Creating Your First Web Page

I read Chapter two in Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual which was about the framework of a web page. Web sites are created in HTML which is a language that converts your web site content (such as text or pictures) into viewable web pages. In this chapter I learned how to write HTML in Notepad and how to view the web documents using a browser.

First I used Internet Explorer since most people utilize this browser to explore the web. I practiced using the different types of tags. Then I tried out Firefox. Container tags are formatting instructions for the text or other elements you include within a start tag and end tag. Standalone tags do not effect formatting, instead they are used to added a single element to a page such as an image. Nesting tags are tags that are used to create more elaborate formatting; for instance being able to both bold and italicize fonts.

The common mistakes associated with writing in HTML were noted such as missing a closing tag which renders would for instance result in the formatting of text to continue throughout the document; the formatting is never turned off.

I found it interesting to change and add tags to create more sophisticated type.