2. Creating a Web page Using Basic HTML By: Magdalena Martinez CIEP 491 (W 6:00) Assessment #12

3. A Web page is a simple text file & a set of HTML tags Create a Simple Text file using Notepad Create a Simple Text file using SimpleText

4. The tags are simple instructions that tell the Web browser how the page should look. The tags tell the browser to do things like change the font size or color, or arrange things in columns. Most tags come in matched "beginning" and "ending" pairs, but this is not an absolute rule. Ex: beginning tag ending tag

5. The Web browser interprets these tags to decide how to format the text onto the screen. Hey! Those are Web browsers!

6. Right Click on any blank portion of a web page and select View Source You can look "behind the scenes" of almost any page on the Internet this way.

7. Let’s begin constructing our… Open Notepad or SimpleText depending on which platform you are using

8. My First Page Hello there. This is my first page! Save this file as first.html on your desktop. Type in the text as displayed.

9. We created the Title of the web page AND the body of the web page!

10. Got Tags?? Basic HTML Tags..... to Bold..... to Italicize..... to Underline creates a break between one line and another. creates an extra space between two lines of text. creates a horizontal rule, or horizontal line.... to change font color... to change font type body background color

11. There are also many commercial sites that offer free space. Many institutions with Web servers offer free space to post your pages As Loyola students we can have access to Orion.

12. A Beginner’s Guide to HTML http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Demo/html-primer.html Loyola’s Unix Computing System http://orion.it.luc.edu/ Yahoo Directory on HTML http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Data_Formats/HTML/ The Web’s Largest Hosting Directory http://www.hostindex.com/ How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/category.htm?cat=Comp