In today’s webinar, we started our HTML lesson with a discussion of browsers and how they read and render web pages. HTML pages are plain text documents containing tags that control the appearance of text and graphics in the page.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets the standards for the appearance of text and behaviors in web pages so that there are common outcomes when a page is displayed. If for example, a tag is broken or missing, browers revert to the default appearance of text (usually Times Roman) in the specified font size.

Next we looked at the basic set of tags required for a page to display at all. Then we added simple heading and paragraph tags to give the text some structure. Taking advantage of attributes that the tags offer, we could change text alignment (left/center/right), as well as “text decoration” like bold or italics. We also tried creating hyperlinks and adding images using those tags.  The demonstration files for these activities can be downloaded from http://www.pcpowertips.com/webinar/20080305/index.html.

Next week we’re going to cover tables, which are used for positioning text and graphics.

Webinar Date: March 5, 2008

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