(HYPER-TEXT-MARKUP-LANGUAGE) By: Saima Islam By: Saima Islam

Hypertext mark-up language is what webpages are written in. HTML was written by Tim Berners- Lee in Berners-Lee also invented the Web. These websites can then be viewed by anyone else connected to the Internet. Mark-up is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text (italicised text, for example). HTML is a Language, as it has code-words and syntax like any other language. WHAT IS HTML?

Questions… What is Marquee? Marquee is a tag that scrolls the text from right to left. What tag is used when you want to create a name for the page you are creating? TITLE. This is a great tag to use on every page you make. It easily defines what is on the page, shows up in search engine results and when someone bookmarks your page, the title will also show up on their list. What tag is used when you want to insert a picture? IMG. The IMG tag is one of the few HTML tags that stands alone, as it requires no closing tag with it. What is a web browser? A web browser is a software for retrieving, presenting and traversing information on the World Wide Web, e.g. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer etc. How does it work? HTML consists of a series of short codes typed into a text- file by the site author — these are the tags. The text is then saved as a html file, and viewed through a browser, like Internet Explorer. This browser reads the file and translates the text into a visible form, hopefully rendering the page as the author had intended. Writing your own HTML entails using tags correctly to create your vision. You can use anything from a rudimentary text-editor to a powerful graphical editor to create HTML pages.

FUNCTIONS Text alignments are when you choose whether the text should be left or right. An ordered list is a list that is ordered chronologically. A numbered list is a function that automatically numbers your list., This function allows you to create the body of the page (the main text)., This function allows you to add more text like paragraphs., This function allows you to create a title.