1. Creating your website Using Plain HTML

2. What is HTML? ► Web pages are authored in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) ► Plain text is marked up with tags, like ► Plain text is marked up with tags, like ► The web pages are held on a server ► The user requests a web page by issuing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from their browser ► The web page is returned using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (http)

3. This is how it works… User issues a URL from her browser to a website… Web server softwar e The website returns a web page.

4. Points to note… ► HTML is not a page description language ► A Web browser is not a desktop publishing package ► Consequently, you have less control over how the page will look (try putting in spaces and returns and seeing what difference it makes!)

5. Now try it for yourself ► Work through the Crash HTML course (linked to from this week’s webpage)