2. What We’ll be Going Over:
How a website works
What HTML is
How to write HTML
CSS, HTML’s stylish best friend
HTML in WordPress
What NOT to do with your new skills
Beyond Bootcamp
5. What is HTML?
HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language
It is not a programming language, it is a
markup language that consists of a set up
markup tags.
These markup tags are
used to describe web pages.
W3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
6. What are tags?
Tags surround plain text and describe web pages.
They are keywords or letters surrounded by angle
brackets like:
<html>
They normally come in pairs:
<body> </body>
The first tag is a start tag (aka an opening tag)
& the second is an end tag (aka closing tag)
W3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
8. What You’ll Need:
To Write:
Text Editing Program
We use Dreamweaver
TextWrangler for Mac or Komodo Edit for PC users (free)
Notepad also works
To Publish:
Hosting Space
FTP Credentials
FTP Program
9. Do You Have What You Need?
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR?
10. DOCTYPE – before the
html tag, refers to
version of markup
html – describes the
where the webpage
starts and ends
head – for specific
information that is not
visible on the page
body – holds the visible
page content
Web Page’s Basic Structure
http://w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
11. Common Tags
a head
address html
blockquote img
body li
br link
div ol
em p
h1 span
h2 strong
h3 style
h4 strong
h5 title
h6 ul
http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/html/html
12. Write a Letter Home
Login:
Host:
User:
Password:
Download
letterhome.html
Open letterhome.html in a text
editor (not Word!)
OR
Flip to the letter home in your
workbook
13. Add Tags To Your Letter Home
Start your document <html>
Start and End your head and body:
<head></head> and <body></body>
End your document </html>
14. Edit Your Letter Home
Fill in the blanks/replace the
all CAPS text
Insert the following tags where you
think they go:
title
h1
h2
p
strong
ol
ul
li
a
em
15. <title></title>
Used to describe the page’s content
Displays in the browser window
Used in SEO
20. <ul></ul> VS <ol></ol> & <li></li>
Used to start and end lists
ul stands for Un-Ordered List
ol stands for Ordered List
li tags are used for both types of lists
li tags are on individual List Items
21. Links (Anchor Tags)
<a href=“destination/action”>What people click on</a>
Composed of 3 parts:
Anchor tag: <a>
href attribute: href=“” (inside the starting anchor tag)
Content that people click on (must be in between anchor starting and
closing tags)
22. Different Types of Links
To a website/webpage:
<a href=“http://www.mayecreate.com/”>Our Website</a>
To an email address:
<a href=“mailto:info@mayecreate.com”>Email Us!</a>
For a phone number:
<a href=“tel:5734471836”>Call Us!</a>
23. Open Link In a New Window
This is controlled through the target attribute within your
linked anchor tag:
<a href=“http://www.facebook.com/mayecreate” target=“_blank”>
Find Us on Facebook</a>
_blank = open in a new window or tab
_self = open in same frame as it was clicked
_parent = open in the parent frameset
_top = open in the full body of the window
Default (if left off) is to open in the same window/frame
24. Images
<img src=“http://mayecreate.com/images/filename.jpg”
height=“150” width=“100” />
Composed of 3 parts:
tag: <img />
*Self-closing tag – don’t need </img>
src attribute: src=“”
inside the address of exactly where the image lives online
dimensions: height=“” width=“”
if left off, image will display at full size
this is in pixels automatically, but percent can also be used
25. Images
Image are great for adding interest
If they are too big, they can increase loading time
Keep loading time down by making images for web:
72 ppi (pixels per inch) = web resolution
Less than 700 pixels tall or 700 pixels wide
26. Image File Types
JPG = white background, best for gradients
GIF = for web, not really useable by other programs,
can have transparent background, or not
PNG = best for transparent backgrounds
27. Common Mistakes
It is very common for the following mistakes to
happen when using HTML:
Mis-spellings (reference your tags list)
Brackets are missing
Tags don’t close
</tag> tag = whatever tag you are trying to close
Tags open and close, but don’t match
28. Example of a Broken HTML
Before: the image is not After: the image is free of
displaying above the any other tags and displays
columns at the top of the page
29. How to View HTML in WordPress
Login to your WordPress Dashboard
Go to a Page or Post
Click on the HTML tab
30. Broken? Go back a revision.
At the bottom of your page, find the revision’s panel
Click on the last version
before it was broken
and “restore”
If not available, check the box
in the screen options
31. Practice Proofing
Mistakes happen… using what you’ve learned so
far, can you find the 7 mistakes in the
proof_letterhome.html file? (see workbook)
Hints:
If it opens, it must close
It must be spelled correctly
All tags need to be held in < >
32. HTML’s Stylish Best Friend: CSS
All web browsers have default styles for the standard
html tags.
We use CSS to style elements so they look cleaner
and fit the style of the website/client
This is accomplished through CSS
33. What is CSS?
CSS stands for: Cascading Style Sheets
It is a language of styles that tell browsers how to
display HTML elements
34. CSS – Stylesheet vs. Inline Styling
2 ways to style HTML:
External stylesheet Inline styling
Linked inside head tag Written within the tag it is
Allows the same styles to being applied to
be applied to lots of Only applied in that
different elements instance
throughout a site Little easier than drafting
Files end in .css a whole stylesheet
36. Inline Styles
Within the tag you are wanting to change, you must
add the style attribute:
<p style=“ ”>Text I want to change</p>
This is where we will be telling it how to look
37. Changing the Color
Changing Text Color: Changing Background
color:#FFCC99; Color:
background-color:#336633;
#FFFFFF #CCCCCC #666666 #333333 #000000
Find Hexidecimal Codes: http://www.mayecreate.com/2010/09/color-codes/
38. Typeface Changes
This can be done by defining your font family using:
font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
Its important to list several typefaces, so if the device being
used to view your page doesn’t have it, it depreciates to the
next best thing.
There are several fonts that are considered universal
39. Universal Fonts / Standard Font-Families
Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif
Courier New, Courier, monospace
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif
Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif
Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grand, sans-serif
40. Big Changes = <div></div>
div = a “box” that can hold many different
things, including other divs!
You can wrap content in div tags:
<div></div>
Styles applied to a div apply to everything within the tags
unless over-written by inline styles
41. Rules of Divs:
They can be nested
The end tag closes the open div immediately before it
Example:
<div>
<div class=“column1”>Contents in column 1</div>
<div class=“column2”>
Contents of column 2
</div>
</div>
42. Small Changes = <span></span>
Spans are inline elements that apply only to what
they surround
They don’t take up any more space than needed
You can wrap content in span tags:
<span></span>
Styles applied to a span only apply to what they wrap
43. Floating on the River
Floating objects can allow all kinds of fun things to
happen on your website.
It allows text to “wrap” around images
2 options:
float:left;
float:right;
44. Rules of the River
Float left unless absolutely necessary.
If you float left, the text or other content that needs
to move up to the right of the floating object can go
before or after it.
If floating right, the content that you want to appear
to the left of the floating object must come after it.
45. S’more Things to Remember
Text colors need to have good contrast so your
viewers can read it.
Using more than two fonts gets confusing really
quickly!
Make changes thoughtfully
48. What We Covered:
How a website works
What HTML is
How to write HTML
CSS, HTML’s stylish best friend
HTML in WordPress
What NOT to do with your new skills
Beyond Bootcamp
49. Learn More @ Columbia Area Career Center
This Fall, I’m teaching several classes:
Designing Effective Publications
Digital Publishing Standards
Adobe InDesign Modules 1-4
If interested, sign up at career-center.org/adult
