By now you would have been introduced to the Internet & the World Wide Web (frequently just called the Web) and how it has altered our lives. Nowadays we have access to wide variety of information by Web sites on the Internet. We can access any Web site if we have connection to the Internet & a browser on our computer. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator & Opera are popular browsers. While you connect to a Web site, your browser is presented along with a file in a special format through the Web server on the remote computer. The contents of the file are hold in a special format via Hyper Text Markup Language, frequently called HTML This format is, interpreted or rendered through the browser and then you see the page of the web site from your computer.
HTML is a markup language, the most general form of which is Standard Generalized Markup Language, or SGML. As SGML is complicated, HTML was invented as a simple way of developing web pages which could be easily accessed through browsers. HTML is a special case of SGML.
HTML has tags & data. The tags serve to describe what kind of data follows them, thus enabling browser to render the data in the suitable form for the user to see. There are several tags in HTML, of which the few most significant ones are introduced in this unit. Usually HTML files have the extension or ".html" or ".htm".
If you wish to create Web pages, you require a tool to write the HTML code for the page. This can be simple text editor if you are hand-coding HTML. You also contains sophisticated HTML editors obtainable that automate several (though not all) of the tasks of coding HTML. You also require a browser to be capable to render your code so that you can view the results.
After learn this unit you must be able to learn:
- fundamental concepts of HTML;
- fundamental tags of HTML;
- how to control text attributes like the font;
- how to work with images in HTML; and
- significance of Meta Tag