HTML Basic tags
What the following term mean:
Web server: a system on the internet containg one or more web site
Web site: a collection of one or more web pages
Web pages: single disk file with a single file name
Home pages: first page in website
Think about the followings before working your Web pages.
Think about the sort of information(content) you want to put on the Web.
Set the goals for the Web site.
Organize your content into main topics.
Come up with a general structure for pages and topics.
What is HTML?
Telling the browser what to do, and what props to use.
A serises of tags that are integrated into a text document.
Tags are ;
surrounded with angle brackets like this
<B> or <I>.
Most tags come in pairs
exceptions: <P>, <br>, <li> tags …
The first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it off.
The second tag(off switch) starts with a forward slash.
For example ,<B> text </B>
can embedded, for instance, to do this:
<HEAD><TITLE> Your text </HEAD></TITLE> it won't work.
The correct order is <HEAD><TITLE> Your text </TITLE></HEAD>
not case sensitivity.
Many tags have attributes.
For example, <P ALIGN=CENTER> centers the paragraph following it.
Some browsers don't support the some tags and some attributes.
Basic HTML Document Format
How to Create and View an HTML document?
1.Use an text editor such as Editpad to write the document.
2.Save the file as filename.html on a PC. This is called the Document Source.
3.Open Netscape (or any browser) Off-Line
4.Switch to Netscape
5.Click on File, Open File and select the filename.html document that you just created.
6.Your HTML page should now appear just like any other Web page in Netscape.
7.You may now switch back and forth between the Source and the HTML Document
switch to Notepad with the Document Source
make changes
save the document again
switch back to Netscape
click on RELOAD and view the new HTML Document
switch to Notepad with the Document Source......