It doesn’t take long to develop a feel for marking up documents properly.Īlthough you may choose to use a web-authoring tool down the line, understanding HTML will make using your tools easier and more efficient. There’s no better way to truly understand how markup works than typing it out, one tag at a time, then opening your page in a browser. I stand by my method of teaching HTML the old-fashioned way- by hand. But because this is an introduction to HTML, it is helpful to see the cause and effect of each small change to the source file along the way. We’ll be checking our work in a browser frequently throughout this demonstration-probably more than you would in real life. It’s not very fancy, but you have to start somewhere.

Step 5: Change the page appearance with a style sheet. This exercise gives you a taste of formatting content with Cascading Style Sheets.īy the time we’re finished, you will have written the source document for the page shown in Figure 4-1. Step 4: Add an image. By adding an image to the page, you’ll learn about attributes and empty elements. You’ll describe the content using the appropriate text elements and learn about the proper way to use HTML. Step 2: Give the document structure. You’ll learn about HTML element syntax and the elements that give a document its structure. Step 1: Start with content. As a starting point, we’ll write up raw text content and see what browsers do with it.

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