Goals

• By viewing the source of a simple example page, students will see the following:

  • The basic structural tags of of a web page such as HTML, HEAD (includes TITLE), and BODY.

  • Some simple inline tags such as BOLD, the FONT tag used to set the color of text (the font tag also does more, as we'll see later), and the use of special codes to add special characters to a web page such as the copyright symbol. Inline tags appear "in line" with whatever text they modify.

  • Some of the basic block formatting tags. These tags always force whatever is after them to start on a new line (and some have other side effects too). The block tags we'll see are the PARAGRAPH tags, the HTML Heading H2 tags, the line break BR tag, the horizontal rule tag HR, and two of the three types of LISTS (ordered and unordered) along with the List Items that go in those lists.

• By using the File menu Save as command, students will learn how to save the HTML source code from a web page to their local computer's floppy drive.

• By using a Text Editor such as notepad (PCs) or simple text (Mac), students will learn the process of editing web pages on their local computers.