WFIC/Ameritech Beginning Web Page Workshop

Intro to HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is used to prepare documents for the World Wide Web.

HTML:

is standardized

consists of codes, or "tags"

tages usually come in pairs: <TAGNAME>...</TAGNAME>

defines structure of a web page

defines format of a web page

Basic HTML template

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Title of Document</TITLE></HEAD>

<BODY>
Body of text.
</BODY>
</HTML>

The following HTML markup (shown without the necessary frame, above) produces the web page shown:

Filename: sample.html
[Graphic of HTML source code]
[Graphic of web page that
results from the HTML source code at left.]

The Web is made up of links between documents. The HTML format for links looks like this:

<A HREF="http://www.beloit.edu">Beloit College web page</A>

The link on the Web page looks like this: