1. behind every site is a mix of special languages that your web browser understands The main way of describing any website is HTML HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language Hyper: means active allows the person viewing the World Wide Web page to go anywhere, any time they want. Text: self- explainatory Markup: what you do wit the text (formatting) you are marking up the text the same way you do in a text editing Language: is what HTML is. It uses many English words What is HTML? HTML is a language for describing web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language HTML is a markup language A markup language is a set of markup tags The tags describe document content HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text HTML documents are also called web pages What is HTML? HTML is a language for describing web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language HTML is a markup language A markup language is a set of markup tags The tags describe document content HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text HTML documents are also called web pages

4. HTML has a beginning, middle and end like a story must be complete in order for it to work. if you forget to end a tag it effects the whole story. “We know that this is a heading, but we must also know when it finishes so we can move on and describe the rest of our content. If you forget to put the end of the tag, then everything that follows will think it is the same tag.”

5. HTML consists of tags which are labels we use to tell the browser how we want our website to be presented All tags have the same format they begin with a less than sign” ” Generally speaking there are two kinds of tags Opening tags : Closing tags: the different between opening and ending tags is the forward slash”/”

6. All programs ….. Accessories …..notepad The student name

7. The student name this is my first webpage Save your work in your class folder with the extension.html Close the notepad Go to your folder and double click on your file and you will see the webpage.

8. The student name this is my first webpage Add 2 sentences about yourself, then save your work.

9. The student name this is my first webpage