Introduction to Web Development using HTML 5
By: Kris Jamsa, Ph.D.

Chapter 1: Getting started with HTML

This chapter examines how to build several simple webpages. By the time you finish this chapter, you will understand the following key concepts: ● How a Web browser downloads and processes an HTML page for display
● What the need for a Web server is
● Which Web-development software programs you can use to create webpages more easily
● How to view a site’s HTML and what you can learn from doing so
● How to create your own HTML file
● How to use the HTML tags
● How Web browsers treat spacing and carriage returns
● How to create paragraphs within HTML content
● How to format text to display as bold or italic or both, and how to display document headings and horizontal rules
● Why you should avoid the use of deprecated tags
● How to display special characters within an HTML page
● How to place comments within HTML files
● How to use HTML tag attributes for greater control over your page formatting and appearance
● How to display a page title
● How to use FTP to upload files to a Web server

Chapter PowerPoint Presentation


Hello.html
ThreeLines.html
LineBreak.html
LineBreaks.html
Paragraph.html
BoldText.html
NoStopBold.html
ItalicText.html
Headings.html
Hello.html
HorizontalRule.html
SymbolDemo.html
CommentDemo.html
TitleDemo.html