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Each link below will take you to a different web page which contains
a different task. Each task introduces a small set of concepts about
reading and writing in the HTML language.
Task list is as follows.
You complete each task with the following steps.
- Browse the page for the task using the Netscape web browser.
- View the source code that for the page. In Netscape, the
command to do this is Page Source and is located under the
View menu on the toolbar or can be accessed by pressing Ctrl
U. (The phrase source code refers to the actual text that comprises
the page.) This source code is displayed as
formatted text and possibly graphics by a web browser. The essential
structure of HTML is that text is marked up by tags. A start tag,
for example, <BODY>, appears at the beginning of a piece of
marked up text. A matching end tag for example, </BODY> appears
at the end of the marked
up text.
- Envision how the source code generates each line in the web
page. The code that actually makes up the page is contained within
the <BODY> tag.
- Edit the source code to achieve the task specified in the
page. You can edit the page by using the Notepad program on your PC.
This program can be found at C:\Winnt\Notepad.exe or by typing the
word notepad into the dialog box invoked by the Run command on the
Start menu. When you Open a file in Notepad you have to set the file
type control in the open dialog box to all files. After you have finished
one task, go on to the next one using the link on the original page.
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