Web Foundations/HTML Documents



This lesson introduces HTML documents.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for this lesson include:
 * Demonstrate knowledge required to create a web page.
 * Use the most current version of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML5) to create web pages.
 * Design web pages to industry standards.

Articles

 * 1)  HTML
 * 2)  HTML5
 * 3)  Character encodings in HTML
 * 4)  Website wireframe
 * 5)  W3C Markup Validation Service
 * 6)  HyperText Markup Language/Head and Body

Videos

 * 1) YouTube: HTML5 Tutorial for Beginners
 * 2) YouTube: Let's create our first HTML project and document
 * 3) YouTube: How to start an HTML5 document

Comments
Comments are to write text that will not be shown in an HTML document.

HTML
The  element is the root element of an HTML document and contains all other elements.

Head
The  element contains the processing information and metadata for an HTML document.

Title
The  element defines a document title.

Style Sheet
The  element points the browser at a style sheet to use when presenting the HTML document to the user.

Metadata
The  element can be used to specify additional metadata about a document.

Body
The  element contains the displayable content of an HTML document.

Key Vocabulary

 * 1) DOCument TYPE Declaration <!DOCTYPE>
 * 2) Html tag
 * 3) Head tag
 * 4) Body tag
 * 5) Title tag
 * 6) Meta tag
 * 7) Link tag

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorials:
 * 2) * TutorialsPoint: HTML Overview
 * 3) * TutorialsPoint: HTML Comments
 * 4) * TutorialsPoint: HTML Header
 * 5) * TutorialsPoint: HTML Meta Tags
 * 6) Using your selected HTML editor, create a basic HTML5 page.
 * 7) * Add an appropriate  to the page.
 * 8) * Include your name, such as, in the body of the page.
 * 9) Validate your HTML code using the W3C Markup Validation Service.
 * 10) Add your HTML page to your free web hosting service. Access the web page using a web browser to confirm that it displays correctly.