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Writing HTML

/ June 2000 / version 4.5.2 / version history /

About this

Tutorial

W RITING HTML WAS CREATED to help teachers create

learning resources that access information on the Internet. Here,

you will be writing a lesson called Volcano Web . However, this

tutorial may be used by anyone who wants to create web pages.

You can get a sense of the results by looking at our illustrious

alumni and kudos or what people say about the tutorial.

We created this

tutorial way back in

1994, when the

web was young.

By the time you have reached the end of this tutorial you will be

able to construct a series of linked web pages for any subject that

includes formatted text, pictures, and hypertext links to other

web pages on the Internet. If you follow the steps for the Basic

Level (lessons 1-14) you will develop a page about volcanoes

and if you go on to the Advanced Level (lessons 15-29), you will

create an enhanced volcano web site .

For faster performance, you can download an archive of all files

used in this tutorial. Most of the lessons can be done off-line. If

you are having trouble connecting to this site, try our

experimental servers, Jade or Zircon but please be nice to these

machines; they are doing other work for us.

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Why

Create

Web

Pages?

T HE WEB IS BECOMING AN INTEGRAL PART of our

working (and playing) world. You cannot spit anymore these

days without hitting a URL (if you do not know what a URL is,

you will find out here). In a very short time span, the web has

revolutionized the way we access information, education,

business, entertainment. It has created industries where there

were none before.

If you've come this

far, you likely have

an answer.

Being able to develop information on the web might be a job

skill, a class requirement, a business necessity, or a personal

interest. Unlike any other previous medium, the ability to "write"

HTML allows you to potentially connect with millions of other

people, as your own self-publisher.

Objectives

I N THESE LESSONS YOU WILL:

This tutorial covers

the steps for

writing HTML files

using illustrative

examples for

creating web

pages.

l identify and use different HTML formatting codes.

create and modify HTML documents using a simple text

editor.

l write a series of web pages that present information,

graphics, and provide hypertext links to other documents

on the Internet.

And maybe you will have some fun!

What

HTML?

P UT MOST SIMPLY, HTML , is a format that tells a

computer how to display a web page. The documents themselves

are plain text files (ASCII) with special "tags" or codes that a

web browser knows how to interpret and display on your screen.

H yper T ext M arkup

L anguage

This tutorial teaches you how to create web pages the old-

fashioned way -- by hand. There are software "tools" that allow

you to spin web pages without touching any HTML. But if you

are serious about doing more than a page or two, we believe a

grounding in the basics will greatly accelerate what you can do.

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Everything you create in this tutorial is designed to run from any

desktop computer; it does not depend on access to a web server

or specialized computer programming.

Getting

Ready

Y OU WILL ALSO NEED A TEXT EDITOR PROGRAM

capable of creating plain text files e.g. SimpleText for the

Macintosh or NotePad for Windows. We strongly urge that you

use the most basic text editor while you learn HTML and then

later you can explore HTML "editors" If you use a word

processor program then you must save your files as plain ASCII

text format. You should also be familiar with switching between

multiple applications as well as using the mouse to copy and

paste selections of text.

We will assume you

have a basic

knowledge of how

to use your web

browser menus,

buttons, and

hypertext links.

If you download the tutorial files, you can do nearly all of the

lessons off-line.

We suggest that you proceed through the lessons in order, but at

any time you can return to the index to jump to a different

lesson. Within each lesson you can compare your work to a

sample file for that lesson. Each lesson page has a link to a

concise summary of the tags as well as links to other reference

sites.

For convention, all menu names and items will be shown in bold

text. All text that you should enter from the keyboard will appear

in typewriter style.

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Keep in

Mind

a. Use the Favorites or Bookmark feature of your web

browser to mark the lesson index page so you can easily

navigate to other lessons.

b. We've aimed to write instructions generic to (almost) any

web browser; sometimes the menu names or features may

not match the web browser you are using.

c. This tutorial will show you how to create web pages that

can see outward to the world. It will not tell you how to

let the world see them; to do this you need to locate an

Internet Service Provider that provides web server space.

Try http://thelist.internet.com/ or

http://www.webisplist.com/ . Also, you can search for a

free web page hosting service from Freewebspace.net

d. Creating pages is one thing, designing web sites is

another. We cannot highly enough recommend the Yale

C/aIM WWW Style Manual . Sun Microsystem's Guide to

Web Style , and the Sevloid Guide to Web Design .

e. When you are ready for the big time, see web pages like

you have never seen web pages at Dave Siegel's Casbah

and High Five sites. Trudge on over to his Web Wonk to

get the details. It will amaze you.

f. Refer to the HTML tag summary page as a reference.

You can get to it by following the hypertext link at the

top of every lesson page.

g. If you are having trouble, see the Writing HTML FAQ

(Frequently Asked Questions) before writing us for help.

We get lots and lots of e-mail. Too much.

Some pointers to

help you out, since

we will never admit

knowing

everything.

Who Did

This?

T HIS IS A PROJECT of the Maricopa Center for Learning

and Instruction (MCLI). Writing HTML was developed by Alan

Levine , instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community

Colleges . Our former intern, Tom Super, provided invaluable

instructional design support. Many others have given helpful

suggestions, corrected typos, and expressed their thanks!

Roll the credits!

Once your web pages become available on the Internet, please

list them on our Writing HTML Alumni page using our

registration form.

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Thanks to some great volunteer efforts, Writing HTML is also

available in other languages:

Spanish / Español v3.0 (thanks to Arturo García Martín

and Andrés Valencia)

l Icelandic / Íslenska "Námsefnisgerð í HTML" v 4.5.2

(thanks to Gudjon Olafsson)

l Korean v4.5 (thanks to Dr. Byeong choon Lim,

Department of Computer Education Chuncheon National

University of Education)

l Italian "Corso di HTML" v4.5.1 (thanks to Cristiana

Cavicchi)

l Japanese v 4.0.` (thanks to kazuaki mizota )

Or you can try the online translation tools from AltaVista's

Babelfish:

Time to

Get

Started!

I F YOU ARE READY, go to the index of lessons or go

directly to the first lesson .

h a p p y w e b b i n g

And have fun.

Writing HTML

Maricopa Community Colleges

The 'net connection at MCLI is Alan Levine

Questions? Comments? Visit our feedback center

URL: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

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