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History of the Internet and WWW

What is HTML?

Exercise: Hand-code your own page

Simple freeware WYSIWYG editors

Exercise: Make a page with AOLPress

Code references

Browser versions

FTP

Link syntax and file naming


HTML Basics

Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
www.nvcc.edu/home/nvwillj/html-basics/
nvwillj@nvcc.edu


Basic HTML code references

Builder.com has one nice page in "20 Questions about HTML" that runs through the basic page code. http://www.builder.com/Authoring/Basics/ss09.html

Web Design Group's guide to HTML 3.2 - This site lists HTML codes both by where they are used in a document and alphabetically.  http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/

The Bare-Bones Guide to HTML 3.2 - This guide has HTML references in several languages http://werbach.com/barebones/

HTML Quick Reference Guide - The chief advantage here is that the whole thing is on one page, i.e. it can be printed out and kept by your computer.  http://www.cc.ukans.edu/info/HTML_quick.html

The W3C is the horse's mouth for all HTML questions. Visiting their site is a sort of pilgrimage for web developers. You don't have to go often, but you do have to go some time. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

HTML 4 references are covered in the section on HTML 4.