Creating a Web page Using Basic HTML

Creating a Web page Using Basic HTML

By: Magdalena Martinez

CIEP 491 (W 6:00)

Assessment #12

A Web page is

a simple te

xt file

& a se

t of H

TML tagsCreate a Simple Text

file using Notepad

Create a Simple Text file using SimpleText

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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: <html> beginning tag

</html> ending tag

<center>

<html>

<title>

<head>

<body>

The Web browser interprets these tags to decide how to format the text onto the screen.

Hey! Those are Web

browsers!

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.

Let’s begin constructing our…

Open Notepad or SimpleText

depending on which platform you are using

<html> <head> <title>My First Page</title> </head><body> Hello there. This is my first page! </body> </html>

Save this file as first.html on your

desktop.

Type in the text as displayed.

We created the Title of the web

page

AND

the body of the web page!

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.

<hr>creates a horizontal rule, or horizontal line.

... to change font color

... to change font type

<body bgcolor=“color"> body background color

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.

A Beginner’s Guide to HTMLhttp://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Demo/html-primer.html

Loyola’s Unix Computing Systemhttp://orion.it.luc.edu/

Yahoo Directory on HTMLhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Data_Formats/HTML/

The Web’s Largest Hosting Directoryhttp://www.hostindex.com/

How Stuff Workshttp://www.howstuffworks.com/category.htm?cat=Comp

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Creating a Web page Using Basic HTML