| The increasing use of the Internet and the advent of | | | | documents are simple ASCII text files. This means that |
| the World Wide Web have created a growing need | | | | a simple text editor such as "Simpletext" for Macintosh |
| for individuals who are familiar with the Web design | | | | or "Notepad" for Windows could be used to create |
| principles coupled with Web page scripting skills. The | | | | HTML documents. There are many basic HTML |
| World Wide Web has greatly impacted our society. It | | | | editors of which HTML editor for Windows and HTML |
| has become a new form of communication, a new | | | | editor for Macintosh are recommended. WYSIWYG |
| way to purchase products and services, a new way | | | | (what you see is what you get) HTML editors are |
| to entertain, provide news, and learn valuable and | | | | another type of editor. They are like word processors |
| sometimes valueless, information. As the web has | | | | or page layout software for web documents. Their |
| matured from a "get rich quick" technology into a | | | | goal is to provide authors of web documents with a |
| valuable new communications tool, it has fostered new | | | | method of building pages without having to learn HTML. |
| career opportunities and challenges. The Hypertext | | | | Examples are Dreamweaver, GoLive, and FrontPage. |
| Markup Language (HTML) is the language used to | | | | A question may arise as to why a person should learn |
| describe the contents of a Web page. It defines the | | | | HTML. This is because professionals need to |
| syntax and placement of special instructions called | | | | understand the code behind the document so that |
| "tags" which describe the desired structure of the | | | | they can learn the limitations as well as the possibilities |
| content to the browser. An HTML document contains | | | | of HTML. However, all WYSIWYG editors do not |
| text (content) and embedded tags, which provide the | | | | create a clean code. The most common extension for |
| instructions to the browser on how to structure the | | | | files containing HTML is .html, however, older operating |
| document. One of the powerful features of HTML is | | | | systems, such as DOS, limit file extensions to three |
| the "hypertext link" that allows the HTML author to | | | | letters. So .htm extension is still in use. Although |
| define pages to jump to (linking). This ability to jump to | | | | perhaps less common now, the shorter form is still |
| another page or to an entirely different Web site is | | | | widely supported by current software. |
| unique to the Web based document. HTML | | | | |