WEB PAGE SET UP

Creation of a personal web page
A personal homepage is your means of putting your own information on the world wide web (www). A web page is nothing more than a text file written with special tags that format the contents, point to other pages, andinsert images and sounds. The tags arecalled hypertext markup language, or html.
There are a variety of ways to generate a web page:
• We may create our text file in many different ways using a text editor such as notepad (windows), simpletext(mac) or pico(unix).
• There are many software packages, such as dream weaver, that you can use to generate the html code for you. Additionally most word processing packages such as ms word, will usually save to the HTML format as well.
• We may choose to use a template (an existing frame of a document) and just fill in the details.
We will now discuss some of the basic HTML tags used:
HEAD TAG
tag has no attributes. Several tags are included inside it.
1.BASEFONT Tag
It defines the font size to be used in html document.




2.BASE Tag
It is useful for setting some global parameters of an html document.





3.META Tag
This tag is used to include additional information about the document and can be used to pass additional information to a browser. There is no ending tag for and a document can have multiple tags. The attribute the meta tag are NAME, CONTENT, and HTTP-EQUIV.

CONTENT=”woodworking, cabinetmaking, handmade furniture”>


HTML and colors
There are two ways of defining colors in HTML documents. One involves simple color names , such as blue, cranberry, green, orange etc. However, since different browsers have different lists and since the definitions of individual colors may vary from browser to browser, we recommend using the color numbering scheme. For eg:
000000 means 00or no red, 00 of green, and 00of blue. So, 000000 represents black.# sign is to denote that they represent a color.

BODY TAG
The text and HTML code that goes between the body beginning and ending tags is rendered and displayed in the document area of the browser’s window.

1.TEXT color

The text attribute is used to change the default text color for an entire document.


2. BACKGROUND color

The BGCOLOR attribute is used to set the background of an HTML document to a single color.


3.HYPERLINK colors
Three attributes are used for changing the color of a hyperlink, where the color depends on the current state of the hyperlink. The three possible states are: unvisited, visited , and currently thinking of visiting.
LINK unvisited hyperlink
VLINK visited hyperlink
ALINK a hyperlink the user is thinking of visiting. The A stands for active hyperlink.
LINK=”#FF0000”
VLINK=”#808080”
ALINK=”#FFFF00”>

HTML FONT COLORS
It allows us to change the color of any portion of text.

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