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Basic Web Page
Web pages originated from HTML. While you have spawns of HTML i.e. XHTML and
XML. HTML is still widely used to build web pages. For the most part, web pages
are nothing more than carefully configured HTML tags. People wonder why learn
html?
When you're building web pages, html comes in handy when it comes to debugging
html tags in your page. Normally, a web developer builds a web page using
a WYSIWYG
(What You See Is What You Get) i.e. Notepad editor. You may have heard
web developers using Microsoft FrontPage of Macromedia Dreamweaver to build
webpages.
These
products
have
built-in editors
that will automatically insert html tags for you. This means that you do not
have to build a web page from scratch, using html codes.
Currently, it is recommended that faculty, students and staff use Macromedia
Dreamweaver MX or Netscape Composer. By industry standards Macromedia Dreamweaver
is the best, Netscape Composer is free. Whereas, FrontPage is too proprietary
and insert numerous codes that does not allow you to be flexible.
These products
are good to use, but they are not fool proof. A little knowledge of html
comes in handy, when something goes wrong.
Below is an example of a basic webpage using HTML.
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>My first web page.</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
Professor Jackson
</BODY>
</HTML>
For any web related problems with
this webpage, please e-mail.
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