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Are
you confused about web page design and don't
know where to start? Feel free to learn HTML
and how to design your very own web site by
using our FREE Online HTML Tutorial.
HTML Tutorial Part 1:
The Basics
HTML Tags...
The Page you are viewing right now is an HTML
document. HTML documents look a lot like word-processing
documents...
You can have bold and italicized,
Larger and Smaller,
or it could look type-written.
Of course, the HTML code for this can look confusing...
You can have <b>bold</b> and
<i>italicized</i>, <font size=+2>Larger</font>
and <font size=-2>Smaller</font>,
or it could look <tt>type-written</tt>.
So what are all these "<" and ">"
things doing here? When you place a certain thing
within these you are making something known as
a tag. For example the <b> tag
is saying to start bold text, and the </b>
tag is saying to stop bold text. The tag with
the slash (/) is known as the closing tag. Many
opening tags require a following closing tag,
but not all do. Tags make up the entire structure
of an HTML document.
<b>This Text is Bold</b>
^^^--Opening Tag ^^^^--Closing Tag
Here are two pieces of HTML code, the second
of the two has an error in it, what is it?
#1 - Bob jumped OVER the fence.
#1 - Bob jumped <b>OVER</b> the
fence.
#2 - Bob jumped UNDER the fence.
#2 - Bob jumped <b>UNDER<b> the
fence.
You should have noticed that the second code
is missing a slash (/) in the tag after the word
UNDER, which causes the web browser to interpret
the code as leaving the bold face on! This is a
common error, so be careful of it!
Note: Tags in HTML are NOT case sensitive. For
example... <title> and <TitLE>
both mean the same thing and are interpreted as
being the same.
Document Structure...
HTML files are just normal text files... they usually
have the extension of .htm, .html, or .shtml. HTML
documents have two (2) parts, the head and
the body. The body is the larger part of
the document, as the body of a letter you would
write to a friend would be. The head of the document
contains the document's title and similar information,
and the body contains most everything else.
Example of basic HTML document Structure...
<html>
<head><title>Title goes here</title></head>
<body>Body goes here</body>
</html>
You may find it easier to read if you add
extra blank lines such as follows...
<html>
<head>
<title>Title goes here</title>
</head>
<body>
Body goes here
</body>
</html>
Note: Extra spaces and line breaks (blank
lines) will be ignored when the HTML is interpreted...
so add them if you wish to do so.
Whatever falls between the TITLE tags will be the
title of the document, when the page is viewed it
is usually found in the title bar at the top of
the screen. [Note: You may NOT use other tags within
the TITLE tags (Example: You cannot have the code
read: <title><b>title goes here</b></title>.]
Example of how titles are viewed...
In Netscape Navigator...
Netscape - [Title goes here] OR Title goes here
- Netscape [depending on version]
In Microsoft Internet Explorer...
Title goes here - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Whatever you place between the BODY tags will fall
into the major area of the document window, and
therefore it is the largest part of your HTML document.
Your own HTML page...
To begin writing your own HTML page, type the following
into a new text file:
<html>
<head><title>My Home Page</title></head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Save the text file as "Home.htm".
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