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last.updated 10.23.05

Web Authoring: Learning HTML

Purpose

As Williams and Tollett, most web authors over the past five or so years have had it easy because they have a choice between various web authoring programs that allow them to see the many features of the web page as they compose it. Prior to the development of these applications, web authors had to solely use hypertext mark-up langauge (HTML) to compose their web pages. This meant that they had a learn a whole bunch of grammatical markers that told the browser how to present the web page.

Although Williams and Tollett argue that these web authoring technologies make it mostly unnecessary to learn HTML, there are many advantages (as we will discuss) to understanding how HTML works.

Before Class

• Read R. Williams's Chapter 3 (Just What Are Web Pages, Anyways?) and Chapter 4 (Things to Know Before You Begin a Web Sites)

Questions

Williams and Tollett

• What questions do you have about Williams and Tollett's description of visuals for the web?

The Infrastructure

HTML Coding

Questions

• What are the advantages to knowing HTML Code when creating a web page?
• How much do you need to know?

Tutorial

• We will work through the following tutorial on html coding. By the end of this tutorial, we will have a basic web page.