Structure and Links

Structure and Links

1. Web Page Structure

   • HTML
     • HyperText Markup Language
     • Standard markup language used to make webpages
     • Web page designed in HTMl has to follow a certain structure in order to be properly interpreted by the browser
     • The entire sourch code has to be enclosed with HTML tags.
     • The HTML tags tells the browser that the document is being written in HTML
     • Without the html tags, some browsers will not be able to read your web page including the tags will be displayed as plain text to the user
     • The head section is defined by the <head> tags
     • the body section is defined by the <body/> tags
       • Code within these tags will define how a web document will be interpreted by the browser and how it will be displayed.
     • <Body> Tags
       • Text
       • Graphics
       • Sound
       • Video
       • Links to other pages
     • META tags
       • Provide information about a webpage but do not affect how the page is displayed
         • Who created the page
         • How often it is updated
         • What the page is about
         • Which keyboard represent the page content
       • Many search engine uses these information when building their page rankings