Ch5

Chapters 5: HTML and making web pages

HTML Is a code used by web browsers to detect. You can harness the power of it, you can publish your own web pages using web page editor, or the notebook program on windows ( I don't knowany other OS systems has a notebook-like program). You got to put tags, acode to dectect your web browser to load specifc taks, to your web page tooperate.

How to type a tag
You see tags has to have the "<" and ">" symbols. To start instruction you need to put "<", the code, and ">". To end the intruction of the tag use "<", the slash ( / ), the code, and ">" .

When typing the instruction betwwen the "<" and the ">", you can ethier type in all caps, non-caps, or the combonation of caps and non-caps. Caps are capital letters, or a secondary function of the key of the keyboard.

Basic Tags
A shown above you need tags to activate thepage. These basic tags are considered a to have in a web page.

<HTML>
   This is were your ".html" file start. To end the file, you just have to type </html>.
Example:
<Html>....</html>

<Head>
   This tag is mainly used for information that your web browser can use. Anything between the tags ar not displayed in the web browser. There are a few tags that go between these tags.
Example:
<Html>
<head>...</head>
</Html>

Meta Tags
Meta tags are tags that give information for the internet services, and/or web browsers to use. The are optional. Meta tags is located between the <head> tags.
For more info on meta tags click here.

<Title>
   This tag puts text on the top of the browser's window. The <title> tag is located between the <head> tag.
Example:
<html>
<head>
<Title>When you put it here, it would be at the top of his browserlater </title>
</head>
</html>

<Body>
   This tag is where you see everything on your web page. You can now put text here, and it can be shown. Unlike the <head> tag, most of the tags go between these tags.
Example:
<html>
<head>...</head>
<Body>You can put some text here</body>
</html>

Formatting Text
   Unless you like to have plain old text, you probarly want to stylise your own text. Click here to modify text.

Comment Tag
A special kind of tag is a Comment Tag. It's a tag that with text in it but will not be shown through a web browser. This tag is good for locating a group of tags from a bunch of html code, and that what it does basically. But for advanced users, it is a base for making java, javascripts, and other different stuff.
Example of a comment tag:

Example of web page
When you put all tags together, you end up with a web page.
[If you don't see anything below, turn on Images. If that doesn't work, contact me]

You write the code:
Example 1

and then click here to see what you get!!

HTML today
Html 4.0 is the latest version if you want to lookit up at book stores. The latest browsers will read Html 4.0.
Sometimes browsers have their own html tags, so onlytheir browsers can read these tags.

Bookmarks
For more info on Html go to:

A Beginners Guide to HTML by Ncsa Access
A good guide to start off on HTML. Goes through the tags in detail.
Http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu./general/Internet/www/HTMLprimer.html

World Wide Web Consortium
The Offical place of Html. This is where you can get to see how they make these things up.
Http://www.w3c.org/

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