HTML

What Do You Need?

An editor. It can be as simple as Notepad. We will use the KompoZer html editor, accessed by selecting the Source tab.
A validator. To validate the html we create, we will use the W3C Markup Validation Service. To use this service
- select the Validate by File Upload tab
- browse to where the file is saved, open it and click the Check button
- if you get a success message, congratulations - the underlying html code is correct!
- if you get an error message, fix the errors, and then revalidate

Hyper Text Mark-up Language
Invented in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
Used to make websites
Any program that creates web pages such as DreamWeaver or KompoZer generates HTML code
A browser reads an HTML document from top to bottom, left to right.

An element gives structure to an HTML document.
The most typical structure consists of a start tag, content, and an end tag. For example, <h1>Montana State</h1>. Notice the slash (/) in front of the end tag.
A few elements require no content. these are called empty elements. For example, <br />. Unfortunately, KompoZer will strip the closing slash from these tags.
Elements should be written in lowercase.

The entire document is an html element.
There is a head section where information about the page occurs. For example, you can specify the title of a page. This is a key piece of information used by search engines.
There is a body section where the page content occurs.
Take a look at the initial source code of a KompoZer web page to see the relationship among these 3 elements.

Re-create a portion of the text (starting with the date) of this recent MSU News Article by handcoding the html. Make sure that the html validates.