Wednesday 21 March 2012

todays lesson

What is html?
•HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
•HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
•A markup language is a set of markup tags
•HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

Html tags -
•HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
•HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
•The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
•Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

There is no difference saving the files as .html or .htm
(Take out fullstops)
<.h1><./h1> = most important heading onto h6.
<.p> <./p> = paragraph
&.nbsp; = an extra space
<.ul><./ul> = unordered list/bullet points
<.ol><./ol> = ordered list/numbers
<.li><./li> = goes between each section of the list.

background colour = body.

Only really use bold and italic in style sheet, use strong or emphasise in content format.

To remember: always make sure you use doctype html5!

A site to look at - www.lipsum.com
listamatic - http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
http://www.csszengarden.com/
www.smashingmagazine.com - portfolio sections
www.cielo.net/teach

this is what i created today, the text is from lipsum.

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