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In creating a web page, it helps to know a little html code. In using a writing program such as Dreamweaver or Expression Web, working merely in design view and knowing nothing about HTML code is inadequate. The purpose of the following pages is to introduce people to the use of HTML code.
I started this project for a friend who wanted to learn how to construct a web page and did not want to wade through the turgid and unclear writings that one can find online or in book form. She will soon find the time to begin this project, and I'm planning on building on her work with these pages. Meanwhile, mail me any questions. Questions would help me make the additions that I'll eventually make to build these pages into a full blown manual.
The ten numbered lines below is a most simple representation of what the code view of an html document looks like.
Everything is within the html tags (lines 1 and 10). Within the heading tags (lines 2 and 5) are the document title, document descriptions and other stuff. Nothing in the heading appears when the document prints or appears other than in code view. What appears in the document is between the body tags (lines 6 and 9). Tags are like quotes - every opening tag has a closing tag. Closing tags are like the opening tags except that they include a slash.
1. <html>
2. <head>
3. <title> Lesson One </title>
4. <meta name="description" content= "A quick first step in learning to construct an HTML document or a website." />
5. </head>
6. <body>
7. <p> The p to the left stands for paragraph. </p>
8. <p> Blah blah. </p>
9. </body>
10. </html>
Copyright © 2008 Frank E. Smitha. All rights reserved.
