Hyper Text Markup Language
Notepad or Wordpad (PC) or SimpleText (Mac)
First tag: <html>
Indicates that you are starting
an HTML document
Last tag: </html>
Indicates that you are ending an HTML document
*Note* the open & close structure
to HTML
Fictional example: <sleep> and </sleep>
Save file as “index.html”
This is a typical default title for home pages
Windows may seem to prefer “.htm” but “.html” will also work just fine.
<html>
</html>
Header information
<head> to begin, and </head> to end
Gives information about the page that is not displayed on the page itself
Page Title
<title> to begin, and </title> to end
Example: <title>Transcriptions Studio</title>
*Note* that there are no spaces between “<title> and “Transcriptions”, nor between
“Studio” and “</title>
Challenge: How would you place title information in your page’s header information?
Web authoring software language
Specifically created to make World Wide Web pages
Created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 from SGM
Creating an HTML file
First tag: <html>
Last tag: </html>
Indicates that you are ending an HTML document
Save file as “index.html”
This is a typical default title for home pages
Windows may seem to prefer “.htm” but “.html” will also work just fine.
<html>
</html>
Header information
<head> to begin, and </head> to end
Gives information about the page that is not displayed on the page itself
Page Title
<title> to begin, and </title> to end
Example: <title>Transcriptions Studio</title>
*Note* that there are no spaces between “<title> and “Transcriptions”, nor between
“Studio” and “</title>
Challenge: How would you place title information in your page’s header information?
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