HTML For Novices By Novices

HTML For Novices

By Novices

Creating Web Pages with Ease

Mike Abelar

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Michael Abelar

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For my parents and my friends, Ricky and Tiffany

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4                        

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9 (Conclusion)

Introduction

Hello future web programmer! Welcome to the wonderful world of the internet! In this book, you are not only going to learn how to create websites, but also how to think and problem solve like a programmer. As you have read the title, I consider myself to be a novice. Even more so, I am a fifteen year old teenager in high school. This of course raises the questions: What am I doing here? and Why would I ever want to learn programming from a teenager who calls himself a novice? Those are all essential questions that you may want to be answered before you move on. The point of this book series is to explain programming from my knowledge. I get programming, I self-taught myself an array of languages and I know what works and what does not. I know what materials and methods helped completely code-illiterate people like me from the start. If I were to wait to write this book series, I would have simply learned too much to be the best programming instructor I can be. If you read this series, I will share the knowledge that took me months to try and understand in only a matter of pages. If anything is to be taken from situation, it is that you should learn from me because the knowledge is still fresh in my mind and I am ready to share with you what works and what does not for learning web programming. Now as a fifteen year old, I get that long introductions are boring; let’s jump into programing websites!

What is the Internet?

Before we start programming websites, we first need to understand how the internet operates. Now, here is a boring definition of the internet from Wikipedia: The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide. Confusing right? Okay, let’s try to formulate a definition of the internet based on some basic facts that you may or may not know about the internet.

First,       we know that when we are using the internet, we are on a web browser. Whether it be Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera or any other type of browser, we use that browser to navigate on the internet. With this information, we can make a basic definition of the internet: A global network in which devices with internet browsers connect to.

However, we can add to this definition. What about the devices and hardware that do not use an internet browser yet still seem to be connected to the internet. Take cell phones for example, they don’t necessarily always use a web browser, yet you still get notifications from Facebook and other internet-based platforms for example. If we include this set of devices, we are now talking billions of collective devices which are connected to the internet. Now we can expand out definition to: A global network in which billions of devices are connected to for information. In this case, I added information because all of these connected devices are looking to display and get data. For example, that Facebook notification on your phone is a result of your phone being connected to the internet for that information.

Finally, there is one more component which I would like to add to our working definition, and