"LESSON 2"
This page is designed for those who know absolutely NOTHING about creating
a web page. When I first decided I wanted to do my own home page that is
exactly what I knew...nothing. After much research I found plenty of help
on the subject but a lot of it assumed one had some working knowledge,
which I didn't. This is why I decided on doing this. It is intended to
do nothing more than a very basic web page. Once learned you can go on
with other "frills". You can use an editor if you like to get started,
but I don't recommend them because they become a "crutch". My own personal
preference is to actually LEARN how to do it yourself!
Web pages are created by a computer language called HTML which means
Hyper Text Markup Language. They are not case sensitive which means they
can be upper or lower case. The basic, and I do mean basic, tags that
are used to create the page itself come in pairs. A beginning tag, and
an ending tag. The following pairs are the bare essentials of creating
a page:
<HTML> </HTML>
<TITLE> </TITLE>
<BODY> </BODY>
You will note that they all have certain things in common.
1. Left angle brackets
2. Right angle brackets
3. A definition of what is in these brackets
4. The second one in each pair contains a forward slash. This
signifies the end of each element.
OK...big deal! Now what? Let's create a very basic start using these tags.
Open your notebook and we can get started.
Explanations are in parenthesis and not intended for use in your creation.
<HTML> (This is showing the beginning of a page)
<TITLE>"MY FIRST WEB PAGE"</TITLE> (note that the tags are used in
pairs. You can put whatever you
you like in the area where I have
"MY FIRST WEB PAGE" the quotation
marks are not necessary here, just
an option if you so chose.
<BODY> (This is where I will begin to insert my text)
</BODY> (This will end the text)
</HTML> (This ends the page itself)
Simple wasn't it!
The next thing you want to know is how to break up your text. After all,
you don't want your paragraphs running into one another. This tag does not
have to be used in pairs and it is simple! Just insert at the end of a
paragraph <p>
Another tag that works in a similar way is the break tag. You use it to
break a line. If you want more than a single line space repeat it's use.
The tag is <br>
OK..now this was all pretty plain and simple so lets add some pizzazz with
color and style in lesson 2.
