Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Exploring HTML


Learning Basic HTML as Inquiry for MYP Project

Name: Saif Khan                
Instructions: 

  1. What does the abbreviation HTML mean?
HyperText Markup Language

  1. Learning HTML involves 2 tasks.  What are they? 

1.  Finding out what tags are used to mark parts of the document
2.  How these tags are used to create a HTML document

 Look at the two screenshots below.

figure a is a browser and figure b is a editor

  1. Notepad is an editor 

  1. What are tags?
Tags are instructions that tell your browser what to show on a webpage


  1. What two characters surround a tag?
< >

  1. What character symbolizes that the tag is a closing tag?
> <
  1. What type of editor is used when creating a Web page with HTML commands?
Text editor
  1. What does the abbreviation URL mean? 
Universal Resource Locator

  1. 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.

  1. 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


  1. 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

  1. which is produced by the <TITLE> tags.


  1. . If you make some changes to your code, which button must you press in the browser? F1

  1. Look at the code in Figure 2.2, and then at the browser in Figure 2.3.

 

  1. 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> 

  1. 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
  1. 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.
  1. 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.

 

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