With your page’s content in place, you can add hyperlinks to other web pages and web sites, and add tags to describe the page’s contents to search engines.You may also want to reload a web page automatically to keep it fresh, or redirect the browser to another web page.
Add a Hyperlink
Ahyperlink is a link in [...]
Add Content to the Page (part 4)
Apply Formatting
HTML lets you apply formatting in several ways. The most basic way is by applying direct formatting to the text that needs it. This is an old-style formatting technique that is “deprecated” in both current HTML standards and the forthcoming HTML 5 standard. (“Deprecated” here means the standardssetting [...]
Add Content to the Page (part 3)
ADD A LINE BREAK
Most browsers accept only one paragraph tag at a time, figuring that multiple <p> tags in sequence are an error. To put space between paragraphs, use a linebreak tag, <br />, instead of multiple <p> tags.
1. Add a <br /> tag before “virtualized” in the first [...]
Add Content to the Page (part 2)
ADD A HEADING
Add a level-1 (top-level) heading to your web page by entering the heading text inside <h1> and </h1> tags within the body section (between the <body> and </body> tags). For example:
<body>
<h1>Welcome to Acme Virtual Industries!</h1>
</body>
Save the web page (click the File menu and then click Save)
ADD TEXT [...]
Add Content to the Page (part 1)
After creating the structure for the web page, add content to it, as described in this section.
ADD THE TITLE FOR THE PAGE
Most web pages begin with a title—the text that appears in the browser’s title bar when the web page is loaded, and that is used as the default [...]
Add Header and Body Tags
The header of an HTML web page starts with a <head> tag and ends with a
</head> tag. Similarly, the body starts with a <body> tag and ends with a
</body> tag. Type these into your web page between the existing <html> and
</html> tags:
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
The elements that make up the header go between the [...]
To get started with your website, you’ll need to create a folder to contain in, and then open Notepad or another text editor to create files.
Create a Folder for Your Website
You will typically store your website on your local computer while you create it and then transfer it to a web server when it is [...]
At this writing, the most sensible approach is to create your web pages using the “transitional” version of XHTML. This allows you some flexibility in creating your HTML code while keeping it more or less within a straitjacket of proper form that will let you move it easily to the HTML 5 standard when it [...]
Part of what makes creating web pages confusing is the number of technologies you can use. HTML is the general, overarching technology—but then there are XML, XHTML, and HTML 5.
Here are some key definitions to get things straight from the start.
HTML
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the formatting language in which web pages have been written [...]
