1. HTML INTRODUCTION

2. What is HTML?  HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language  Developed in 1990  Hidden code that helps us communicate with others on the Internet  HTML is not case sensitive

3. Tags  Used to create structure  Tells the browser how to display text and graphics  Tags do not show when you are viewing an actual page  Tags are always surrounded by angle brackets

4. TAGS (Container)  You must have a beginning and ending tag for most commands.  These are called container tags  Beginning tags are structured as follows  Ending tags are structured as follows Notice the / on the closing tag which tells the browser that the tag has ended.

5. Other common container tags include  and  and (etc.)  and

6. TAGS (empty)  An empty tag stands alone  There is no ending tag  An example would be the line break tag, represented by the br

7. To build any web page,  You need four primary container tags

8. All web pages start with  All web pages end with  This tells the browser that the following document is an html file. Tags tell the browsers how to display information.

9. Head Section  The head tag contains the title of the document and any general information about the file  Examples: Copyright Author Keywords Description of content

10. Title  Appears inside the head tags  Gives the title of your page  Shows up in the title bar at the top  Make it descriptive  Not more than 20 words in length

11. BODY  This tag contains the main content of your page  Everything that should show on your actual page should appear between these two tags

12. Creating your first web page  Use Notepad to create your HTML pages  When you save the document, you should add.html after the name

13. Student Action: Type the following This is my first web page. Hello world. This is my first web page. There’s more to come.

14. Save As  Firstpage.html Always add.html after the name.  To preview your new document, open Internet Explorer  On the toolbar, select File, then Open  Click Browse and find your file in your folder  Congratulations! You have just created your first page.