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HTML & CSS
When you begin to learn html it can be a mindfield. To get started its best to go straight into code view in Dreamweaver, or even better, use a simple text editor like Notepad or TextEdit.
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, (the X stands for Extensible - covered in another tutorial) which is the language of the world wide web. Web pages are written in HTML and it allows images, text, sound, movies, and links to be brought together.
HTML files are essentially just text files, with instructions of how to display the content (text, images etc). These instructions are called CSS - Cascading Style Sheets. The content of the site is called the body, and the style sheet will set the size, position, colour, font etc, which all come together to build a beautiful web page.
So what does it look like?
HTML documents look a lot like word documents, you can have bold, italics large fonts, small fonts
But the HTML for these commands would look like this:
<strong>bold</strong><em>italics</em> <font size=+2>large fonts</font><font size=-2>small fonts</font>
So what does all this mean?
What are the symbols "<" and ">" doing? Well, when you place certain instructions, words or letters in between these symbols, you are creating what's called a TAG. For example, the <strong> tag is starting the bold text, and the </strong> tag is saying to stop the bold text. The tag with the "/" in it is the closing tag, and most tags require a closing tag to work properly.
This is essentially how an HTML document is made up.
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