July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1034 pages
38h 32m
English
Underneath the hood of any web page—whether it’s your uncle’s “Check out this summer’s fishin’” page or the front door of a billion-dollar online retailer—is nothing more than line after line of ordinary text. You embed simple commands, called tags, within this text. Web browsers know how to interpret the tags to properly display your pages.
When you create a page with tags in it, the document becomes known as an HTML page (for Hypertext Markup Language). HTML is still at the heart of most of the Web.
The HTML code that creates a web page can be as simple as this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www. w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Hey, I am the title of this Web page.</title> </head> <body> <p>Hey, I am some body text on this Web page.</p> </body> </html>
While it may not be exciting, this short bit of HTML is all you need to create an actual web page.
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