Go To Part 1: Web Sites and Programs
Web pages are made up of HTML coding and text. They can be created in any text
editor.
A basic web page looks like this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>The Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="WHITE" TEXT="BLACK" LINK="GREEN">
The text goes here...
</BODY>
</HTML>
Often you can learn a lot about HTML by looking at the actual coding of a page.
In Internet Explorer:
Go to the View menu and choose Source.
In Netscape Navigator:
Go to the View menu and choose Document Source.
Here are some basic HTML codes:
<HTML> and </HTML>
Go at the beginning and end, respectively, of every web page.
<HEAD> and </HEAD>
Goes immediately after <HTML> and contains page title info.
<TITLE> and </TITLE>
Contains the name of the page.
<BODY> and </BODY>
Surround all text in page. The <BODY> tag also can contain
BGCOLOR="colorname" indicating the background color, TEXT="colorname"
showing the text color, and LINK="colorname" showing the color of links.
<BR>
Line break.
<P>
Paragraph break. Equal to two <BR>s.
<B> and </B>
Go at the beginning and the end of sections to be bolded.
<I> and </I>
Go at the beginning and the end of sections to be italicized.
<U> and </U>
Go at the beginning and the end of sections to be underlined.
<A HREF="http://www.whereever.com/mypage.html"> and </A>
Create links to pages. Place a page name or description between the <A HREF>
tag and the </A> tag.
<IMG SRC="mypicture.jpg" ALT="My Picture" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="250">
Inserts graphics. Place the name of the picture after SRC and a description after
ALT. Place the picture's width and height after the WIDTH and HEIGHT tags.
<FONT FACE="TAHOMA,ARIAL" SIZE="5" COLOR="RED">
Specifies the font name, the size (not in points) and the color (optional).
