Getting Started in HTML

Getting Started in HTML

Prerequisites

Knowledge of browsers
Ability to use text editors

Summary

This video covers the topics to get you started with html – covered are;

  • 1. Basic structure of html (html, head, body)
  • 2. Versions of HTML
  • 3. Concept of elements and attributes
  • 4. Simple tag structures
  • 5. How to use “View Source” to see HTML
  • 6. Links and images.

Video

Video 1 – filmed 2011

Video 2 – Filmed 2012

http://online1.daytonastate.edu/player2.php?id=d3aeec875c479e55d1cdeea161842ec6

Reference Materials

If you are new to html then you can easily master html using the w3c schools. This is at http://www.w3schools.com/ . For this class it is expected that you have full mastery of standard html.

There are plenty of html tutorials out there – this Google Search will lead you to a lot of them.

Here is the html text used in this video

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello HTML</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Hello World!</p>
    <img src="Eaglin.jpg">
    <a href="https://cop4813eaglin.pbworks.com/w/page/57579829/Lecture%20-%20Getting%20Started%20in%20HTML">Link to Web Site</a>
  </body>
</html>

Additional Information
The tutorial materials at W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/  and Code Academy http://www.codecademy.com/ will give you a solid background in XHTML.

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