Intro to HTML & Java

“This was a lot of reading”- Mikey, A Codefellows Student.

A Brief Summary of What I’ve learned

Introduction (pp.2-11)

• Understanding HTML and CSS can help anyone who works with the web; designers can create more attractive and usable sites, website editors can create better content, marketers can communicate effectively
• People access websites using software called a web browser.
• When you ask your browser for a web page, the request is sent across the Internet to a special computer known as a web server which hosts the website.
• Screen readers are programs that read out the contents of a computer screen to a user.
• HTML is teh skeleton of a website where as CSS is what adds the colors dynamics
• In order for you to find the location of the web server, your browser will first connect to a Domain Name System (DNS) server.

HTML Chapter 1: “Structure” (pp.12-39)

• HTML Describes the structure of a web page
• the skelton should look like
• < html>
• < body> this is the body tag
• < h1> main heading< /h1>
• < p> you can put any kind of words here just like these ones lol< p>
• < h2>a sub header tag< h2>

• < /body> < /Html>”

• <> these angle brackets used in html The characters in the brackets indicate the tag’s purpose.
• Attributes provide additional information about the contents of an element. They appear on the opening tag of the element and are made up of two parts: a name and a value.

HTML Chapter 8: “Extra Markup” (p.176-199)

-Because there have been several versions of HTML, each web page should begin with a DOCTYPE declaration to tell a browser which version of HTML the page is using

• Its a good idea to add comments because it makes it easier to figure what you were doing previously and if other people try to work on your code
• Every HTML element can carry the id attribute. It is used to uniquely identify that element from other elements on the page
• The id attribute is known as a global attribute because it can be used on any element.
• Every HTML element can also carry a class attribute.
• Some elements will always appear to start on a new line in the browser window. These are known as block level elements.
• Some elements will always appear to continue on the same line as their neighbouring elements. These are known as inline elements.

HTML Chapter 17: “HTML5 Layout” (pp.428-451)

• web page authors used < div> elements to group together related elements on the page

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