1. CIS 141 Western Kentucky University
Making Web Pages

2. Why do I have to learn about Web pages?
Why do you have to learn about HTML:
Chapter 2 of the textbook covers the Internet and World Wide Web so it is testable material.
You will use it at WKU. Other CIS classes such as CIS 243 include Web topics. Other classes will require you to create a Web site as part of a project (more common every year).
Employers will expect you to be comfortable using and working with Web pages. You will be the newest, youngest person in the office so they (older people) expect that you are familiar with it.

3. Basics The Internet The World Wide Web documents Browser Software
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
The Internet evolved from a project to research packet switching networks. The resulting network was called APRPAnet.
World Wide Web documents were invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
A browser is software that a computer uses to display Web pages.

4. Web Pages Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Examples of HTML code
Making Web pages
Manual HTML coding
HTML Editors
Dreamweaver
ExpressionWeb
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Word
As stated a moment ago, browsers display Web pages for us. Web pages are created using hypertext markup language (HTML), a markup language. It consists of tags that browser programs can understand.
Let’s look at some! Briefly show examples of HTML code in the two examples pages that accompany this presentation. Point out how lean the code in these examples is. Pages created with editors include much more overhead.
Although you can create Web pages by manually coding them, most people don’t. Software programs called HTML editors can do it for you.
Please note that knowing basic HTML is VERY helpful for Web site developers, even people that use an editor (99%). It can help you fix problems quickly!