2. Learning Intentions
In this lesson, you will be able to:
■ Describe whatWWW and URL stand for
■ Describe what HTML is
■ Use HTML tags to create simple web pages
■ Modify HTML tags using styling to improve the appearance of web pages
3. WWW and URL
■ WWW –WorldWideWeb, the part of the Internet that displays web pages.
■ URL – Uniform Resource Locator, the web address for a webpage.
4. What is aWeb Browser?
■ AWeb Browser is a software program which is used to show web pages.
5. HTML
■ HTML or HyperText Mark-up Language is used to create web pages.
6. What is HTML?
■ HTML is code written inside tags < > that allow you to display information and pictures
on a web page.
■ Each tag has a beginning < > and an end </> tag. For Example:
■ Beginning <html> End </html>
■ Each HTML tag is used to describe different parts of a web page.
7. Notepad
■ HTML is written using the application Notepad:
■ <!DOCTYPE html> - Is used to declare your document is used to create a web page.
■ We put this at the beginning of every HTML document we create.
8. From Notepad toWeb Page
■ Once you have written your HTML code, we need to save it.
■ Each HTML document is saved as .html
■ So when we open the document again, it will open in a web browser and show us the
webpage we created.
9. Tag Meanings
■ <html> .... </html> HyperText Markup Language.
■ <head> .... </head> The header which appears as a title in the tab.
■ <title> .... </title> The title of the document.
■ <h1>………. </h1> The heading which appears at the top of the page.
■ <body> …..</body> All other content in the HTML document.
■ ALWAYS OPEN ANDCLOSE ALLTAGS!
11. SuccessCriteria
After this series of lessons, I can:
■ Describe whatWWW and URL stand for
■ Describe what HTML is
■ Use HTML tags to create simple web pages
■ Modify HTML tags using styling to improve the appearance of web pages
