Handout: Using HTML

Handout: Using HTML (HyperText Markup Language)

The file you create starts with <HTML> and ends with </HTML>.

There are two sections, a HEAD and a BODY. The language of HTML include "tags" which are enclosed in angle brackets.

Some of the starting tags require an ending tag (such as the HTML tags mentioned above). Some of the tags don't require an ending tag (such as <P> to start a new paragraph)

Use WordPad or NotePad to enter the following lines and save them on your diskette (drive A:) as text with the name index.html

After creating your page, you try it in a Browser. When you're ready, you copy it to the Server (Athena) using an FTP program, such as WS-FTP. It goes into a folder(named WWW) on your Athena account.

   

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Simple HTML Document</TITLE>
</HEAD> 





<BODY BGCOLOR="CREAM">


<CENTER>


<H1> This will display in a Browser in big, heavy letters </H1>


<HR>


<H2>This line has smaller letters</H2>


<BR>


And this line has smaller, "normal" letters


<P>


BR stands for "Line Break" and P stands for "Paragraph"


</CENTER>


</BODY>


</HTML>

Here's a link to several pages of info on "html": Yahoo search for "learn html"

Here's a link to a page on "html" that I found useful: http://home.pacific.net.sg/~alanchua/