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Topic 1: The first task to building a website: HTML

The reason the textbook starts with HTML markup is because the first stage in making a web page is to mark up the content, this being things like text, images, audio and video. HTML provides us a mechanism of tags to mark up the content that will be on your web page and each tag defines said content, the most commonly used tags are ones that define the headings, paragraphs, links and images. The lastest and greatest HTML, HTML5, gives us a new set of structural tags that now help users organize the structure of their page better. There tags being header, nav, article, section. aside and footer.

Topic 2: There are compound elements to HTML codding

Aside from HTML being able to markup content like headings, images and paragraphs, it can also create a bit more complex elements lists, tables and forms. These more complicated tags are known as compound elements as the are made up of sets of tags that are supposed to work together. For example, li, or list, has two different ways to work when taging, you can make is and ordered list, ol, or you can make it an unordered list. Just make sure the li is nested inside the ol or ul when writing the code.

Topic 3: What every web page should have

There are certain elements the must be present of every HTML documents as the provide the framwork for the content of your web page to be properly displayed. The is refered to as the HTML template. The first line that does into a new web page is the DOCTYPE, which states that it is an HTML document. Next is the html tag which is the root level tag as all the other tags that go into making a web page are nested inside it. After the html come the head and body. The head contains the tags that will help the broswer know how to display the page. This would be something like the title of your page. The body contains all the content that will make up your web page. So, the articles, paragraphs, header and the footer.