Basic HTML Mark-up Syntax
All web sites are made of HTML at the most basic level. You should be aware of this, although I don't expect that you would actually write your web site in HTML. Here I will go into some basics of HTML. Again, this is just to make you aware of it and, hopefully, not to scare you. You may need to access the HTML source code for your web site when you add in certain bells and whistles, such as video or calendars. However it shouldn't anything more than just copy & paste.
In HTML, you will have a beginning tag (such as <h1>) and an ending tag (such as </h1> or in some cases /> or >). Check out my
HTML Example.
<! --- Comments can go here --->
<a href=”./otherpage.html> You can link to another page within your directory.</a>
<a href=”http://www.google.com”> Or you can link to an external web page. </a>
<b> You can make things bold. </b>
<body> Starts the main body of the your page. </body>
<br /> Creates a single line break.
<h1> Heading One </h1>
<h2> Heading Two </h2>
<h3> Heading Three </h3>
<h4> Heading Four </h4>
<head> Header section of your web page. </head>
<hr /> Creates a horizontal rule across your page.
<i> Puts text in italic. </i>
<img src=”./mypicture.jpg”/> This is one way of putting your image on the web page.
<ol>
<li> first numbered item in the ordered list </li>
<li> next numbered item in the ordered list </li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li> first bullet item in the unordered list </li>
<li> next bullet item in the unordered list </li>
</ul>
<p> Starts the beginning of a new section or paragraph. </p>
<table>
<tr>
<th> First Column Header </th>
<th> Second Column Header </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> row 1, cell 1 </td>
<td> row 1, cell 2 </td></tr>
<tr>
<td> row 2, cell 1 </td>
<td> row 2, cell 2 </td></tr>
</table>
<title> Puts your web page title at the top of the browser window. </title>
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