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Introduction to

HTML

Definitions

 (^) W W W – World Wide Web.  (^) HTML – HyperText Markup Language – The Language of Web Pages on the World Wide Web. HTML is a text formatting language.  (^) URL – Uniform Resource Locator.  (^) Browser – A software program which is used to show web pages.

Tags

 Codes enclosed in brackets

 Usually paired

My Web Page

 (^) Not case sensitive

= <title> = <TITLE>

Choosing Text Editor  (^) There are many different programs that you can use to create web documents.  (^) HTML Editors enable users to create documents quickly and easily by pushing a few buttons. Instead of entering all of the HTML codes by hand.  (^) These programs will generate the HTML Source Code for you.

7 Starting NotePad NotePad is the standard text editor that comes with the microsoft windows operating system. To start NotePad in windows 9x or XP follow the steps bellow:  (^) Click on the “Start” button located on your Windows task bar.  (^) Click on “Programs” and then click on the directory menu labeled “Accessories”.  (^) Locate the shortcut “NotePad” and click

8 HTML P age C reation & E diting In this chapter you will learn to create HTML pages with a standard text editor. Objectives Upon completing this section, you should be able to

1. Choose a Text Editor.
2. Create a Basic Starting Document.
3. Understand and set Document Properties.
4. View Your Results in a Browser.

Creating a Basic Starting Document  (^) The HEAD of your document point to above window part. The TITLE of your document appears in the very top line of the user’s browser. If the user chooses to “Bookmark” your page or save as a “Favorite”; it is the TITLE that is added to the list.  (^) The text in your TITLE should be as descriptive as possible because this is what many search engines, on the internet, use for indexing your site.

Setting Document Properties

 Document properties are controlled

by attributes of the BODY element.

For example, there are color settings

for the background color of the page,

the document’s text and different

states of links.

Main Colours

RGB Colour Model

Color Codes

1. WHITE
2. BLACK
3. RED
4. GREEN
5. BLUE
6. MAGENTA
7. CYAN
8. YELLOW
9. AQUAMARINE
10. BAKER’S CHOCOLATE
11. VIOLET
12. BRASS
13. COPPER
14. PINK
15. ORANGE
    1. #FFFFFF

    2. 000000

    3. #FF
    4. #00FF
    5. #0000FF
    6. #FF00FF
    7. #00FFFF
    8. #FFFF
    9. #70DB
    10. #5C
    11. #9F5F9F
    12. #B5A
    13. #B
    14. #FF6EC
    15. #FF7F

Color Codes  (^) If you require more information about color values, there is an excellent site entitled “VGDesign’s Interactive Color Cube” that displays the background color code when you put your cursor over a small color sample. The Web address is : http://www.vgdesign.com/color.html

Background Color  (^) It is very common to see web pages with their background color set to white or some other colors.  (^) To set your document’s background color, you need to edit the element by adding the BGCOLOR attribute. The following example will display a document with a white background color:

TEXT Color  (^) The TEXT attribute is used to control the color of all the normal text in the document. The default color for text is black. The TEXT attribute would be added as follows:

In this example the document’s page color is white and the text would be red.