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Friday, August 31, 2012

Week 7 - Raw HTML

It is time to move on from compositions and begin learning about building websites.  The fundamental part of building a website is having an understanding of raw HTML.  HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.  Markup refers to how the text is presented - is it bold or a heading for example.

HTML is all about codes and tags.  It is a language for creating web pages and determines how information will look in a web browser.  There are some basic rules that you should follow when working with HTML.

1. All file names should be in lowercase
2. No special characters should be used except for underscore
3. Remember to use the 'html' extension

HTML is about lots of 'tags' and they usually work in pairs - a beginning tag and an ending tag.  To begin HTML you need to start it with the tag <html> and at the end the tag is </html> (the slash is used for the ending tag).  You also need to remember that any spaces will be ignored and that spaces need to be written in.  The <p> tag will give you a new paragraph.

There is a general basic structure when starting a new page:


<html>
<head>
<title> name of the page </title>
</head>
<body> </body>
</html>


The majority of information goes between the <body> </body> tags.

This is a really good site for Getting Started with HTML

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