Before we start, there is a disclaimer: there has been tremendous growth in the manner in which web pages and web sites are put together. Since this class is designed for a beginner, it will start with some of the older methods. This will help us keep it simple at the start.
As we go through the semester we will get increasingly sophisticated. We will never, ever, know it all.
A web page is created using a language called, Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML Code. You can write your own coding within a plain text editor, such as Note Pad, or use an HTML editor, which will write the code for you.
HTML codes, also referred to as HTML tags, are enclosed by the lesser than (<) and greater than (>) brackets and may be written in capital or lower case letters.*
A fairly length list of HTML tags can be found at http://www.quackit.com/html/tags/
Our task here will be to experiment with some of these tags so that we can see how they work and what they do.