Internet Marketing
Tools
Part Six HTML Basics
By Shelley Lowery
If you're doing
business on the Internet, learning some basic web design
skills is an absolute must. Not only will you have the
ability to create your own web pages, but you'll also save
yourself a great deal of money.
Selecting an HTML Editor
Although there are many HTML editors available on the
Internet, the best editor I've found is "Coffee Cup." This
powerful editor is great for newbies and experienced
webmasters alike. You can download a fully functional
shareware version here:
http://www.coffeecup.com
Web pages are created with special codes known as HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language). These codes, also referred to
as tags, are enclosed by the lesser than (<) and greater
than (>) brackets and may be written in capital or lower
case letters.
The opening bracket is followed by an element, which is a
browser command, and ends with the closing bracket.
Example:
<font>
An element may also be followed by attributes, which are
words describing the properties of the element, and further
instruct the browser.
Example:
<font size="2">
Attributes are only contained in the opening tags to the
right of the element and are separated by a space and
followed by an equal (=) sign. The value follows the
equal sign and is enclosed in quotes.
Basic Document Structure
Below, is a very basic HTML document structure. It contains
the opening HTML tag, the TITLE tag enclosed between the
opening and closing HEAD tags, the opening and closing BODY
tags and the closing HTML tag. All of your text, graphics
and any additional HTML codes will be placed between the
<BODY> and </BODY> tags.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Web Page Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Each HTML tag above contains an opening tag and a closing
tag. The opening tag is written with the command enclosed
with brackets.
Example:
<HTML>
The closing tag contains a forward slash followed by the
command enclosed with brackets.
Example:
</HTML>
The opening tag is telling the browser to begin the
specified action and the closing tag is telling the browser
to end the action.
The proper way to write HTML is to place your closing tags
in sequence with your opening tags.
Example:
<B><I>Example
of the proper sequence of writing HTML</I></B>
Notice that the closing tags are in sequence with the
opening tags.
When you have several opening tags, the closing tags will
begin with the last opening tag and end with the first. Are
you totally confused now? Here's some more examples.
This is an example of a properly written code:
<B><I>Example</I></B>
This is an example of an improperly written code:
<B><I>Example</B></I>
Creating a Basic Document
Begin writing your HTML by creating your document's basic
layout -- beginning with <HTML> and ending with </HTML>:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Description of your
web page">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Keywords that best
describe your web page separated with a comma.">
<TITLE>Your Page Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
This area will contain everything that will be visible
through a web browser such as text and graphics.
</BODY>
</HTML>
<HTML>- Begins your HTML
document
<HEAD> - Contains
information about the page such as, the TITLE, META tags for
proper Search Engine indexing, STYLE tags, which determine
the page layout and
JavaScript coding for special effects.
<TITLE> - The TITLE of
your page. This will be visible in the title bar of your
visitors' browser.
Note: Make sure you include your most relevant keyword
phrase within your "title" for Search Engine indexing. A
keyword phrase is two or more words that best
describe your website. For example, if your website focuses
on "grooming dogs" then your best keyword phrase will be
"dog grooming."
</TITLE> - Closes the
<TITLE> tag.
</HEAD> - Closes the <HEAD>
tag.
<BODY> - This is where you will begin writing your
document.
</BODY> - Closes the <BODY> tag.
</HTML> - Closes the <HTML>
tag.
Basic Text Elements
<B> - Bold Text
<B>Example</B>
<I> - Italic
<I>Example</I>
<U> - Underline
<U>Example</U>
Color Codes
If you would like to specify a certain text or background
color, you can do so by using color codes.
RGB color codes are represented as hexadecimal values. The
RGB color codes contain three sets of numbers representing
the amount of Red, Green and Blue contained in a color.
These codes must be used within your HTML to specify your
selected colors.
Now, to put the above statement in English...if you'd like
to display your text in a certain color, you must include
the hexadecimal color code within your font tag. Each color
has its own color code.
Here are a few of the basic color codes:
Black - #000000
White - #FFFFFF
Red - #FF0000
Green - #00C000
Blue - #0000FF
Yellow - #FFFF00
Example:
<font color="#FF0000">Example</FONT>
You can find a 216 safe color chart here:
http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm
Creating Links
In order to navigate a web page, you must create links.
Links are created with an anchor, an href attribute and a
URL (Uniform Resource Locator). URL's provide the browser
with the location of the link, the name of the file and the
method in which to access the file.
Example:
<A HREF="http://www.domain.com/">Link</A>
When you begin writing your HTML code, all of your codes
will be placed between your <BODY> and </BODY> tags, as this
is the only part of your web page that will be viewed
through a web browser.
You can find an HTML code chart here:
http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm
This chart will provide you with all of the basic HTML
codes, descriptions and examples to assist you in creating
your web page.
Although this article provides you with a very basic
overview of HTML, with the help of Coffee Cup and the HTML
code chart mentioned above, you can easily begin learning
how to create your own web pages.
Copyright © Shelley Lowery
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