Creating a Web Page Using HTML

Lesson 1 : Basic HTML

What is HTML and its History?
       Web pages are created using HTML (Hypertext Mark -up Language) which is the language used to create documents on the web.
       HTML uses a set of special instructions called TAGS or MARK-UP .

HTML Elements
     The HTML code is made up of characters that live inside angled brackets - these are called HTML elements. Elements are usually made up of two tags: an opening and closing tag. (The closing tag has a forward slash in it).

HTML Attributes 
     Attributes provide additional information about the contents of an element. They appear on the opening tag of the element and are made up of two parts: a name and a value, separated by an equal sign.

HTML Versions
       HTML 1.0 (1989-1994)
       HTML 2.0 (1995)
       HTML 3.20 (1997)
       HTML 4.01 (1999)
       HTML 5





Lesson 2: Entering HTML Tags

Notepad start up
To create your first web page on a PC, start-up Notepad. You can find this by going to:
1. Start
2. All programs (or programs)
3. Accessories
4. Notepad

Saving your Web Page
Go to the File menu and select Save as. You will need to save the file somewhere you can remember.
To save your web page:
1. Once you have created your web page, choose File > Save as from your notepad.
2. In the dialog box that appears, choose Plain Text or Text Document for the Format.
3. Give the document the .htm or .html extension.
4. Choose the folder in which to save the web page.
5. Click Save, then you will see an Html document. 



Lesson 3: Basic HTML Formatting

Lesson 4: Images

Common types of image format
JPEG
       JPEG is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and is the most popular among the image formats used on the web. JPEG files are very 'lossy', meaning so much information is lost from the original image when you save it in JPEG file.

GIF
       GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format, is limited to the 8-bit palette with only 256 colors. GIF is still popular image format on the internet because image size is relatively small compared to other image compression types.

BMP
       The Windows Bitmap or BMP files are image files within the Microsoft Windows operating system.

PNG
       PNGs, or Portable Network Graphics, were created as an alternative to the GIF file format, when the GIF technology was copyrighted and required permission to use.

TIFF
       TIFF was created by Aldus for 'desktop publishing'. and by 2009 it was transferred to the control of Adobe Systems.