Todays Goals
- Get a basic knowledge of how web pages work and what is the internet
- Start learning to code a webpage in HTML
I would recommend reading through my entire post before you get started.
Anyways, here is what I have for you today.
Web Design
So I want you to be able to create web pages. To do this you need to learn a little bit about the how the internet works. I want you to go with a partner and do some online research to determine responses to the questions below.
Oh, by the way, when you type in your answers, don't just copy and paste. If you do, I will reply and ask you to redo it.
- What is your understanding of what the internet is?
- Tell me what HTML is, and not just what it stands for
- Tell me what a URL is, and not just what it stands for
- What is a Search Engine?
- What is a Browser?
- What is an IP Address and what kinds of things have these?
- What is the difference between a download and streaming content?
- What is Phishing?
- What is SPAM?
Send your responses to niall.mcfadyen@7oaks.org. Include your names with your responses.
If you do not have an email go to www.gmail.com and create one using the following information.
User: Firstname.Lastname@connect.7oaks.org
Password: Your school password followed with a "g"
Using HTML To Build a Webpage
Ok, so to create a website, we need to use HTML code to build it. HTML is made up of tags that look something like this
<html>
<title>This is my test page</title>
<body>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
<title>This is my test page</title>
<body>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
A web browser reads these tags and then know what information to show us.
If you go to any website using Google Chrome and do a control+click (on Mac) you can select "view page source". By doing this you will see the HTML code for the web site. Because you probably chose a pretty crazy looking webpage, the code will make no sense and will look overwhelming.
This video will help things make more sense
After watching the video, I bet that you are still confused.
To help you even more go to http://www.w3schools.com/ and click the link "Learn HTML" this well give you an easy HTML editor to play around with, follow the instructions, go through some of the tutorials, and things should start making sense.
Oh yeah, if you want a site that can help you with the first part of the activity today go to the URL https://www.lifewire.com/top-internet-terms-for-beginners-2483381
I am thinking that going through everything here will take you a couple of hours, but if you finish early there are tons of videos on Youtube about the basics of HTML and web design that you can check out.