I feel bad...

...that I haven't been using my blog through out web design but I've got written notes so I'll post them now...

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

The first week we were using basic HTML in text edit (Apples version of Windows note pad) which seemed really confusing but there's an order to it which helps to remember when attempting it for the first time - always have opening and closing parts with a forward slash to close it e.g. < opening > and < / closing > without the spaces. Different abbreviations inside change the commands for what you want to be done to the text or space between the opening > and closing < / eg < b > makes the text bold and < u > makes the text underlined or < i > for italics or join them all up (< b >< i >< u > with closing html using the / before each letter) to get this

We can also

center the text

using the opening clause of < p align="center" > and the close of < / P > (minus the spaces again) these can be changed to left aligned or right aligned by swapping the word in the quotation marks to

"left"

or

"right"

Choosing fonts in html is similar to aligning paragraphs - < font face="Courier New" > for courier new text and close using < /font >. Obviously the font can be changed by writing in different font names e.g. Helvetica or Webdings <-that was meant to say Webdings :), play around and see what happens.

Always remember to put a closing html (e.g. < / i > or < / font> etc.) or all the text following that opening html will be in the style you've chosen.

Here endeth the lesson on font based basics...(I think?)

p.s. the previous post's from when I started poking Dreamweaver and getting confused beyond recognition. Nothing to worry about :)