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A few pieces of good advice for your website projects. Lesson 15: The final tips Congratulations, you have now reached the final lesson. So now I know everything? You have learned a lot and you are now capable of making your own websites! However, what you have learned are the basics and there is still a lot more to be mastered. But you now have a good foundation from which to build on. In this last lesson, you will get some final tips

Learn about the common standard of HTML and how to check your coding is correct. Lesson 14: Web standards and validation In this lesson, you will get a little more theoretical knowledge on HTML. What more is there to know about HTML?

Find out how to get your pages published on the Internet so others can enjoy them too. Lesson 13: Uploading pages Until now, only you have had the satisfaction of viewing your pages. Now it is time for the rest of the world to see your masterpieces. Is the world ready for that? The world is ready - you soon will be too.  To get your website on the internet, you just need some server space and a free FTP program . If you have Internet access, you might already have some free server space for your website. Your server space will then probably be called something like http://home.provider.com/~usernumber. But you might need to activate it first. Read more about this in the papers from your Internet provider or on their support pages.

Understand how Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be used to add fantastic layout to your pages. Lesson 12: Layout (CSS) Wouldn't be great if you could give your pages the layout they deserve? Sure, but how? To give your website layout use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) . In this lesson you will get a short introduction to CSS. But later you can learn all about CSS from scratch in our CSS tutorial . So please consider this lesson only as an appetizer

Create even more advanced tables. Lesson 11: More about tables The title "More about tables" may sound a bit boring. But look at the positive side, when you master tables, there is absolutely nothing about HTML that will knock you out. What is left then? The two attributes  colspan  and  rowspan  are used when you want to create fancy tables. Colspan  is short for "column span".  Colspan  is used in the  <td>  tag to specify how many columns the cell should span

Construct HTML tables for the presentation of structured content. Lesson 10: Tables Tables are used when you need to show "tabular data"  i.e. information that is logically presented in rows and columns. Is it difficult? Building tables in HTML may at first seem complicated but if you keep cool and watch your step, it is actually strictly logical - just like everything else in HTML. Example 1: <table> <tr> ll 1</td> <td>C <td>C eell 2</td> </tr> /td> <tr> <td>Cell 3 <<td>Cell 4</td> </tr> </table> Will look like this

Familiarise yourself with seven of the most-used elements Lesson 9: Images Wouldn't it be great if you could have an image of actor and music legend David Hasselhoff right in the centre of your page? That sounds like a bit of a challenge... Maybe, but in fact it is pretty easy to do. All you need is an element: Example 1: <img src="david.jpg" alt="David" /> would look like this in the browser

Discover how to create links to your own and other pages on the Internet. Lesson 8: Links In this lesson, you will learn how to make links between pages. What do I need to make a link? To make links, you use what you always use when coding HTML: an element.  A simple element with one attribute and you will be able to link to anything and everything . Here is an example of what a link to HTML.net could look like

Learn to add extra information to your tags and formulate commands in a more explicit manner. You can add attributes to a number of elements. What is an attribute? As you probably remember, elements give structure to a HTML document and tells the browser how you want your website to be presented (for example,  <br />  informs the browser to make a line break). In some elements you can add more information. Such additional information is called an attribute. Example 1: <h2 style="background-color:#ff0000;">My friendship with HTML</h2> Attributes

Familiarise yourself with seven of the most-used elements. Lesson 6: A few more elements Did you manage to make a few pages on your own? If not, here is an example: <html> <head> <title>My website</title> </head> <body> <p>text, text text <h1>A Heading</h1> , text</p> ext text, text</p> <h2>Subhead</h2> <p>text, t </body> </html> Now what ?

Lesson 5: What have you learned so far? Always start with the basic template we made in the previous lesson: <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> In the head section, always write a title:  <title> The title of your page </title> . Notice how the title will be shown in the upper left corner of your

Lesson 4: Create your first website With what you learned in the previous lessons, you are now only minutes away from making your first website. How? In Lesson 1 we looked at what is needed to make a website: a browser and Notepad (or similar text editor). Since you are reading this, you most likely already have your browser open. The only thing you need to do is to open an extra browser window (open the browser one more time) so you can read this tutorial and see your new website at the same time. Also, open Notepad (in Accessories under Programs in the Start menu

Lesson 3: Elements and tags You are now ready to learn the essence of HTML: elements. Elements give structure to a HTML document and tells the browser how you want your website to be presented. Generally elements consists of a start tag, some content, and an end tag. "Tags"? Tags are labels you use to mark up the begining and end of an element. All tags have the same format: they begin with a less-than sign "<" and end with a greater-than sign ">". Generally speaking, there are two kinds of tags - opening tags: <html> and closing tags: </html>. The only difference between an opening tag and a closing tag is the forward slash "/". You label content by putting it between an opening tag and a closing tag.

Lesson 2: What is HTML? This lesson will give you a brief presentation of your new friend, HTML. What is HTML? HTML is the "mother tongue" of your browser. To make a long story short, HTML was invented in 1990 by a scientist called Tim Berners-Lee. The purpose was to make it easier for scientists at different universities to gain access to each other's research documents. The project became a bigger success than Tim Berners-Lee had ever imagined. By inventing HTML he laid the foundation for the web as we know it today

Lesson 1: Let's get started In this first lesson, you will get a brief presentation of the tools you need to make a website. What is needed? Most likely you already have everything you need. You have a "browser". A browser is the program that makes it possible to browse and open websites. Right now you are looking at this page in your browser.