Editing Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/02 (section)

=A Web page=
* What is a web-page made of? 
* What files do I save when I save a web-page?

== Tools to make a web page ==
* HTML - the (markup) language
** content is marked with different "values"; e.g: paragraph, bold, italic, heading title, etc
** marking is done through tags that wrap the content 
* Browser - the interpreter of HTML, but also a debug and prototyping tool. (Read about what goes on behind the scenes in a Web browser <ref>“Introduction to HTML” https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Introduction.</ref>)
* Text editor - the tool to for designers/developers/programmers tooh write webpages (and programs)tot

== essential HTML tags ==
<pre>
Title Headers: <h1>,<h2>,<h3>,<h4>
Paragraph: <p>
Line break: <br />
italics: <i>
bold: <b>
hyper-links: <a>
image: <img />
comments: <!-- comments -->
</pre>

http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/go/kickoff/imgs/html.gif

* In order to '''format content with tags''' you need to '''enter the content between an opening and closing tag'''. As in the following case:
<nowiki><h1>My Title</h1></nowiki>
** <nowiki><h1></nowiki> is the opening tag
** <nowiki></h1></nowiki> is the closing tag

At times you'll find '''self-closing tags''' which '''have no content inside them''', like horizontal rulers <code><hr /></code>
or line breaks <nowiki><br /></nowiki> or <img />


'''Exercise:'''
* create the structure of your weblog and initial content about yourself - who you are, who you want, etc... , using these tags.
* Find a new tag (in the HTML source of another page or using search ) and use it in your weblog

'''Homework:''' Continue adding content (text, imgs, links, divs, etc) to your weblog

See HTML Element Reference<ref>Mozilla Foundation. “HTML Element Reference,” n.d. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element.</ref> for a exhaustive list of the HTML tags.



===<nowiki><a></nowiki> anchor tag - hyperlinks===

'''remote links''': Normally, like in the example above, you use links to point users to other sites. Those are '''remote links'''
<source lang="html4strict">
<a href="http://www.worm.org/">Worm website</a>
<br/>
<a href="http://tentrotterdam.nl/">tentrotterdam.nl</a>
</source>

Note: the href (address) of a link has to be a complete URL: beginning with http or https 

'''local links''': to links to other files/pages you have created, you use '''local links'''. 
They allow to move within your website.

<source lang="html4strict">
Go to next <a href="next.html">Next</a> page.
</source>


===<code><img></code> attributes:===
<source lang="html4strict">
<img src="http://www.wdka.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/01/Project-Show_I1.jpeg" title="my pic" height="100px" width="200px"/>
<br/>
<img src="my-img.jpg" />
</source>
* src: location of the image
* title: title of the image
* width 
* height

===Get to know more and more about HTML tags ===
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML - HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element - HTML element reference
* “Introduction to HTML” https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Introduction


== HTML skeleton ==
The previous tags only provided content formatting, yet '''to create any working web-page we need to always place the content inside a ''HTML page skeleton'''''.

[[File:skeleton.svg]]

==Local file paths==
Local links and image are some times in parent or child folders, different from the folder of your webpage.

To get an image to load or link to land on the right file, you have to '''indicate the correct path to them'''.

[[File:folder_structure.svg|700px]]

==Local file paths exercise==
* Add to your weblog local images and links.
* Move the HTML file to a different folder.
* Avoid broken images links