The Guide to HTML
Part 1
Menu:
1. Opening notepad
2. Making a basic HTML page
3. How to save a HTML Page
4. How to open and view your page
5. Using HTML tags
6. Adding a heading
7. How to view changes
8. Line Break tag
9. More useful HTML tags
10. Adding hyperlinks
Activity!
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Create a Web Page using HTML.
Use NOTEPAD to do this.
Add some content with formatting.
Give it a title and use headings.
Add working hyperlinks.
Save file with correct extension.
Where do we start?
Open Notepad:
Windows Button All Programs Accessories Notepad
Open your Web Design folder
KEEP BOTH OF THESE OPEN!
Now Lets Make Our First Web Page!
Type the text you can see in the blue box on the next slide
into NOTEPAD (COPY THE TEXT EXACTLY!)
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Basic Page
<html>
<body>
Search Engines
</body>
</html>
This will display the words Search Engines on the web
page.
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How to save your web page
In order to turn your Text file into a HTML file you MUST
follow these instructions EXACTLY
In Notepad:
File Save As
Name your Web Page as Search Engines.htm
Save the file in your Web Design Folder.
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How to open and view your web
pages
Browse to your Web Design folder.
Look for your Search Engines.htm file. The file should look
like this:
Double Click your Web Page to open.
Keep Web Page open for next task.
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Using Tags
Tags are used to tell Web Browser how to display text and
images
Tags are indicated by using < and >
Tags almost always work in pairs Start Tag and End Tag
Start tag example = <H1>
End tag example = </H1>
Tags indicate to the Browser how to display the
text sitting between the start and end Tags
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Adding a Heading to your page
Open your Search Engines.htm in Notepad.
(Right Click Search Engines file Open With Notepad).
This will open up your HTML Text File.
Enter the text you can see in the blue box on the next slide.
DO NOT enter the same text again --- just add anything you
can see which is new. (New Items are Coloured Red)
Save your file.
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Heading Tag
<html>
<body>
<H1>Search Engines</H1>
</body>
</html>
The <h1> tag sets text as a heading in style 1.
Valid tags are <h1>; <h2>; <h3>; <h4>; <h5>; <h6>.
What effect does changing the number have?
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How to view changes you make
You can view changes you make to the HTML file in 2 ways:
1. Browse to the Search Engines file and double click it
2. Click the Refresh button in the Browser
Both of these methods will load up your updated Web Page.
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Line Break Tag
<html>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
Yahoo<br>
Line Break Tags
Excite<br>
Google<br>
<br> creates a line break
</body>
<p> and </p> can be used to
begin and end a paragraph
</html>
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More Useful Tags
Tag to make text Font Bold:
<B> Hello </B>
Tag to make text Font Italic:
<I> Hello </I>
Tag to make text Font Underline:
<U> Hello </U>
Task!
Bold, Italic and Underline search engine names on
your web page (One of each)
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Hyperlink Tags
<html>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
<B><a href="http://www.yahoo.co.uk"> Yahoo</a></B><br>
<I>Excite</I><br>
<U>Google</U><br> The URL of a hyperlink must be
</body>
enclosed in quotation marks
</html>
(Shift + 2)
Task!
Add the hyperlinks for Excite and Google.
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Remember how to save and view
your notepad HTML web page
File Save As.
File name should be Search Engines.htm.
Save file in Web Design folder.
Open the web file which should look like:
Refresh button can be used to view any changes you make
to the web page.
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Search Engines HTML Example
At this stage, your Search
Engine HTML web page
should look like this:
The HTML code
should look like this:
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