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HTML - (HyperText Markup Language) The official language of the World Wide Web. Specifies the actual makeup of the HTML document. HTML is a relatively simple language that utilizes elements, such as TAGS to create the desire features of the page. HTML is platform-independent. |
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MARKUP LANGUAGE - Is a structured language that lets you identify common sections of a document such as headings, paragraphs, and lists. An HTML file includes text and HTML markup elements that identify these sections. The HTML markup elements indicate how the document sections display in a browser. The broswer interprets the HTML markup elements and displays the results, hiding the actual markup tags from the user.
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HTML DOCUMENTS - HTML documents are plain-text (also known as ASCII) files that can be created using any TEXT/HTML editor (e.g., Notepad on our Windows machine). You can also use word-processing software if you remember to save your document as "text only with lines breaks." |
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HTML EDITORS - Used to create the HTML Document. HTML Editors range from something as simple as using Notepad to more advanced editors like PageMill and FrontPage. Some of the editors that are available are WYSIWYG editors (e.g., PageMill or FrontPage). WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get"; it means that you design your HTML document visually, as if you were using a word processor, instead of writing the markup tags in a plain-text file and imagining what the resulting page will look like.
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TAGS - To denote the various elements in an HTML document you use tags. Tags are used to translate the text so that a viewer/browser can understand what to display (instructions). Tags are also used to link various pages together. Tags are the basis for the HTML language and are fairly easy to understand. They usually appear in pairs enclosed in angle brackets.
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