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Creating A Simple Page - HTML Overview

The document discusses creating a simple HTML webpage by walking through the steps of adding markup tags. It will introduce HTML elements and attributes that provide document structure, and give a first look at using CSS styling. The goal is for readers to understand the markup process, how browsers interpret HTML, and the basic structure of an HTML document.

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Creating A Simple Page - HTML Overview

The document discusses creating a simple HTML webpage by walking through the steps of adding markup tags. It will introduce HTML elements and attributes that provide document structure, and give a first look at using CSS styling. The goal is for readers to understand the markup process, how browsers interpret HTML, and the basic structure of an HTML document.

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CreatIng a

sImPle Page
(HTML Overview)
Part I provided a general overview of the web design environment. Now that IN THIs CHAPTER
we’ve covered the big concepts, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and start cre-
ating a real web page. It will be an extremely simple page, but even the most An introduction to
elements and attributes
complicated pages are based on the principles described here.
A step-by-step demo
In this chapter, we’ll create a web page step by step so you can get a feel for
of marking up
what it’s like to mark up a document with HTML tags. The exercises allow a simple web page
you to work along.
The elements that provide
This is what I want you to get out of this chapter: document structure
• Get a feel for how markup works, including an understanding of ele- A simple stylesheet
ments and attributes.
Troubleshooting
• See how browsers interpret HTML documents. broken web pages
• Learn the basic structure of an HTML document.
• Get a first glimpse of a style sheet in action.
Don’t worry about learning the specific text elements or style sheet rules
at this point; we’ll get to those in the following chapters. For now, just pay
attention to the process, the overall structure of the document, and the new
terminology.

A Web Page, step by step


You got a look at an HTML document in Chapter 1, How the Web Works,
but now you’ll get to create one yourself and play around with it in the
browser. The demonstration in this chapter has five steps that cover the
basics of page production.
Step 1: Start with content. As a starting point, we’ll write up raw text con-
tent and see what browsers do with it.
Step 2: Give the document structure. You’ll learn about HTML element
syntax and the elements that give a document its structure.

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