HTML documents are plain-text (also known as ASCII) files that can be created
using any text editor. You can use Simple Text on a Macintosh; Notepad on
a Windows machine. Use word processing software if you save your documents
as "text-only" file.
Getting
Your Files on a Server
If you have access to a Web sever at school or work, many community have a FreeNet, here in Vancouver We have a FreeNet called The Vancouver CommunityNet. There is also many Free places on the Internet that offer free space, in order to advertise to you and your clients.
The
Tags
Explained
An element is
a fundamental component of the structure of a text document. Some examples
of elements are heads, tables, paragraphs, and lists. Think of it this way,
you use HTML tags to mark the elements of a file for your browser. Elements
can contain plain text, other elements, or both.
To denote the various elements in a HTML document, you use Tags. HTML tags consist of a less than sign <, and then a Greater than sign >, but through the rest of this document, we will call them angle brackets. Some tags can be either single or paired, when they are paired, there is an opening tag, and a closing tag, when a single tag is used, the start tag is the one to use,
Here is a start
heading tag: <H1>, and this is it's closing tag: </H1>. You see
the difference. The ending tag has a forward slash inserted after the first
angel bracket. A Heading tag is a closed tag, you need both the opening and
closing tags.
Some elements
may include an attribute, which is additional information that is included
inside the start tag. For example, you can specify the alignment attribute
of the IMAGES tag, it can be aligned to the top, middle, or bottom) by including
the appropriate attribute with the images source HTML code.
The
Minimal HTML Document
Every HTML document
should contain certain standard HTML tags. Each consists of a HTML tag, a
HEAD tag, a TITLE tag, a BODY tag. The Head contains the TITLE tag, and the
BODY contains the actual text, images and other elements of the document.
Required elements
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
A Teaching Tool
The Source Code,
To look at the source code for almost any Web pages on the Internet, most
Browsers will, under the VIEW menu, have something like view source, or source
something.. The source file will show you how all the tags were used to get
the effect you want.
