Title: Basics of HTML
 1Webpage Design
- Basics of HTML 
- Dreamweaver  creating a web page 
- Fireworks  creating graphics for web pages 
- Flash  creating animated movies for the internet 
- www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/rsummit/hancock
2HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext is the method by which documents, 
files, and multimedia data are organized, 
referenced, and navigated via the World Wide Web.
HTML is used to create Web Pages. HTML tags 
determine the colors, pictures, and backgrounds 
on Web Pages
- HTML tags work with a web browser 
-  Internet Explorer 
-  Netscape Navigator
3Getting Started With HTML
-  An HTML file can be created in Textpad or other 
 text applications
-  File is saved with htm or html as an extension 
-  HTML is not case sensitive  you can use upper 
 or lower case letters for tags
- All tags are enclosed in angle brackets e.g., 
 ltHEADgt
-  There are two types of tags 
-  1. Container - has an opening ltgt  closing tag 
 lt/gt
-  2. Empty - has only an opening tag 
4The Basic Template
Document structure tags that are placed around 
entire document
ltHTMLgt ltHEADgt ltTITLEgtPlace page Title Here 
lt/TITLEgt lt/HEADgt ltBODYgt lt/BODYgt lt/HTMLgt
Preliminary tags that are placed before main body 
of page
Places Title in Web Browser
Tags placed around all text, graphics, etc., that 
are not in the Head All Content placed Here
All of these are container tags 
 5TITLE TAG
- Whatever is placed between the Title Tag will 
 Display in the blue part of the Web Browser
- Code to produce Page 
- ltHTMLgt ltHEADgt ltTITLEgtUSA 
 Hockeylt/TITLEgt
-  ltHEADgt
6ltBRgt Empty tag that ends a line ltTITLEgt lt/TITLEgt 
Container tags that name your page and appear at 
the top of the browsers interface placed inside 
the ltHEADgt lt/HEADgt tags. ltH1gt lt/H1gt Container 
tags that place a heading these range from H1 
through H6. (H1 is the largest!) ltCENTERgt 
lt/CENTERgt Container tags that center 
text. ltMARQUEEgtlt/MARQUEEgt Container tags that 
make text scroll across your page. nbsp  adds a 
space! 
 7ltPgt - Empty tag that causes a break 
(twice) ltNOBRgt lt/NOBRgt - Container tags that 
ensure there will not be a break to the next line
Physical Character Style browser dependent! ltBgt 
lt/Bgt - Container tags that bold text ltIgt lt/Igt - 
Container tags that italicize text ltUgt lt/Ugt - 
Container tags that underline text ltSUPgt lt/SUPgt - 
Container tags that superscript text ltSUBgt lt/SUBgt 
- Container tags that subscript text 
 8Attribute Syntax
- Attribute - Enhances HTML tag (colors, size, 
 font, etc.)
- Value - Assigns a value to an attribute (what 
 color, what size, what font, etc.)
- Attributes are placed within the opening tag of a 
 container tag.
-  Attributes must be separated from the tag 
 element by a single space only.
-  Multiple attributes of a single tag may be 
 presented in any order.
-  Multiple attributes must be separated by a 
 single space.
-  If an attribute has a value consisting of more 
 than one word, enclose the attribute value in
 quotation marks.
Tag Tag ltHR WIDTH75gt ltFONT FACEBook 
Antiquagt HR  tag element FONT  tag 
element WIDTH  attribute FACE - attribute 75 - 
value Book Antiqua  value  
 9Attributes for BODY tags TEXT - attribute that 
specifies the color of the text in the body 
values of TEXT are the RGB colors BGCOLOR - 
attribute that specifies the background color of 
the page values are the RGB colors BACKGROUND - 
attribute that specifies a background image 
value is the image path  
 10HORIZONTAL RULE TAGS
ltHRgt Empty tag that places a horizontal rule on a 
page used to separate page into different 
sections.
 Attributes of the ltHRgt tag Width - An attribute 
that sets the width of a horizontal rule (sample 
values 25, 50) Size- An attribute that 
sets the height of a horizontal rule in pixels 
(sample values 20, 30) Color - An attribute 
that changes the lines color NOSHADE  makes a 
solid line  
 11lt!- - Comment tag allows you to place text that 
you do not wish to have appear in your Web page. 
