Introduction to Web Design
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Learn the basics of creating your own home page using common HTML tags, formatting your text for the web, and adding common items such as links, images and lists.
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is formatting language used to create files that is computer platform and software independent. It can be read over a network by a web browser. Tags are pieces of code surrounded by the symbols < and >, for example <html>. Browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) or Mozilla Firefox, read these tags in order to format the web pages on the screen.
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Its important to always test your webpages in multiple browsers as there are many differences on how each browser might interpret the HTML code. Dreamweaver allows you to preview your page in a browser of choice with an easy keystroke. Dreamweaver also allows you to add and delete browsers as well as to set any browser as the primary browser.
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Adding formatting such as bold, italics, paragraphs and breaks.
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Creating ordered and unordered lists.
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Insert images into your webpage.
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Anchor tags <a> are used to create links to other documents. The anchor tag <a> has a required attribute.
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Preview your finished page in the browser. All this was done in code and in a well structured beautiful document.
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After building a page we can make sure it is up to standards by validating it with an HTML validator.