A guide to HTML

Slide 1 HTML: Hypertext Markup Language Pull down View, then Source, to see the HTML code. Slide 1

Slide 2 Basic page Search engines

Slide 3 Basic page Search engines The tag sets text as a heading in style 1. Valid tags are ; ; ; ; ;. What effect does changing the number have?

Slide 4 Basic page Search engines Yahoo Excite Google creates a line break and can be used to begin and end a paragraph

Slide 5 Adding hyperlinks Search engines Yahoo Excite Google The URL of a hyperlink must be enclosed in quotation marks

Slide 6 Adding the title Information on search engines Search engine Yahoo Excite Google The title is not the same as the page heading

Slide 7 Creating the HTML file The text file can be created in a simple text editor such as Notepad. The file name must have.htm at the end to indicate a web page. The file contains instructions to the web browser which describe how the page should look.