• Computers are blindingly stupid
• Computers are blindly obedient
• They only do what they are told
• They do only what they are told
• Web page design language lets you make mistakes and correct them without damaging your computer

• HTML = HyperText Markup Language
• Puts "Tags" in a regular typed document to tell the computer what to print and how to print it out on the screen but ...
• The tags don’t show

Some Tags
Tags usually come in pairs. They say start & stop.

• an optional tag

Match the tags above. Match the start: with the stop: .Note these are not in the right order for a web page. The next list is.

Let’s look at what the HTML tags do!

<><>

	tells the computer this is a web page
	starts the head - identification info - for the document
	the title ends here
	the heading of the page stops here
	the stuff that appears on the viewer's computer screen - your web page - starts here
	a heading. H1 = big heading. Numero uno.
	end of the big type in the heading
	starts a new paragraph after skipping a line
	what follows will be a list (unnumbered)
	a List Item
	the end of the list item
	another List Item
	the end of this list item how many list items can you have?
	the end of the Unnumbered List
	the end of the paragraph - an optional tag
	the end of the screen page - it can be really long!
	the end of the web page

Now go over to Class Session 1 and then come back here!

Need an easier way to do it?

Don't like all that typing? Not sure you put the tags in the right places? Go to the Cookie Cutter and cut out most of the typing and use this short cut to your web pages!

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Avoid Becoming Roadkill
on the Information Superhighway

• Uh-oh! My Webpage Looks Funny!
• It is all HUGE TYPE
• Everyone makes mistakes. Now you need to correct yours. The most common problem is a tag that you forgot to put in. Look where the problem started.
• There will be a tag before the place where the problem starts. There the large type starts. Probably it is a heading tag - like H1

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• If you forget to put the stop H1 heading tag , the computer will put the whole page in H1 type until it comes to the end of the page (or you give it another heading command).
• Find the place where the missing tag should be and type it in. Save the file and reload the page.
• The missing thing may be a quotation mark in the image or link description. Or there may be an extra < or > character.

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Further study

• Check Yahoo or another search tool - computer programming languages html
• http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/
• Get a book from the library
• Practice with other computers
• copy the SOURCE of a page you like and modify it for your own uses
  BUT WATCH OUT FOR THE COMPLICATED ONES - PICK A SIMPLE ONE!
• Come back!

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