Kid's Guide

1 - Tags
2 - Page Sections
3 - Format/Nesting
4 - Head Tags
5 - Body tags
6 - Text Decoration
7 - Lists
8 - Colour
9 - Source
10 - Images
11 - Links/Anchor Tag
12 - Special Charaters
13 - Tables
14 - Frames

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language

In the beginning there was SGML a huge specific language created to talk to and program super computers between 1960-1980. HTML is a cut down form of SGML created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He first wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)-the language computers use to communicate hypertext documents (web pages) over the Internet and designed a way to give documents addresses (ex. http://www.html4kids.net is where you go to find the login page for html4kids) on the Internet. Berners-Lee called this address a Universal Resource Identifier (URI). What we now call a URL-Uniform Resource Locator. In the same year he had also written a program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext documents. He called it the "WorldWideWeb." Web pages are written using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that Berners-Lee had created.

Hyper is the opposite of linear. Hyper means to skip and jump around. It allows the person viewing the World Wide Web page to go anywhere, any time they want. http://www.html4kids.net is the address of ONE web page - the firstpage of this site, the login page. It links to the registration page - http://www.html4kids.net/register.html and to the main program - http://www.html4kids.net/assess.html. Each page on the World Wide Web has an http:// address. Once at the login page, you don't have to go through the registration page every time you want to enter the site - you can login and go to the main program. From there, you can click on any of the links and go to any of the sections. You don't have to do the lesions in order, but pick the that you need. You can skip and jump around in the site. As long as you know the URL - address of a web page, you can go anywhere! Hyper!

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