- - gt ltFONTgt lt/FONTgt Container tags that allow 
you to change the text, with the following 
attributes
- SIZE - size of font values can be 1 - 7 or 1-7, 
 -1-7
- COLOR- Color of text values can be 1 of 16 
 colors or can be specified by RGB hexadecimal
- FACE - Font type values can be any true Type 
 font name
12Inline Images
- To insert an image into a web page 
- ltIMG SRCNameOfImage.ImageTypegt 
- Example ltIMG SRCdog.jpggt 
- GIF 
- Graphics Interchange Format 
- Most common image format found on the Internet 
- Advantage is compressed file format 
- Disadvantage is maximum color depth of only 256 
 (8 bits)
- Example is drawing.gif
- JPEG 
- Joint Photographic Experts Group 
- Advantage is maximum color depth of 16.7 million 
 (24 bits)
- Disadvantage is compression algorithm loses the 
 quality of an image
- Example is picture.jpg
13GIF vs. JPEG 
 14- Logical Character Styles 
-  ltEMgt lt/EMgt Container tags to emphasize text 
-  ltSTRONGgt lt/STRONGgt Container tags to make text 
 stand out
Lists 1. Ordered 2. Unordered 3. 
Definition
-  ltOLgt lt/OLgt Container tags around list 
-  ltLIgt Empty tag for each list item
-  ltULgt lt/ULgt Container tags around list 
-  ltLIgt Empty tag for each list item
-  ltDLgt lt/DLgt Container tags around list 
-  ltDTgt Empty tag for the term to be defined 
-  ltDDgt Empty tag for the definition
15Other attributes for IMG tags ALT - Alternate 
text that is displayed if user has turned off 
images text also appears when the mouse moves 
over the image ALIGN - can be set to right, left, 
or center aligns the image HSPACE - attribute 
that adds space to both the left and right of the 
image value is 1 - 100 pixels VSPACE - attribute 
that adds space to the top and bottom of the 
image value is 1 - 100 pixels 
 16HYPERLINKS within your document The anchor tag 
to create the hyperlink to another location ltA 
HREFSPOTgt Go to Spot lt/Agt The anchor tag to 
identify the exact location to which you want to 
link ltA NAMESPOTgt This is the Spot! 
lt/Agt (THE Red/Italicized TEXT IS WHAT YOU DECIDE 
TO CALL YOUR LINK!) 
 17Table Tags ltTABLEgt lt/TABLEgt Container tags for 
an HTML table ltTRgt lt/TRgt Container tags that 
specify a table row ltTDgt (lt/TDgt) Container tags 
(closing tag optional) that specify a table 
cell Table Attributes (These attributes can only 
be applied to an entire table!) BORDER - 
specifies a visible border and its thickness 
value range is 1 - 100 pixels BORDERCOLOR - 
specifies the color of the border WIDTH  
specifies the width of the entire table value 
can be specified in pixels or percent CELLPADDING
 - specifies the amount of spacing inside table 
cells value range is 1 - 100 pixels CELLSPACING 
- specifies the amount of spacing between table 
cells value range is 1 - 100 pixels 
 18Cell/Row Attributes (These attributes can be 
applied to a row/cell or the entire table!) ALIGN 
- Specifies the horizontal alignment of text 
within row or individual cell values are left, 
center, or right. When applied to an entire 
table, it centers the table BGCOLOR - Specifies 
the fill color for rows, cells, or the entire 
table  
 19Other HYPERLINKS To create a link to another 
Web page on your computer ltA HREFAnotherPage.ht
mgt Another Page lt/Agt To create a link to a URL 
or Web page anywhere on the WWW ltA 
HREFhttp//www.microsoft.comgt Microsoft lt/Agt 
 20To Change Colors of HYPERLINKS, use the following 
attributes of the ltBODYgt tag  LINK  specifies 
the color of the link as it first sits on 
your page. ALINK  specifies the color of an 
active link on your page VLINK  
specifies the color of a visited link on 
your page EXAMPLE ltBODY LINK  white 
ALINKcyan VLINKyellowgt CLICK! lt/BODYgt   
 21Good Morning
- 1) Login 
- 2) Make sure you have a template.html in your 
 myWork folder on your Z drive
- 3)Open your template.html file 
- 4)Do a File Save As  Days of Week 
- 5) Make a Web page that has the days of the week 
 Centered.
22Months
- 1)Open your template.html file 
- 2)Do a File Save As  Months 
- 3) Make a Web page that has the Months of the 
 year Centered. -Include a Marquee  Heading at
 top
- 4) Include the 4 seasons using ltH1gt - ltH4gt 
- BONUS Change your background and Text color 
23Good Morning day3
- 1) Login 
- 2) Finish Assignment 2 Top 10 songs 
- 3) Submit work (Will Show how to)