Create a Web page using HTML: Covering the Basics and Bare Minimum

Editor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:32:48 +0000

This article describes how to create a web page using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). You can use the steps outlined here with a simple Web browser and Windows Notepad. However, make sure you register with HTML files. “HTML”. Notepad appends. “Txt” extension

The HTML files contain structures known as tags. Tags, text, particularly left and right hooks around like or . Note: Normally, there is no space between a colon and the text. However, the rooms will be used in this article. In this way, the tags appear as text and not executed as code from a browser.

mark the beginning of the code and HTML indicates the end. They can also add tags to add an additional structure. Generally, the “head” and then “body” are mentioned in the section between the tags. Thus, our single file can be written as .

1. Add a title to the HTML file. In general, the HTML files containing a title (Note: This is not the same as the header. “Head will be presented below in step 3). Title defines the text in the “title bar” of the browser display when you make a specific page. Titles are placed in the “head” (that is, between the header and ). For example, one could simply file contains the following titles: this is the title </ title> 2. Add content to the site. In step 1, we set the text in the title bar of the browser window appears. However, to display text in the browser window itself, we need (this text in the body section of the file In other words, between <body> and </ body>) tag. This can be done with the paragraph tag, . For example, for “HTML Web Design is an interesting area. The developer shall install a functional and useful website,” We have HTML Web Design is an interesting area. The developer is required to install a site functional and useful web in the body section. 3. Add a header. Then we add header content of the paragraph. Text header is usually larger than paragraphs of text. Use the “real” size can be defined by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Although not covered here, will be CSS in the Learning mentioned HTML – Part 3 – Basic CSS formatting “section. A header can be added to the lineup <h1>. Thus we can write the following headings : <h1> HTML Web Design </ h1> 4. See code page. In general, sites on the Internet containing the constructs above (together) with a number of other encoding functions. To see the HTML used to generate a page, go for it and the View “> Select Source” or “View>” Source option menu. Using the menu, try <title> research <h1> and tags on a page. The above are the simple steps to create a webpage with the use of notepad and browser. </article> <article> <h1>Guide to Building DHTML Menu Programs and Scripts</h1> Editor — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:04:42 +0000 DHTML Menus are the menus that are used by the site for navigation. Initially it looks like straightforward menus, but if you click on it or move the mouse over it you could be able to find the additional information pops beside or below the menu. These menus also save the place in the complicated websites, but are hard to assemble. The DHTML menu systems would help you build them or give you the program to build and maintain it by your own. Milonic DHTML Menus This DHTML system has many great features and even the pre – built menus. If you are looking to add the menu to the site then you would find the skin that is built, which would meet your requirements. Even you can also find the draggable feature to drag the menu on the screen. Even you have an option of setting the menu to remain on the screen as customer scrolls it. There are many configurable ways and options to style menu. DHTML Menu Builder This is the window application that is used to build the fancy DHTML menus for the website. It even supports in adding the JavaScript in the menu and adding the form elements to fields. It even validates links in the menu, so you can make sure that the menus are not contributing to linkrot on the site. DHTML Menu This menu system has lot of options where you can spend your time by playing with it. There is one feature called as turner, which is the desktop application in Web page or Windows for Macintosh. This turner sets the options and then delivers the JavaScript to upload to site. Dynarch Menu This menu system has many skins and features pre – built, so you need not think to build the menu. This system can also be used for the application toolbars and context menus and even more. Smart Menus This menu system offers many features such as the delay or timeout in closing and opening menus, bottom – to –top and right – to –left opening of the menus and even the feature to keep menus in the browser window. CSS Quick Menu This menu system offers many features, which would even include the tons of configuration options. It also has an online configurator that helps you to create CSS styles and scripts to build the menu in your own design. Xtreeme DHTML Menu Studio This menu system offers hundreds and thousands of pre – built skins. When the builder is specially used for Windows then you would be able to find the plugins for Expression Web, FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Cascading Popup Menus This menu system has many options that can be selected from the list and it is easy to install and use. Hier menus This menu system has no free downloads. So, here all the information would be based on the website. This menu system also offers some best features for menu system. Jim’s DHTML Menu This menu system also has many configuration options. You can even set the script to the standards complaint. </article> <article> <h1>Character Sets, Special Characters and HTML Unique Characters</h1> Editor — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:17:55 +0000 If you simply type your text into a HTML editor, structure the text with help of HTML elements and then view the entire thing in your web browser, the entered text will typically be displayed correctly. This might sound self apparent – but it isn’t. The HTML file does not include letters and the other characters you entered, but instead only bytes; that is, ones and zeros. When saving the characters, your HTML editor only needs to use a specific algorithm in order to transform the characters into bytes. The web browser must use this same method to transform the bytes back into characters, in order to correctly recognise all the characters in the HTML document. This method is known as character encryption. It has many different variations, such as for saving Western European, Cyrillic, or Arabic characters. We will address the topic of character encryption more closely in a separate chapter. Such a character encryption references a translation table, which assigns a number or code to every character that can be entered. For example, in the Latin alphabet, the letter “a” in the Unicode character table has the number 97, “b” is 98, “c” is 99, and so on. The amount of characters in such a table is known as the character set. Because countless encryptions can be used for HTML files, it is absolutely essential the browser uses the same encryption in which the HTML file was saved. You should then choose an editor where you can choose the type of encryption when saving. The HTML file should also specify which character encryption it uses or at least convey it through the web server in the HTTP answer. If such information is missing, then the HTML file is defective in terms of HTML standards. The web browser should not have to “guess” which character encryption is being used. Nevertheless, web browsers are especially tolerant in this aspect and typically fall back on their preinstalled encryptions. ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), the codification for West European countries, will likely be set as the default by your browser. The editor you use will probably also save files in ISO 8859-1, so it seems as if there is no problem. However, it might come to pass that people from Asia, Eastern Europe, or elsewhere with different character encryptions, will visit your website. If these people use their own character encryption to read a HTML file in a different encryption, then the result will be an incoherent and garbled mess. Therefore, HTML gives you the opportunity to tell the browser which character codification you happen to be using. In the heading, within the so-called meta tag, you can provide information on the character encryption. Providing such information is definitely recommended, because it makes it easier for the browser to decide how the bytes from the HTML file should be transferred into characters. Then it is up to the browser to show the characters in such a way as was intended, to a visitor from Asia, for example. The prevalent ISO encryptions work with a character set of 256 characters. This has the advantage of always displaying a character with exactly one byte. With such encryptions only 256 different characters can be saved. Nevertheless, the character set of HTML – by which we mean the amount of usable characters, independent of how they are saved – is not limited by the encryption being used. All characters from Unicode can fundamentally be used in a HTML document. Advanced encryption, such as UTF-8, can directly encode all the Unicode characters into bytes. If you want to enter specific characters into the text, that aren’t included in the character set of the encryption you are using, then you can choose between two possibilities: either use a special numerical notation. Or use so-called labelled characters that HTML makes available for frequently used special characters. You should occupy yourself with the HTML character reference table to find out more about both possibilities. Masking HTML specific characters If you happen to use characters in your text that have a certain meaning in HTML, then you have to mask them. The following characters have to be masked as follows: Replace & with & Replace < with < Replace > with > Replace ” with " Take Note: The most dangerous is the left arrow (<). If you don’t mask this character, then you can throw the web browser into a lot of confusion, as it believes it is following a HTML tag. Failing to mask the other characters has much tamer consequences, although it is still recommendable. </article> </main></body></html>

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Create a Web page using HTML: Covering the Basics and Bare Minimum