How to Design Websites

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In this age of Web 2.0 – Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace – websites have become increasingly sophisticated. The code behind such sites as these is daunting – to see what it looks like, choose View Source from your browser’s menu (Fig 2.1). You may be surprised, then, to find that it is possible to create a simple website completely by hand, using only a text editor. Of course, it is also possible to walk coast-to-coast across the USA, but you may wish to do it only once! Similarly, it is a valuable exercise to try writing code by hand, without software help, but I promise you won’t need to do it ever again.

 

Getting started in HTML

The code or programming language we are going to use here is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), ...