A shell for your HTML

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Posted on : 23-09-2007 | By : Japh

Ok, so I promised you the basic structure of an HTML page. So here is it:

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>My First HTML Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is the first paragraph on the page.</p>
<p>This is the second paragraph on the page, and it's a little bit longer than the first one.  Try resizing your window to make it narrower to see the text wrap but maintain the paragraph spacing.</p>
</body>
</html>

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Starting at the beginning

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Posted on : 22-09-2007 | By : Japh

What better place to start than at the beginning? Because web development involves quite a lot of jargon, I figure for the first few posts, I’ll just explain what things are. That way, once we start to get into it a bit more, you’ll know what I mean if I use any jargon (I’ll try not to use too much jargon, and just terminology where appropriate!).

So you’ve heard that there’s this stuff called HTML that you use to make web pages… but what is it, and what does HTML even stand for? Read the rest of this entry »

Posted In: Development, HTML