Chapter 1 exercise: My first webpage
This is a screenshot of a very basic webpage that I made using Notepad to write the html. It is the first exercise in Chapter 1. I was excited to get a taste of coding and I think this was a really cool first project.
Chapter 1 key terms:
browsers= aka web browsers, what people use to access websites. For example, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
web servers= computers always connected to the internet whose purpose is to send webpages to people who request them.
web hosting= companies that you pay to use their web servers.
Domain Name System (DNS) server= like phone books, they send a computer the IP address of the webpage it requested.
structure= how a webpage is organized, html is used to structure a webpage.
html elements= tell the browser about the information between the closing and opening tag.
html tags=containers of information.
attributes= give extra info about what is in between tags.
attribute name= says what kind of info you are giving.
attribute value= the setting for the attribute.
CTRL+U= press these keys to view the source code of a webpage.
