| Sources: |
| Syracuse University Computing
information on web page creation and design |
| National Center
for Supercomputer Applications information on HTML coding |
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator, is the address of a file
(resource) accessible on the Internet. The type of resource depends on the Internet
application protocol. Using the World Wide Web's protocol, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP)
, the resource can be an HTML
page (like the one you're reading), an image file, a program such as a common
gateway interface application or Java applet,
or any other file supported by HTTP. The URL contains the name of the protocol required to
access the resource, a domain
name that identifies a specific computer on the Internet, and a hierarchical
description of a file location on the computer.
- http
- hyper text transfer protocol
is the set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and
other multimedia files) on the World Wide
Web. Relative to the TCP/IP
suite of protocols (which are the basis for information exchange on the Internet), HTTP is
an application protocol.
Essential concepts that are part of HTTP include (as its
name implies) the idea that files can contain references to other files whose selection
will elicit additional transfer requests. Any Web
server machine contains, in addition to the HTML and other files it can serve, an HTTP
daemon,
a program that is designed to wait for HTTP requests and handle them when they arrive.
Your Web browser
is an HTTP client,
sending requests to server machines. When the browser user enters file requests by either
"opening" a Web file (typing in a Uniform
Resource Locator) or clicking on a hypertext
link,
the browser builds an HTTP request and sends it to the Internet
Protocol address
indicated by the URL. The HTTP daemon in the destination server machine receives the
request and, after any necessary processing, the requested file is returned.
- html
- hyper text markup language is the set of markup
symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser
page. The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's words and images for
the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element (but many people also
refer to it as a tag).
Some elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to begin and when it
is to end.
- Definitions from Whatis.com
|
| html code: |
translates to: |
<html>
<head>
<title> text </title>
</head>
<body>
text
</body>
</html>
|
Declares the beginning of an html document
Declares the beginning of the header
Text of the title which is displayed at the very top of the
page in the header.
Declares the end of the header
Declares the beginning of the body
Text and/or images of the body
Declares the end of the body
Declares the end of the html document. |
| More html codes: |
translates to: |
<b> text </b> |
make text bold |
| <i> text </i> |
make text italic |
| <u> text </u> |
make text underlined |
| <p> new paragraph </p> |
declares a new paragraph (inserts a blank line)(does not actually require a
closing tag) |
| <p align=center> new paragraph centered </p> |
centers the paragraph horizontally on the page |
| <br> line break </br> |
starts a new line (does not actually require a closing tag) |
| <font> text </font> |
declare font type |
| <font face="Arial" size="2"> text </font> |
declares the font type to be arial and the font size to be 2 |
| <img src="full path name to image file" alt="alternate image or
text" (size of image) width="pixel width" height="pixel height" |
inserts an image file |
| <img src="../images/animationimages/view%20empty.gif" alt="view
empty dialog box (1385 bytes)" WIDTH="194" HEIGHT="87"> |
example of an image insertion (does not require a closing tag). |
| <a href="link to another web page">text</a> |
hyper link, link to another web page |
<a
href="http://soa.syr.edu/soa.core.html">
Syracuse University School of Architecture</a> |
example
of a hyperlink |
| lists. HTML supports numbered, unnumbered and definition lists. List
may be nested inside of lists. |
| <ul> <li> list item
</li>
<li> list item </li>
</ul> |
start of unnumbered list item
on the list
another item on the list
end of list |
| <ol> <li> list item
</li>
<li> list item </li>
</ol> |
start of ordered (numbered) list item onthe list
antoher item on the list
end of list |
| <dl> <dt>
definition term </dt>
<dd> definition </dd>
<dt> definition term </dt>
<dd> definition </dd>
</dl> |
start of definition list term
to be defined
definition
another term to be defined
definition
end of definition list |
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