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September 8, 2003 - discussion on Making a webpage
Naïve and incomplete (if such a topic ever could be described completely - the scope of the title is gigantic), inaccurate and inappropriate for Wikipedia, which is an encyclopedia, not a how-to site. Also, the original author seems to have given up and vanished (see early comment on the page's discussion. -- Earle Martin 02:15, 9 Sep 2003 (UTC)
It is problematic that it is a large subject, but the precedent seems to suggest these are kept. See How to and the List of recipes for example. Angela 02:40, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
But see Wikipedia talk:How-to articles - it's one of those cases where status quo != consensus. Martin 13:45, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
In any case, this potentially book-length article is under the wrong title; it should be called something else. So delete. --Daniel C. Boyer 12:55, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Making webpages is conceptually quite simple. The user creates some text files containing HTML, and uploads them to a web server, where they are served to clients (web browsers).
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Extensions
Most web browsers understand more than straight HTML (which is in essence a subset of XML). The most common of these extensions is CSS, which allows the author better control of the browser's presentation of the HTML.
Other extensions that can add interactivty of more complex features to pages (often referred to as client-side scripting) include:
However if the author wishes to maintain compatibility with the widest range of browsers, it is best to stick to standardised HTML as defined by the W3C.
Active pages
Often, pages served to the browser will need to be active (i.e., generated on the fly, for example presenting contents of a database to a user). The pages that arrive at the browser are still normal HTML. This is usually referred to as server-side scripting. Examples include:
Anatomy of a webpage
Each webpage has a HTML header, and a body. The header is composed of elements. An element is also sometimes called a tag, and looks like this:
- <html>
- <head> <!-- The start of the header. -->
- <title>Foobar</title> <!-- The title. -->
- </head> <!-- The end of the header. -->
- <body> <!-- The body -->
- <h1>Hello world!</h1>
- <br />Hello world!<br />
- </body>
- </html>
All the elements end with another tag, apart from <br /> which denotes a new line. The text between <!-- and --> are comments. If you typed that into a text editor and then saved it as "index.html" (without the quote marks), you will have a new webpage all your own.
Different tags you can use
(see also HTML tag)
I <em>did</em> clean my room!
- The <em> tag will mark text as having emphasis (usually renderd as italicized)
<strong>Job</strong>, not <strong>Jeorb</strong>.
- The <strong> tag marks text as being "strong" (usually rendered as bold text)
<img src="insert an image address here"/>
- This tag will insert the image located at the URL in the "src" attribute.
<object src="type an address" type="choose a type"/>
- This can insert not only an image but other media objects as well.
<a href="insert a webpage address">Write here what the link should say</a>
- This makes the text between the opening and closing tags a link to the page or object located at the content of the "href" attriute.
CSS and the new standards
HTML is governed by the W3C, and the new standard is XHTML 1.1, which uses CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, which is a way of changing the appearance of pages, while keeping content and appearance data separate.
External links
- http://www.htmlhelp.com/ is a site with references on HTML and CSS
- http://www.w3c.org/ is the website of the W3C
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp if you want to learn more about HTML
Interwiki
There's an interwiki, is:, at the bottom that isn't linking correctly. Does anyone know how to fix it? Everyking 01:25, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
- I've got no clue about these things, but I saw it before I came to the discussion page. Pulled it for now: [[is:Vefsí<eth>a]] If someone wiser comes along, please put it back. --Schulte 21:57, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
