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§  What is a Web Site? § 


     To most people a Web Site is what you see.

     A Web Site is an assigned, addressed, and named portion of disk space
on an accessible server.
     The name is a directory (including subdirectories) containing files.

     A webpage is an HTML file. HyperText Markup Language is the collection of elements,

and attributes that display the text, and create the links that

deliver the image and sound files, you see and hear.

     HTML tags give the browser the necessary information it requires to display the page as designed.

     Files, in Directories, on accessible Servers all over the World, make up the
World Wide Web.

     HTML files uploaded to a Server on the Internet, create a Web Site.



§ The Elements of HTML. §

     Elements in the form of tags, instruct browsers how to format, and display HTML files.

HTML element names are case independent.

You can use either upper case, lower case, or both in the same document.

(Use lower case to maintain compatibility with newer languages.)

     Elements can have attributes, and attributes have values.

Values must be enclosed within guotation marks.

     HTML elements come in two varieties, the empty (open) tag,

which is a one-time formatting construct, and the container tag.

     The container has a beginning tag, and an ending tag

that turns off the effects of the beginning tag, and its attributes.

Containers can be nested, or can overlap each other (bad coding).

     HTML documents are identified by the HTML tag.

An HTML document has two main sections - the HEAD, and the BODY.

     The HEAD section, containes the TITLE, and other information read

by the Browser, the Server, and Search Engines.

The text, hyperlinks, and graphics are placed between the two BODY tags.

     The minimal document must contain the following tags:
<HTML> <HEAD></HEAD> <BODY></BODY> </HTML>


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