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HTML For Beginners: Basic Tags

This document provides an overview of basic HTML tags for beginners, including tags for page structure (<html>, <head>, <body>), text formatting (<h1>, <b>, <i>, <font>), links (<a>), lists (<ol>, <li>, <ul>), images (<img>), tables (<table>, <tr>, <td>), and more. It also recommends a book for further reading on HTML and provides instructions for mapping a network drive to access files on the USI server.

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HTML For Beginners: Basic Tags

This document provides an overview of basic HTML tags for beginners, including tags for page structure (<html>, <head>, <body>), text formatting (<h1>, <b>, <i>, <font>), links (<a>), lists (<ol>, <li>, <ul>), images (<img>), tables (<table>, <tr>, <td>), and more. It also recommends a book for further reading on HTML and provides instructions for mapping a network drive to access files on the USI server.

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HTML for Beginners

Instructor: Brandi Hess, Graphic Designer in Web Services

Basic Tags
<html></html>
Creates an HTML document

<head></head>
Sets off the title and other information that isn't displayed on the Web page itself

<body></body>
Sets off the visible portion of the document

Header Tags
<title></title>
Puts the name of the document in the title bar

Body Attributes
<body bgcolor=?>
Sets the background color, using hex value

Text Tags
<h1></h1>
Creates the largest headline

<b></b>
Creates bold text

<i></i>
Creates italic text

<font size=?></font>
Sets size of font, from 1 to 7)

<font color=?></font>
Sets font color, using hex value

Links
<a href="URL"></a>
Creates a hyperlink

<a href="mailto:EMAIL"></a>
Creates a mailto link

<a name="NAME"></a>
Creates a target location within a document
<a href="#NAME"></a>
Links to that target location from elsewhere in the document

Formatting
<p></p>
Creates a new paragraph

<p align=?></p>
Aligns a paragraph to the left, right, or center

<br>
Inserts a line break

<blockquote></blockquote>
Indents text from both sides

<ol></ol>
Creates a numbered list

<li></li>
Precedes each list item, and adds a number

<ul></ul>
Creates a bulleted list

<div align=?>
A generic tag used to format large blocks of HTML, also used for stylesheets

Graphical Elements
<img src="name">
Adds an image

<img src="name" alt=”?”>


Alt is for the alternative text description for images.

<img src="name" align=?>


Aligns an image: left, right, center; bottom, top, middle

<img src="name" border=?>


Sets size of border around an image

<hr>
Inserts a horizontal rule

<hr width=?>
Sets width of rule, in percentage or absolute value
<hr noshade>
Creates a rule without a shadow

Tables
<table></table>
Creates a table

<tr></tr>
Sets off each row in a table

<td></td>
Sets off each cell in a row

Recommended Book:
Castro, Elizabeth. HTML For the World Wide Web. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0-201-69696-7

Map a drive

You should only have to do this once. The USI server will appear on the Q: drive of your computer.

On the desktop, right click on My Network Places and go to Map a Drive. Select Q: and type the following
in the second window:

\\www\www_usi
Username - fpage
Password – 12345

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