- Start by locating Notepad++ into your programs list. You will be writing the HTML code into it. The HTML code offers the structural skeleton of your content, a very nice visual is in Duckett (page 21). As far as text is concerned and turned into a code, I had to use Duckett's book as a guide since I was a beginner with HTML. It is important to be aware than even minor punctuation functions such as quotations also have a code in HTML. I ran into several problems when I thought quotations go into text and do not affect it.
- Another important insert into the HTML code are the links. There are two types of links:internal (they send to other pagesof same site), external, or links sending to a specific part of your one and the same page. All these translate into different tags in the HTML code.
- Working with images is another important part of the inserts you may have on a page. This is actually a separate chapter in the HTML coding since you might need to start familiarize yourself with GIMP or PHOTOSHOP to be able to manipulate your images. