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Till now you are clear with tags and attributes and basic HTML definitions. Today’s lesson lays emphasis on HTML editors, Internet browser. I’ll also tell you what is W3C.Lets start.
HTML Editors
To start our work with HTML we need an HTML editor to write, edit, format codes. There are basically 2 types of HTML editors, they are classified as :
1. Code based editors : They are the type of editors that allows you to see the HTML code as you are creating the HTML document. For example, Notepad.
2. WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get ) : These are the advanced editors that shows you the output of the codes that you type. For example, Dreamweaver.
Note : If you want to master in HTML and CSS, I recommend you to use Notepad as HTML editor because it will help you in learning all the HTML tags and attributes. Manually doing all the work will increase your typing speed and slowly, you will learn how to write error free codes.
Extra Tip : You should not use any word processing program like Wordpad as HTML editor because it includes some extra formatting characters that causes problem.
Internet Browsers
As we are learning HTML so I’ll define browser according to that, a browser is an application that convert given codes to graphics and text in order to display Web pages. Some of the famous Internet browsers are Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer. You can get whole list of Browsers here.
They all fall under Graphical Browser category as they display graphics, sounds and videos. Yes, there were browser in early 90’s that used to display only text and hence were termed as text-based browsers. As far as I know Lynx was the first text-based browser. Lets not go deep into browsers and move further to W3C.
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
While viewing the source code of any web page online you will see a text like this written at the top.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
What is this W3C ?
Basically, W3C is World Wide Web Consortium. It defines and publishes HTML standards. They release new HTML tags and attributes. Currently, we are studying HTML version 4.0. For more info visit W3c official website or read more about it here.
This was the Lesson 2, click here for Lesson 1.
If you like this post, you will love these :
- Starting With Five Structure HTML Tags : Lesson 3
- Welcome To HTML Tutorials : Introduction : Lesson 1
- All HTML Tags And Attributes : Lesson 4 Part1
- All HTML Tags And Attributes : Lesson 4 Part2
- How To Set Internet Explorer As A Default Internet Browser [TRP]
- Test Your Web Design In Different Browsers : Browsershots.org
- Understanding URLs and Linking : Lesson 5
Gaganpreet Singh on August 4, 2009 | Filed Under Series
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I was expecting some detailed information.
Please make this series exciting and more informative by adding lot details and much more easier to understand by including examples and many other possible info.
Your first post of this series was really good had detailed info.
Thanks, I am learning.
Thanks so much for doing this. I’m in the process of building my first custom template and the blind copy-paste stuff was killing me.
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Nice post….
Need more information as this is the second lesson. this is what i think…
Thanks so much for this. I’m still building my first template.
Hi! I like to use Komoedit or Notepad for writing xHTML codes. Also after mastering much I use DW code mode to write CSS! Komoedit rocks on writing JavaScript and PHP! But in all the cases I think we should and should replace the basic Notepad with atleast Notepad which highlights the syntax for better view and understanding
btw, i think adding some padding to the comment-gravatar will make the comment div to show images properly
.comment-gravatar {
padding: 7px 0 0 7px;
}
great job and it is very nice thanks