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With this Learn HTML tutorial you will learn basic HTML code including:
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Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three

Section 1 - Introduction

  • Programs needed:
  • Graphical Web browser
  • Text editor
  • Create folder
  • History of the Internet
  • World Wide Web
  • SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) defined
  • HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) defined
  • Advantages of HTML:
  • Cross-platform language
  • Can be written with any text editing program
  • Ability to hyperlink documents
  • Hyperlink defined

Section 2 - How the Internet Works

  • TCP/IC (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) defined
  • IP addresses
  • Domain name
  • World Wide Web consortium
  • Search engines
  • Keep it simple
  • Setting user preferences
  • Viewing source codes
  • Browser caching
  • Temporary storage on computer
  • Refresh or reload button

Section 3 - Coding Your First Page

  • Opening Notepad program
  • HTML tag defined
  • Open and close angle brackets
  • Not case sensitive
  • Head tag
  • Title tag
  • HTML tags and page content
  • Forward slash character for closing tag
  • Saving files in notepad as HTML file
  • Viewing page in browser
  • Body tag
  • Alt + Tab opens application switcher
  • White space defined
  • BR (bracket) tag
  • PR (Paragraph) tag
  • Standalone tags
  • Attributes and values imbedded in tags
  • Attributes and values defined
  • BG color tag
  • Text tag
  • F5 key = Refresh

Section 4 - Formatting Text with HTML

  • Setting Font tag
  • Header tag
  • Order of closing tags
  • H1 (heading) tags defined
  • Font Size tag
  • Bold tag
  • Setting absolute font sizes
  • Correcting font errors

Section 5 - Advanced Text Formatting

  • Block Quote tag
  • Copying and pasting codes
  • Italics tag
  • Creating ordered list
  • List using numbers or bullets
  • Adding attribute to ordered list

Section 6 - Hyperlinking Basics

  • Code for making e-mail a link
  • HREF (hypertext reference) defined
  • Coloring for clicked links
  • Adding named anchors
  • Pipe character in named anchors
  • Editing named anchors
  • Creating links to the top and bottom of page
  • Editing internal links
  • Status bar
  • Linking between two documents
  • Creating link to another folder
  • Creating folder structure for HTML
  • Pages
  • Images
  • Thumbnails

Section 7 - More Hyperlinking

  • Changing hyperlink colors
  • Active links
  • Open new Notepad file
  • Saving Notepad file
  • Creating link to Internet page
  • Absolute link defined
  • HTTP protocol
  • Correcting errors
  • Adding Target Attribute tags

Section 8 - HTML Table Basics

  • Table tag
  • Ways of using tables
  • Determining the size of tables
  • Pixel size
  • Percentage
  • Border tag
  • Table Row tag < tr >
  • Table Data tag < td >
  • Editing table borders

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Color on the Web

  • History of color on monitors
  • Displaying colors proper
  • Differing color palettes
  • Web-safe palette defined
  • RGB color system
  • Hexadecimal system
  • Hexadecimal coloring defined
  • Using common names for color
  • Defining colors using Hex codes
  • Selecting colors from web page codes
  • Deciding on color designs

Section 3 - Understanding Web Graphics

  • Image formats
  • JPEG
  • GIF
  • PNG
  • JPEG and GIF defined
  • Deciding which format to use for graphics
  • Advantages of different graphic formats
  • Inserting images into a web page
  • Image tag
  • Resizing images

Section 4 -All About Image Attributes

  • Width and height attributes
  • Preferences setting to not show images
  • Hiding images
  • Displaying the Alt tag
  • Using tables to control where images appear
  • Nonbreaking Space tag
  • Adding vertical and horizontal space around images
  • Adding hyperlink border and pointing finger
  • Images listed in status bar

Section 5 - Optimizing Images for the Web

  • Issues to consider to display images
  • Speed of download
  • Weight of the images
  • Reducing weight of images
  • Using a graphics program to resize images
  • Resolution of images
  • Using the proper format of images
  • Number of colors that can be displayed in JPEG and GIF
  • Reducing colors in GIF format
  • Compressing images
  • Image optimization

Section 6 - Formatting a Page with Tables

  • Nesting columns
  • Organize information into table
  • Column Span tag
  • Deleting a column in table
  • Image Source tag
  • Add images to columns
  • Centering images in table
  • Editing tables

Section 7 - Advanced Table Layout

  • Vertical alignment in cells
  • Control cell spacing in the tables
  • Cell Padding Value tag
  • Turning Off Borders tag
  • Changing margin attribute
  • Including browser information for both Internet Explorer® and Netscape®

Section 8 - Linking with Image Maps

  • Image map defined
  • Defining hotspots
  • My Map tag
  • Adding coordinate attributes to create a hotspot
  • Coding shapes for hotspots
  • Circular Attributes tag
  • Polygon Attribute tag

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - HTML forms

  • HTML forms defined
  • Adding title for form page
  • Tags needed for forms
  • Adding form elements
  • Text Input Box Attribute tag
  • Select element defined
  • Setting up options using select element
  • Setting up radio buttons
  • Nesting table within a cell

Section 3 - Advanced Form Elements

  • Horizontal Rule tag
  • Adding Check boxes tag
  • Setting up a text area in a form
  • Editing input boxes
  • Setting a limit of character to a box

Section 4 - Activating the Form

  • Adding Submit and Reset button to form
  • Common Gateway Interface (CGI scripts) defined
  • Adding Method Attribute tag
  • Using post and get attribute
  • Action attribute
  • Testing form
  • Showing thank you page and e-mail

Section 5 - Frames

  • HTML frames defined
  • Using frames for consistent navigation
  • Editing frame borders and scroll bars
  • Hiding frame borders
  • Adding references to frames

Section 6 - Cascading Style Sheets

  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) defined
  • Class tag
  • Custom class style defined
  • Create link to external style sheet
  • Adding style sheet to a table
  • Editing style sheets
  • Applying style sheets to buttons

Section 7 - Embedded and Inline Styles

  • Embedded style defined
  • Embedding the style within code
  • Inline style defined
  • One style taking precedence over another
  • Rules of inline and embedded styles
  • Applying CSS to visited and unvisited hyperlinks

Section 8 - Publishing Your Site

  • Testing paths and links
  • Meta tags defined
  • Adding keywords to meta tags
  • Adding description to meta tag
  • Uploading files to Web service
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP ) defined
  • Information from your provider
  • Type of file
  • User name and password
  • Registering site with search engines
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