What is the World Wide Web ("the Web")?
The www is the multimedia portion of the Internet. This means that a Web site can consist of text, graphics, audio and video.

What is a browser?
A browser is software that allows you to access Web sites. Internet Explorer is the browser software that is used in our district.

What is a Web site?
A Web site is a server (a more powerful computer) at a specific location that runs server software that can store, manage, and send information. The main page of a particular Web site is it’s "home page"

What is hypertext?
Hypertext is the programming language used to construct Web sites. It allows you to click your mouse on designated words or pictures (known as links) in order to go to another Web page. The other linked Web page may be at the same site or anywhere in the world.

What is downloading?
Downloading is the process of transferring information from a Web site to your computer.

Writing HTML

You Can Create an HTML document with any word processor or text editor, including the very basic TeachText or Sample on the Mac and Notepad or Wordpad for Windows, both of which come free with the corresponding system software.
You can also buy a Web page editor, like PageMill of Frontpage.

HTML tags

HTML tags are commands written between less than (<) and greater than (>) signs, also know as angel bracket, that indicate how the browser should display the text. There are opening and closing versions for many (but not all) tags,and the affected text is contained within two tags. Both the opening and closing tags use the same command word but the closing tag carries an initial extra forward slash symbol/.
Example:   <B>Web Design</B>

Attributes

Many tags have special attributes that offer a variety of options for thecontained text. The attribute is entered between the command word and the final greater than symbol. Ofte, you can use a series of attribute in a single tag. imply write one after the other-in any order-with a space between each one.
Example:   <TABLE BORDER>

Values

Attributes in turn often have Values. In some cases, you must pick a value from a small group of choices. For example, the CLEAR attribute for the BR tag can take value of left, right, or all. Any other value given will be ignored.
Example:   <BR CLEAR=left>

For More Example
Click on Web Source: HTML CODE/Tag Chart

Useful Links

Guide to Learning HTML
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Sizzling HTML
Web page Designer for Designer
Web Design/HTML XML: Web Development
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