- World Wide Web started as a better way for researchers to share and read documents. Tim Berners Lee build something which was made up of documents and hyperlinks
- HTML – HyperTextMarkupLanguage will allow you to take a plain text document you can create using a simple text editor and organised it into lists, add links to other webpages, style it, add images and much more.
- a web browser is basically a « HTML reader »
- most of the time the content will be inside the HTML tags
- Some basics:
- how to use heading tags
- use paragraph tags for non-heading text
- HTML Style guide
- use an unordered list to display a list of things
- indent child tags to increase readability
- use an ordered list to show list items in a certain order
- add the content in between a BODY tag and the non-visible stuff in the HEAD
- set the DOCTYPE so the browser can make better decisions about how to display the page based on the version of HTML you are using
- a link is like typing a URL in the address bar only the URL is already pre-entered in HTML as part of link.
- absolute path (asks for a file from a specific server) vs. relative path (asks for a file with no server specified)
- Book to read about HTML: Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development (Expert’s Voice in Web Development)