Contents
A brief introduction to HTML
Introduction
What we're going to do today
What is HTML
About Text
About Markup
Why HTML is easy
In HTML, we markup by putting tags into text.
Let's do that [1] getting started
Let's do that [2] block level tags
Lets do that [3] inline tags
There's a little bit more to it than this
More about attributes: an example
At the beginning, some bureaucracy
HTML 4.01
XHTML 1.0
Right! Now you know how to markup text...
Pseudo WYSIWYG: Amaya
Marking up with Amaya
Linking with Amaya
Adding a picture with Amaya
Organising content [1] Lists
Organising content [2] Tables
Organising content [3] Rolling your own
'But it looks so boring...'
Adding stylesheets with Amaya
Why HTML is hard
Paper doesn't stretch
The Web does stretch...
... but most commercial Web pages don't
More about scaling
More on disabled access
About Standards...
...and Monopolies
What happens when you try to open BT.com in Amaya?
Why do professional Web designers make such a mess of