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Draft of Codding "The THAKURGAON" My first web page What this is? A simple page put together using HTML Why this is? To learn HTML Where to find the tutorial? Be careful. It is important that the extension "___.html" is specified - some text editors, such as Notepad, will automatically save it as "___.txt” otherwise.

You also need to ensure that your file is being saved as plain text. Text-edit, for example, will start new files as “Rich text”, containing lots of formatting extras, by default. In such cases, go into the preferences and make sure you check the “Plain text” format option before creating a new file. '''Understood! Let's keep codding... ... ''' Why hand-code HTML? Because learning how to use HTML properly will make you a better web designer! Sure you can create a web page using DreamWeaver and Bluefish or other WYSIWYG editors. In fact, you might be thinking "I can already create web pages and I don't know much HTML at all!" – of course you can! But in a certain sense, you can't, because you don't know the essence of what you're doing.

Creating HTML pages using Adobe DreamWeaver is kind-of like delivering a speech through a translator: although you might know exactly what you want to communicate, you can't always control the end result... Why? Because your thoughts and ideas have been translated by someone else (in this case, Dreamweaver)! In the ideal situation we would translate our thoughts ourselves... but to do so, we need to learn the language (in our case, HTML and CSS). Learning the language might be difficult compared to getting a friend to do the translation on your behalf. But it's much more rewarding to do that yourself, right? A short history of Mark-up and the WWW: Part 1 - In the beginning... The Internet and email have both been around for some time now. The initial Internet was actually developed by the US military as a means of communication that was impossible to break! It was thought that if there were thousands of communication points (rather than just a few transmitters) then it would be possible to transmit a message even when many communication points had been destroyed. No-one imagined that the Internet would become a house-hold tool for many people throughout the world! Part 2 – The World-Wide-Web Until 1989, the Internet was primarily used by computer geeks who knew all the required tools and commands. But everything changed when Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN nuclear research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, introduced Hypertext documents. Hypertext documents made it very simple to follow links to related information, regardless of which country the information is stored in – all that was required was a single click of the mouse! Yet these links also had an implication for the way people would read the information...

 A short history of Mark-up A short history of Mark-up A short history of Mark-up and the WWW: Part 1 - In the beginning... The Internet and email have both been around for some time now. The initial Internet was actually developed by the US military as a means of communication that was impossible to break! It was thought that if there were thousands of communication points (rather than just a few transmitters) then it would be possible to transmit a message even when many communication points had been destroyed. No-one imagined that the Internet would become a house-hold tool for many people throughout the world! Part 2 – The World-Wide-Web Until 1989, the Internet was primarily used by computer geeks who knew all the required tools and commands. But everything changed when Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN nuclear research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, introduced Hypertext documents. Hypertext documents made it very simple to follow links to related information, regardless of which country the information is stored in – all that was required was a single click of the mouse! Yet these links also had an implication for the way people would read the information... HTML-"tag's"  Nesting Tags HTML Tags should be nested. When you have text in bold and in italics, the " " and the " " should go around each other like Russian dolls. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt; tag's make "fine" is fine" Line breaks and horizontal rules Browsers ignore single line breaks, so the following: This is HTML Would still render as: This is HTML However, if you use a line break, you can force a new line to occur whenever you want. Take the following code: This is

HTML Which would render as: This is HTML

Another (less common) formatting tag is the horizontal rule, which will produce a line across the page. A horizontal rule is as simple as this:

Which produces the following:

You can also alter the size of the line, like this:



Which will make a smaller line: Color can also be added to the tag. Use the color atribute . Used along with the size atribute for thickness, and defined by pixel size, this renders a nice red horizontal rule across the page.