Today’s goals:
- Continue learning HTML: images, links, and bullets
- First HTML Challenge!
- Progress report individual meetings
Today’s featured web site:
- https://palette.okaybueno.com– This site is great when you need color inspiration!
Questions:
- What are the four basic HTML tags we will always use to set up every webpage we create?
- Where does the text you put inside the title tag show up?
- Why would you use a comment tag? Does the browser display comments?
- What are two tags you can use to force content to start on a new line?
- Name the tags you learned today that are self-closing (not used in pairs)
- How do you save an HTML document correctly?
- Is your webpage live when you preview it in the browser?
- Why are you able to preview your webpage in the browser? (Hint- think about the purpose of a browser)
- When you update your webpage, how can you preview the update you just made? (Hint- two steps)
Create and edit HTML
- Open Notepad++ on your computer
- We’ll use this document as a reference for adding images and bullets
Important!
- HTML tags are never capitalized
- HTML tags usually come in pairs with an opening and closing tag. There are some exceptions, such as the line break tag and the image tag.
- All webpages must be saved as filename.html
First HTML Challenge!
- Fix This Mess: Fix the following code by downloading the text file, copying it, and pasting it into a NEW Notepad++ page. Save the page as broken.html and then fix the coding mistakes. Here is the code to fix.
- I will call students into my office individually to discuss class progress while you are working on this assignment.