- HTML 1

What is HTML? 

Hypertext is simply a piece of text that works as a link 

Markup Language is a way of writing layout information within documents.

What does HTML stand for ?
HTML is short for HyperText Markup Language.  
What type of document is HTML?

Basically an HTML document is a plain text file that contains text and nothing else. 

What happens when a browser opens an HTML file?

When a browser opens an HTML file, the browser will look for HTML codes in the text and use them to change the layout, insert images, or create links to other pages.

What does the acronym WYSIWYG stand for?

What you see is what you get.

What do you think is the advantage of using a WYSIWYG editor?

Lets you create pages more or less as you write documents in Word or whatever text editor you're using. 

Why do you need to know HTML?  

It is possible to create webpages without knowing anything about the HTML source behind the page.

What are three benefits of knowing HTML?

You can do the work yourself, when the editor simply refuses to create the effects you want.

You can use tags the editor does not support.

You can read the code of other people's pages, and "borrow" the cool effects. 

Describe how you create a HTML document using a simple text editor ?
You can write your HTML by hand with almost any available text editor, including notepad that comes as a standard program with Windows.
All you need to do is type in the code, then save the document, making sure to put an .html extension or an .htm extension to the file (for instance "mypage.html")

What is another name for a Tag?

Did'nt find the answer

Why are tags used?

To provide a description of the page for search engines.

What do you use to enclose HTML Tags?

< and >.

What is the difference between a start tag and an end tag?

As you can see, the start tag <b> indicates that whatever follows should be written in bold. The corresponding end tag </b> indicates that the browser should stop writing text in bold.