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(HTML) Basic Concepts of Web Design

This document provides an introduction to basic concepts of web design, including hypertext, markup languages, HTML, and the structure of an HTML file. It discusses how HTML uses tags to format text and create web pages. An HTML file needs to follow a specific structure, with elements like the <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> tags. Text formatting is also covered, noting that tags are needed to control formatting like italics, bold, paragraphs, headings, line breaks, and horizontal rules. An activity at the end prompts the reader to practice inserting tags in Notepad to display a sample website layout.

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(HTML) Basic Concepts of Web Design

This document provides an introduction to basic concepts of web design, including hypertext, markup languages, HTML, and the structure of an HTML file. It discusses how HTML uses tags to format text and create web pages. An HTML file needs to follow a specific structure, with elements like the <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> tags. Text formatting is also covered, noting that tags are needed to control formatting like italics, bold, paragraphs, headings, line breaks, and horizontal rules. An activity at the end prompts the reader to practice inserting tags in Notepad to display a sample website layout.

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BASIC CONCEPTS OF WEB DESIGN

MODULE: 6.1
INTODUCTION..

H YPER  Hyper text: refers to the way in which you can move
from one place to another (maybe to another place

T EXT
within the same webpage or to a brand-new webpage)
e.g. clicking HOME or a ‘pay now’ option within a
webpage.

M
 Markup language: the use of English words or tags to
ARKUP annotate text (to mark the language/apply rules to
particular text used in your webpage)

L ANGUAGE
HOW HTML IS USED TO CREATE A WEB PAGE

 HTML is the standard markup language currently being used for creating a webpage.

 It is used to give instructions on how web pages should be displayed in a browser. It is the key to having a website.

 It is called a markup language because it uses markup tags to describe how the text on a webpage should be formatted.

Tags refers to a rule that


<i> gives the instruction to
applies to text which follows Tags are codes enclosed
Most tags come in pairs (the start displaying text in italics
the tag. Describes the within angle brackets. E.g.
opening/start tag and the and <i/> gives the instruction
formatting that should be <i> my hobbies </i> will be
closing/end tag) to stop displaying text in
done to the text on the web displayed as my hobbies
italics
page.
 To create a web page, the text that should be displayed on the web page as well as all the markup tags are placed in a text
file.
 This file has the extension .html and is called an HTML file.

 The web browsers can read HTML files. The browser interprets the HTML markup tags and then displays the content (the
text between the markup tags) as ‘instructed’ by the markup tags.
EXAMPLE:

Text for web page

<i> Welcome everyone </i> - this is my <b> very first formatted </b> webpage!

Start of End of Start of End of


formatting – formatting – formatting – formatting –
italic italic bold bold

A browser will interpret and display this as:

Welcome everyone – this is my very first formatted webpage!


HTML files need to be created
STRUCTURE according to a specific structure. The
diagram that follows provides a layout
OF AN HTML of the main elements of and HTML
file:
FILE
• The html element contains all the other
elements and shows where an HTML file
begins and ends. It also, allows the web
page to be displayed in other browsers.
• The head element contains other elements
like the title element. It is the information
about the webpage.
• The title element contains the web page title
which will appear in the tab of the browser.
Search engines display the title content in
their search results.
• The body element contains all the text and
images you want to display on the web
page. It is what you actually see on the
webpage.
FORMATTING WEB PAGES

 Note that the way the text is aligned or positioned in an HTML file in the editor (Notepad) is not necessarily the way it
will be displayed when the actual web page is displayed in a browser.
 Text enclosed between paragraph tags <p> and </p> in an HTML file is considered to be a unit. Even if you use the Enter
key to display text in a paragraph element on different lines, on the web page the text will be displayed as one paragraph.
 Syntax (grammar/spelling) and order are important. E.g. <b><i> this text has two formats </i></b> (when combining
tags, the end tags of ‘nested’ tags must be placed in the reverse order)
 Line breaks (<br/>) and horizontal rule/line (<hr/>) tags can be used to structure text on a web page.

 Different heading tags results in headings of different font sizes. <h1>…..<h6>


ACTIVITY:
PRACTICE ACTIVITY:
OPEN NOTEPAD AND INSERT THE CORRECT TAGS SO THAT YOUR WEBSITE
IS DISPLAYED EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS:

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