Learning Basic
HTML as Inquiry for MYP Project
Name: Saif Khan
Instructions:
- What
does the abbreviation HTML mean?
HyperText Markup
Language
- Learning
HTML involves 2 tasks. What are
they?
1. Finding out what
tags are used to mark parts of the document
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2. How these tags
are used to create a HTML document
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Look at the two screenshots below.
figure a is a browser
and figure b is a editor
- Notepad is an editor
- What
are tags?
Tags are instructions that tell
your browser what to show on a webpage
- What
two characters surround a tag?
< >
- What
character symbolizes that the tag is a closing tag?
> <
- What
type of editor is used when creating a Web page with HTML commands?
Text editor
- What
does the abbreviation URL mean?
Universal Resource
Locator
- If a company is making a very complicated web
site, they will use special design programs to create the HTML code. For smaller web sites, it is
often best to write all of the HTML code yourself, without a special program.
Identify the correct statements on this list.
a. Other programs often put extra code
in that you don't need. This means your web site might take longer to load.
b. You learn a lot more by writing the
code yourself.
c. You can't use as many extra features, like
animation, graphics and sound if you write it yourself.
d. It takes longer to write the code.
- a. Which start tag would you use to begin an HTML document?
_______
b. Which end tag marks the last line of an
HTML document?
c. Will the </P> tag start a paragraph or end a paragraph? Start a paragraph end a
paragraph
d. This code will
make the word hello appear on the left-hand side of the screen.
<P
ALIGN=LEFT>Hello</P>
Which part of
the code is a parameter? LEFT
What value
does this parameter have? It organizes the text to the left
- This is part
of the code for somebody's first HTML document.
<TITLE>My
First Web Page</TITLE>
They view their
page in a browser. On Figure 2.1, draw a box around the text
- which is produced
by the <TITLE> tags.
- . If you make some changes to your code, which button must you
press in the browser? F1
- Look at the
code in Figure 2.2, and then at the browser in Figure 2.3.
- Which type of
tag does Danny need to add so that the page will look like Figure 2.3?
You need to add a
new slide with the listed tags
Write some of the tags (from your answer
to Question 7) in the paragraph below to make the HTML code correct.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Danny's
Delightful Donuts</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P ALIGN=CENTER>
Drop dead gorgeous
nuggets of Finest Flour,
Fried to a Golden
Brown and Dusted with Demerara Sugar
then rolled in Technicolor
Hundreds and Thousands.
Your mouth will love you
forever!
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
- What
does the software frontpage do?
FrontPage is a web site editing
program published by Microsoft. It is
designed to make it easy for people to create and publish web sites. It is no longer available for sale
- What
is the difference between HTML and Frontpage?
A FrontPage template is designed
only for use in the Microsoft FrontPage program. HTML web templates can be used
in any HTML editing program or plain text editor, such as Notepad.
- What
is dreamweaver used for? How can you compare dreamweaver and HTML
Dreamweaver is a software program
for designing web pages, essentially a more fully featured HTML web and
programming editor. The program provides
a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) interface for users to create and edit
web pages in a more user-friendly environment. Dreamweaver supports multiple web and
programming languages including HTML, C#, Visual Basic (VB), Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS), Active Server Pages (ASP), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and
others.
