Building Your First Web Page
Summary:
This summary provides an overview of the topics covered in the lesson on building a web page using HTML and CSS. It starts with an introduction to HTML and CSS, explaining their respective roles in defining the structure and appearance of web content.
The lesson covers common HTML terms such as elements, tags, and attributes. It explains how elements define the structure and content of objects within a web page, tags mark the beginning and end of elements, and attributes provide additional information about elements.
CSS terms like selectors, properties, and values are also introduced. Selectors target specific HTML elements to apply styles, properties determine the styles to be applied, and values define the behaviour of the properties.
The lesson emphasizes the importance of referencing CSS files in HTML using the <link> element within the <head> section. It explains how to create an external CSS file and link it to the HTML file. Additionally, the concept of CSS resets is introduced to ensure consistent styling across different web browsers.
Overall, the lesson provides a foundational understanding of HTML and CSS, covering topics such as document structure, common terms, selectors, referencing CSS, and CSS resets.
Excerpt:
Building Your First Web Page
IN THIS LESSON
HTML
Common HTML Terms
Document Structure
Referencing CSS
CSS
Common CSS Terms
Working with Selectors
Using CSS Resets
Lesson 1
Building Your First Web Page
If you can, imagine a time before the invention of the Internet. Websites didn’t exist, and books,
printed on paper and tightly bound, were your primary source of information. It took a
considerable amount of effort—and reading—to track down the exact piece of information you
were after.
Today you can open a web browser, jump over to your search engine of choice, and search away.
Any bit of imaginable information rests at your fingertips. And chances are someone somewhere
has built a website with your exact search in mind.
Within this book, I’m going to show you how to build your own websites using the two most
dominant computer languages—HTML and CSS.
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