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Lesson One: Untangling The Web

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“Lesson One : Untangling the Web”

Summary
The tools for creating a webpage are the text editor and the web browser. The basic
pattern for most HTML commands is <tag>command</tag>. The DOCTYPE declaration is
necessary for every webpage. The main elements of and HTML document are: html, head, title,
and body. W3C is the governing body that handles the internet’s functionality.

Word Bank
Browser used in viewing webpage
Empty Tag tags that do not have opening and closing tags
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
Notepad uses basic text formatting in order to make and edit text files
Tags HTML commands
URL Uniform Resource Locator
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XHTML eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

Tags
<html> Indicates that the file is composed of HTML commands
<head> Usually contains the title tag
<title> Encloses the written content what will appear in the title bar
<body> Includes all the other tags, elements and contents of your page

“Lesson Two : Playing with Tags”


Summary
The two types of links are external and internal, which can also pertain to an absolute
URLD or a relative URL, respectively. The markup for hyperlinks is <a> </a>. E-mail addresses
and image may also be used as links.

Word Bank
Dead Link a link that leads the user to a blank or error page
Definition Lista list of terms with their corresponding definitions
Download Link a link that opens a download dialog box
External Link a link to a file/page that does not belong to the site
Headings organize a document and distinguish different sections/topics
Hyperlinks clicked to access other files/webpage/different part of the page
Internal Link a link to any part of the webpage
Links pointers to the pages they reference
Nesting placing one set of tags inside another set of tags

Tags
<h1> - <h6> Heading
<p> Paragraph
<br /> Line Break
<b> Boldface
<i> Italics
<ul> Unordered List
<ol> Ordered List
<li> List Item
<dl> Definition List
<dt> Definition Terms
<dd> Definition Data
<pre> Preformatted Text
<hr> Horizontal Line

“Lesson Three : Planning Your Website”


Summary
A website has to contain a home page at the very least, which is usually saved as
“index.html” or “default.html”. Your website can contain different website sections which
contain information that are grouped according to your desires. Aside from the user-defined web
sections. There are other suggested sections such as a site section, about me/contact me section,
site map section, site link section, and guestbook section.

Word Bank
Audience is a group of people who are expected to visit your website
Usability is a term used to denote the methods of measuring usability and the study
of the principles behind and object’s perceived efficiency or elegance

“Lesson Four : Fashioning Text Styles and


Color”
Summary
Style sheets define how HTML tags display in a browser. In this lesson, three tyoes if
CSS where presented: in-line, internal and external. The appearance of any text in a page may be
manipulated through the different font properties, color values, and paragraph properties.

Word Bank
Comments written remarks in your HTML or CSS documents which will not be
displayed in the browser
Declaration in a webpage development, refers to the structure property: value
Deprecated a deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated; it may
become absolute in the future, but browsers should continue to support it for backward
compatibility
Escape Sequence other characters with special meanings in HTML that cannot be used as
they are in a text
External Style Sheet a separate document where all style sheet information are stored
Hexadecimal a numbering system that is base-16
Internal Style Sheet stores style information in the <head> tag
In-Line Style Sheet stores information inside HTML tag
Typeface another name for font

Tags
<center> Centers text
<u> Underlines text
<s> Defines strikethrough text
<font> Indentifies font characteristics

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