(You'd be amazed at how often sites are built without enough forethought, and what a difference thinking ahead can make.)
Thinking and planning will never — should never — go away. That is, you should always be evaluating your site and finding ways to make it better. But the more thinking you can do up front, the better.
If you haven't done this thinking yet, please go do so. (We'll wait right here for you.)
You're back? Good. Let's go over some basic HTML concepts ... such as, "What is HTML?" Then, let's start to build.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the major language of the World Wide Web. Using HTML, you can bring text, graphics, movies and sounds together in one place.
HTML documents have two main parts, the <HEAD> and the <BODY>. The <HEAD> contains the document's title as well as unseen information (meta information). The <BODY> contains the visible parts of the page. Both of these main parts are contained in the <HTML> tags.
- <html></html>
Creates your HTML document - <head></head>
Sets off the title and other info that's not shown on your webpage - <body></body>
Sets off the visible parts of your webpage
In the <BODY> tag, you can specify other aspects of the page such as:
- bgcolor=?
This tag sets the background color of your page. Replace the ? with a hexadecimal color code. White (#ffffff) is a common background color. - text=?
Specifies the color of your text using hexadecimal color code. Black (#000000) is a common text color. - link=?, alink=?, vlink=?
Sets the colors of links before, during and after being clicked on
Tags in HTML aren't case sensitive — meaning, for example, <BODY> and <BoDY> and <body> all mean the same thing to your browser (the software which interprets your HTML and displays it to you).
Next time, we'll start using fonts and other text formatting tags to fill your HTML page with content. See you then!
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