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<font face="Verdana"><b>Q:</b> What is HTML?<br>
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<b>A:</b> HTML stands for <b>H</b>yper <b>T</b>ext <b>M</b>arkup
<b>L</b>anguage. It is the means by which your browser (the
application running on your computer) can communicate with a
server (another computer). It happens like this. You start up the
browser-- Internet Explorer, Netscape, whatever is your
preference. Your browser sends a request to the server for
information. That request is returned in the form of a web page (a
document). The web page uses HTML to display the information (text
and images), to give the web page structure, to make it possible
to access other computers ( via links to websites), and to make it
possible to request even more information. The </font>
<a href="http://www.w3.org" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none">
World Wide Web Consortium </a><font face="Verdana">is the
authority that develops the HTML standard and other web related
standards. These standards are heavily influenced by the tags/HTML
that are produced and introduced by the makers of popular
browsers. Any number of tags/HTML may or may not be in use
depending on the version of browser. It's a good idea to review
current standards at the </font>
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World Wide Web Consortium </a><font face="Verdana">or at </font>
<a href="http://www.htmlcompendium.org" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none">
The HTML Compendium</a><font face="Verdana">.<br>
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<b>Q:</b>Where do I begin if I want to make a web page?<br>
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<b>A:</b>To begin building a web page, you'll first need an HTML
editor, like Notepad, Homesite, or Notetab Lite. Or you could use
a web authoring toollike Dreamweaver or FrontPage2000. You should
not use a word processing program like MSWord. Once you have the
right editor/tool, you can create an HTML document a.k.a. web page
by using HTML &quot;tags.&quot; <br>
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<b>Q:</b> What is an HTML document?<br>
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<b>A:</b> An HTML document is a text document. The text includes
something called &quot;tags.&quot; Each tag tells your browser what and how
to display information (both text and images). Each tag has an
element. Some tags also have an attribute with a value --
something that further defines the element. The element with it's
attribute and value are always between a &lt; and a &gt;. Most tags come
in a pair -- an opening and a closing -- like this &lt;HTML&gt; and
&lt;/HTML&gt; Note that the closing tag has a &quot;/&quot; There are a few tags
that are stand alone, like this &lt;IMG&gt;. Normally the &lt;IMG&gt; tag, a
tag that is used for images, has an attribute that tells the
browser where to find an image file. For instance, the tag &lt;IMG
SRC=&quot;images/trc120.gif&quot;&gt; tells your browser where to find the a
recip button named trc120.gif -- it's in a folder called images.<br>
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There are two main parts to an HTML document -- the &quot;head&quot; and the
&quot;body.&quot; The &quot;head&quot; of the HTML document has information that is
usually not seen on the web page but which might include
information for search engines, information about the HTML editor
or web authoring tool, information about who created the page
and/or information for the browser itself (i.e. the title is
included in the head and appears at the top of the browser
window). The &quot;body&quot; of the HTML document is what you normally see
in your browser window. The basic HTML document looks something
like this...<br>
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<font size="2" face="Verdana">&lt;HTML&gt;<br>
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&lt;HEAD&gt;<br>
&lt;TITLE&gt;The title of your web page&lt;/TITLE&gt;<br>
&lt;/HEAD&gt;<br>
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&lt;BODY&gt;<br>
All the cool stuff you want on your page goes here<br>
&lt;/BODY&gt;<br>
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&lt;/HTML&gt;<br>
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The &lt;HTML&gt; tag tells your browser this an HTML document. The
&lt;HEAD&gt; tag includes information for the browser like the &lt;TITLE&gt;
tag, which tells the browser the name of the page. The &lt;TITLE&gt; has
a closing or ending tag so that the browser doesn't mistakenly
include other words in the name of the title. Then the &lt;/HEAD&gt;
appears to end that part of the HTML document. Next comes the body
of the document. The &lt;BODY&gt; tag tells the browser this is the BODY
and this is how it will be displayed. This is what you see in your
browser window.<br>
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After all the information is shown, there is an ending or closing
tag &lt;/BODY&gt; to designate that the BODY is complete. Then there is
a closing or ending &lt;/HTML&gt; to designate the end of the HTML
document.<br>
That is the very basic document. <br>
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