HTML - an Introduction

Welcome to the HTML course

Date: 22/2/07- 29/3/07  6weeks,  10-12 Thursdays

Please feel free to contact me with any queries. Don't forget to visit the College Intranet for more info. You need your learner number (on your receipt) and your date of birth to log on.

File management notes

Visit the Contacts Page for lots of interesting links

The Plain English Campaign's pages about creating web sites. Although this is dated 2001, I feel the information contained on the document is still very valid and useful.

About the course

Aim

To learn the basics of using HTML to produce web pages

 

Objectives, to be able to:

create simple web pages using a text editor
understand some of the source code of sites on the www
modify the source code produced by WYSIWYG html editors

 

A definition of HTML

 

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of mark-up symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page. The mark-up tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's words and images for the user. Each individual mark-up code is referred to as a tag or element. Some tags/elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to begin and when it is to end.

HTML is a formal Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is generally adhered to by the major browsers, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator, which also provide some additional non-standard codes. The current version of HTML is HTML 4.0. However, both Internet Explorer and Netscape implement some features differently and provide non-standard extensions. Web developers using the more advanced features of HTML 4 may have to design pages for both browsers and send out the appropriate version to a user

 

What you need to create a web site using HTML

 

A text editor to code your pages such as Notepad (free with Windows)

A browser to view your pages such as Internet Explorer

FTP software - lots to choose from on the web
 

Getting Started

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