Chapter 23 - World Wide Web Documents (HTML)

1. Introduction
2. Display Hardware Varies
3. A Browser Translates And Displays A Web Document
4. A Consequence Of The Web Approach
   Web pages are written in a computer langauge that gives general guidelines about the desired presentation; a browser translates the specification into commands suitable for specific display hardware when rendering a Web page on a given computer display. As a result, the same Web page can appear slightly different when displayed on two different computers or by two different browsers.
5. HTML, The Language Used for Web Documents
6. Instructions In A Web Page Control The Output
7. A Web Page Is Divided Into Two Main Sections
8. Indentation Can Make HTML Readable
   Although a browser ignores indentation when displaying an HTML document, placing tags on separate lines and indenting items can make it easier for a human to read the document. Readability is especially important when the person who updates a Web page differs from the person who initially created the page.
9. The Body Of A Web Page Can Contain Text
10. Indentation Can Make Paragraphs Easier To Find
11. A Web Page Can Link To Another Page
12. HTML Allows Numbered And UnNumbered Lists
13. Images On A Web Page Are Digital
14. HTML Allows A Web Page To Include An Image
15. Text Can Appear Adjacent To An Image
16. Images Can Link To Another Web Page
17. Some Browsers Can Stretch Or Shrink Images
18. The Background Can Be Controlled
19. Other Features Of HTML
20. Importance of HTML
21. GUI Tools Help with Web Page Creation
    Although HTML is the ultimate underlying language, web authoring tools are available that allow a user to compose a Web page without learning HTML

1. Notes on Creating Web Documents
2. Guides and Tools to Writing HTML Documents
3. HTML
4. HTML Editors and Other Tools
5. Course Website Templates, Tools & Guides

Terms

• document body
• document head
• HTML
• HyperText Markup Language
• tag
• GIF
• JPEG