mAkE a WeBsiTE (PART 1)

PART 1

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) :

• Simple programming language;
• To tell a Web browser (eg: mozilla, google chrome, IE) how a Web page should look on-screen.
• Is composed of elements.

Elements :

• A paragraph or an image, etc
• Are composed of tags, attributes,and sometimes content.

Tags:

• A straightforward descriptive term
  
• Tells a Web browser what element it’s dealing with.

The start tag :

• It is the beginning of each element by the name of that element within angle braces (bracket).
  
• The start tag for a paragraph is .
  
• The start tag for an image is .

The end tag :

• It is the end of an element.
• Just like the start tag except that the end tag has a slash before the element’s name.
• The end tag for a paragraph is .
  
• However, some elements, such as , don’t have an end tag.

Attributes:

• An attribute is an adjustment of the basic element.
• Example : You specify the width and height of an image.
• By adding attributes to the tag, as in the following example:

Content:

• Content is anything that goes between the start tag and the end tag
• Example:

Reference : Building A Web Site For Dummies