Introducing the World Wide Web Internet- a structure made up of millions of interconnected computers whose users communicate with each other and share information. Computers that are linked together form a Network; a network that has Internet access can join the worldwide Internet community.

World Wide Web- organizes the Internet's vast resourc es to give you easy access to information.

Hypertext document An electronic file that contains elements that you can select by clicking a mouse to open. Hypertext offers a new way of progressing through a series of documents so that you progress through pages in whatever way is suited to your desires (You can skip from one topic to another). Click Here!

A feature that contributes to the popularity of the web is that it gives users the ability to easily create their own web pages.

The World Wide Web has two components: Web Server- the computer that stores the web page that users access. Web Browser- software program that accesses the web document and displays its contents on the user's computer.

HTML: The Language of the Web To create a web document, you use a special language called a markup language, HyperText Markup Language (HTML). HTML was designed to describe the contents of the web page in a very general way.

HTML: The Language of the Web Basic HTML uses code that describes the function the text has in the document. A web browser interprets these codes to determine the text's appearance. Extensions- features that add new possibilities to HTML.

Writing HTML Documents HTML documents are simple text files. The only software you n eed is a basic text editor such as Notepad. If you want software to do some of the work of creating an HTML document HTML converters or HTML editors are available

HTML Software : HTML converter- takes text in one format and converts it to HTML code Converters free you f rom the laborious task of typing HTML code and you do not have to worry about typographical errors in your code. HTML editor- helps you create an HTML file by inserting HTML codes for you as you work.

An HTML document has two elements: Document content - parts of the document that you want the user to see. Tags - HTML codes that control the appearance of the document content.

HTML Syntax The HTML syntax applies a tag to the document content in this way: – content – You always identify a tag by the brackets (<>) that enclose the tag name.

Tags usually come in pairs: Opening tag - comes first and tells the browse r to turn on the feature and apply it to the document content that follows. Closing tag - turns off the feature Closing tags are identified by a slash (/) that precedes the tag name.

One-sided tags - tags that require only the opening tag. Two-sided tags require both the opening and closing tags. Tags are not case sensitive; is the same as.

To start entering code: You need a basic text editor such as Notepad. The tag is used where you enter information about the web page itself such as a title. A title is entered using the tag followed by the title which is followed by the tag. At the end of the head you need to close it by adding the tag.

Entering HTML Code: The portion of the web page that users will see is contained between the tag and the tag. My first web page Type what you want people to see here!

Saving Your File Save it as something.htm (something can be changed to whatever you want but it must end in.htm)!

Heading Text HTML supports six levels of headers ( through ). Smaller numbers are larger and larger numbers are smaller headings. Heading Text

New Paragraphs You begin a new paragraph by adding the tag before the first sentence of that paragraph. —————————————————— You can also add a line by adding the tag where you want the line.

You can create emphasis by adding special codes to your page: puts emphasis on whatever follows puts more emphasis than on whatever follows makes the text that follows bold makes the text that follows italicized Example: This is BOLD

Inserting a Graphic The tag is used for displaying an image. The code for inserting an image is