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2012
Internet Safety Recommendations
Install Anti-Virus Software Hackers create special software to take over your computer called virus. They can corrupt system files or completely deny you access to your own computer. Computers without antivirus software on the internet can be infected within seconds of visiting an infected or malicious website or minutes without doing anything else. A special kind of virus called a worm can spread itself to another computer including yours. Some types of viruses install other [...]
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25
2011
Lesson 13 – Forms
HTML forms are used to gather information from the user and then pass that information to the server. A server page or program will then gather the information passed to it and processes the information. A form contains one or more of the following: text boxes, text areas, password fields, check boxes, list boxes, drop down lists, radio buttons, submit buttons and hidden fields. The form can also contain fieldsets, legends and labels for each [...]
12
2011
Lesson 12 – Advanced Tables
Spanning Rows and Columns Tables take a little while getting used to. They become even more complicated when combining rows and columns and adding a header row to the table.
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2011
Lesson 11 – Tables
Tables are used to show tabular data. There are a few tags you should be aware of before creating tables. <table> Defines the start and end of a table <tr> Defines rows of a table and stands for table row <td> Defines a cell of a table and stands for table data
12
2011
Lesson 10 – Lists
Lists are a part of everyday life. People use lists when grocery shopping and create to do lists when planning a series of events they want to accomplish. There are three types of lists in HTML: unordered lists, ordered lists and definitions lists. Unordered and ordered lists are the two simplier lists of the three. They work the same way except for unordered lists uses bullets on the left of each item and ordered lists [...]
12
2011
Lesson 9 – Images
Images are the most simplistic form of media that we can display on a web page. Images can range from a full background picture down to a thumbnail image. To create an image, we use the <img> tag. The src attribute of the <img> tag tells the browser where it can find the image.
11
2011
Lesson 8 – Links
The HT in HTML stands for hypertext. Hypertext is what allows us to navigate from one page to another using our favorite web browser. We can create the linking of page using the <a> tag or anchor tag.
11
2011
Lesson 7 – Span and Div
During the first days of HTML, it was only meant to display text on the screen. Since then, HTML has come a long ways. If you look around the web, you will see a variety of well designed websites. Most of these site use the <div> and sometimes the <span> tag to layout their content.
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2011
Lesson 6 – Formatting Text and Styles
Text would be very boring without a way to spice it up a little bit. Adding color, setting it’s size and telling it what font to use make it more fun and enjoyable to read. In older versions of HTML, the <font> tag was used along with the face, color and size attributes was used to modify the way text looked. Since then, they have been deprecated and are no longer supported in favor of [...]
11
2011
Lesson 5 – Headings
If you add text that have headings, there is a set of HTML tags just for that purpose. Headings (above) is contained within a heading tag. These heading tags are <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5> and <h6> with <h1> being the largest and <h6> being the smallest. This is an example of how they should be used. <html> <head> <title>Learning Headings</title> </head> <body> <h1>Main Heading</h1> <h2>First Topic</h2> <p>Text of the first topic</p> <h2>Second Topic</h2> <p>Text [...]