1 / 12

Powerpoint Templates

Let’s Build a Website by Sybil Prince Nelson. Powerpoint Templates. Basics. What is HTML? HTML is the language used to create web pages. It tells your browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) what to display on a web page. What does HTML stand for?

anisa
Download Presentation

Powerpoint Templates

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Let’s Build a Website by Sybil Prince Nelson Powerpoint Templates

  2. Basics What is HTML? HTML is the language used to create web pages. It tells your browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) what to display on a web page. What does HTML stand for? HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. HypertextText with links to other pages. Can contain images and other things. Basically, a web page.Markup LanguageThe set of instructions that describe how text should be displayed. For HTML, these instructions are called tags.HTML = HyperText Markup Language = The tags that tell your browser what to display on a web page. How Does HTML Work? In an HTML tutorial for beginners it's all about the tags. Browsers, like Internet Explorer or Firefox, are used to display web pages. Tags tell your browser what to display on a web page. This is the HTML tag: <html> It's the main tag. It says, "Everthing after this is a web page." There are beginning and ending tags. They come in pairs: <html> </html> Your browser understands this. Your browser doesn't display tags. It displays only what is between the tags.

  3. A Basic Webpage <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html><body><h1>This is a heading</h1><p>This is the paragraph text. This is more paragraph text. This is more paragraph text. </p></body></html>

  4. Let’s get a little fancier HTML Elements Most HTML elements have these four parts: A starting tagExample: <p> An ending tagExample: </p> The content between the starting and ending tagsExample: "Once upon a time a girl with… etc." Attributes (more about attributes in the next section)Example: style="background-color:yellow" Here's an example of an HTML element: <p style="background-color:yellow">Once upon a time a girl with beautiful long golden hair… etc.</p> By the way… there are a few elements that only have one tag. For example: The <br /> element causes the browser to skip to the next line. It's the "line break" tag. There are no contents or ending tag for these types of elements.

  5. Still getting fancy HTML Attributes A HTML element can have attributes. An attribute gives more information about the contents of an element to the browser. Think of an attribute as quality or characteristic of the element. The attribute of an element is located in the starting tag. <p style="background-color:yellow">blah blah blah.</p> This particular style attribute tells the browser to make the background color of that paragraph yellow. If you know your HTML basics it will be much easier for you to learn what you need to know in order to build your website. If you are going to be creating websites for a while (there's a good chance you will be) tags, elements and attributes are things you want to be clear on.

  6. Let’s try it A friendly tool.

  7. Ways to Build a Website • There are several ways to build a website: • Point and click software (fast, not flexible). • Manually writing the HTML (important to learn, requires time). – notepad, word, powerpoint • Using an HTML Editor (efficient once learned, HTML knowledge helps). • Using a template (easy, efficient, must use HTML)

  8. Some helpful html language Email: HTML Code: <a href= "mailto:abc@mail.com" >Email Example</a> Images: HTML Code: <img src=“picturename.gif" /> Important: Where is this picture? Src stands for source. There are two ways to define the source of an image. First you may use a standard URL. (src=http://www.Tizag.com/pics/htmlT/pitcurename.gif) As your second choice, you may copy or upload the file onto your web server and access it locally using standard directory tree methods. (src="../picturename.gif") The location of this picture file is in relation to your location of your .html file. For more info on images: http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/images.php

  9. Your MUSC space • Step 1 My computer < Map Network Drive • Step 2 Enter \\homeroom.musc.edu\netID • Step 3 For user name enter clinlan\netID

  10. Let’s Try it! Step 1 Create a folder called public_html in your MUSC space Step 2 Create an html file called index within your public folder Step 3 Your main page is this index file. Start writing on your index file. Create links to other pages on your site. Step 4 You can also download a template from www.freewebsitetemplates.com

  11. How to design your site • Think about the function of your site • Go for simplicity as opposed to clutter • Avoid text fonts smaller than 11px • Keep a consistent layout • Every few edits, check your progress

  12. Assignment Create a website that includes the following: • Name • Picture • A short bio • Personal/contact info • Current classes • Research interests • CV Email me a link to your website

More Related