WWW and HTML
In this session we briefly looked at the historical evolution of the World Wide Web and HTML. Here is a copy of the presentation. Here is a summary of basic HTML tags used to create a simple webpage. 1. Basic structure of an HTML Document The following tags form the overall structure of an HTML document. <html></html> to start and end an HTML document. <head></head> to define meta-data about the document. <title> My webpage title </title> to define the title shown in the browser title bar. <body> My website content </body> for the visible content of your page. Get further practice here 2. Text formatting The following tags are used to format text. i) <p> some text </p> : to create and end paragraphs. ii) <em> some text </em> : to create italic text . iii) <strong> some text </strong> : to create bold text . iv) <br ⁄> to create line breaks. For example, here is a