Getting Started Steps

• Expression Web 3
• Expression Web 4

 

• HTML 5

Expression Web 4 & HTML

What is HTML?

HTML stands for hyper text markup language.  It is the language we all learn to design web sites.  HTML is the used to structure web pages and layout content, be it paragraphs or headings. 

Fortunately, Microsoft has made it quite simple to design a web site with just a working knowledge of HTML and CSS.  You do not need to write your own code, so there is no memorization required of all the HTML attributes, etc.

However, you do need to know how and when to apply various tags, such as the following commonly used HTML/XHTML tags:

 <div>

:used to 'divide' a web page into sections.  Example: Make a Layout

<p>

:defines a paragraph

h1, h2, h3

:defines Heading Tags.

<ul>

:creates a bulleted list.  (ul=unordered list)  Example: Used to make Navigation Menus.

<ol>

:creates a numbered list.  (ol=ordered list)

<li>

:each item in a list is wrapped in <li> </li> Tags.  (li=list item)

<a>

:indicates a hyperlink.  (a=anchor)  An anchor is really the text used to create the hyperlink.

<img>

:defines an image in the HTML.  (this is different from CSS images)

<br>

:inserts a line break.  (empty space, a white space character)

<blockquote>

:defines text as a quote.

<span>

:Used along with a class style to define the portion of text that is targeted to be styled.  (this is not a tag we will use directly, rather, it is inserted for us.)

<iframe>

:inline frame.  Is a page within a page.  (avoid using if possible. not accessible, and not valid with all doctypes)