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Introduction |
| Welcome to the Guide to Learning HTML. On this site, we attempt to give both students and teachers a better understanding of the Internet and HTML. We hope you will find this site educational, enjoyable, and easy to use. |
| Please feel free to use the ideas or content of the pages in this site, but if you would like to use any of the images or backgrounds that appear on the pages in this site, please check our content source page to make sure they are not from somebody else's collection. |
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The Internet |
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The Internet is rapidly becoming a new source for information in the history classroom and as such can be used to enhance the educational experience of students as well as to stimulate interactive class activities using e-mail. |
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HTML |
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HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, the major language of the Internet's World Wide Web. Web Sites and Web Pages are written in HTML. HTML is a way of representing text and linking that text to other kinds of resources- including sound, graphics, and multimedia files, and so on. |
| The HTML documents themselves are plain text files (ASCII) with special "tags" or codes that a browser knows how to interpret and display on your screen. |
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| Tags |
| A tag describes something about the document. Tags are enclosed in angle brackets, like this <TAG> |
| Tags come in two varieties: single tags and pairs of tags. The difference is that a single tag occurs on its own, while a pair of tags consists of an open and closing part. The closing part is just like the opening except that it is prefixed by a slash. |
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| HTML Editor |
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There are two ways to write web pages. |
| For most people, there are software like "notepad", "wordpad", "microsoft word", "wordperfect" or "bb-edit" (for Mac users). |
| Then there are editors called "WYSIWYG", which stands for "what you see is what you get". Although they are easily to use, we strongly recommend that you learn the HTML language before working with any type of editors. |
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