MGMT 230 Lab 1 HTML Basics

2 HTML Tags An HTML document contains both document content and tags. The tags are the HTML codes inserted in a document to specify the format on screen. Each tag is enclosed in brackets ( ). Most tags are two-sided – opening and closing tags.

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7 HTML Links Hyperlinks are bits of text that connect the current document to: –Another location in the same document –Another document on the same host machine –Another document on the Internet Hyperlinks are created using the HTML anchor tag. Two popular link structures: –Linear hyperlink structure –Hierarchical hyperlink structure Click to see Figure 2-14:

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9 HTML Version History HTML version 1.0 was introduced in HTML 2.0 was released in Sept HTML 3.2 was introduced in HTML 4.0 was released by W3C in Dec HTML 4.01 was released in Dec XHTML 1.0 became a W3C recommendation in Jan

10 HTML Editors Low end editor displays HTML code on the screen and allow you to insert HTML tag pairs by clicking selected buttons. High end editor are Web site builder programs, they provide a rich environment that displays the Web page, not the HTML code. Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver are examples of Web site builders. Click to see Figure 2-15:

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13 Create a Web Page

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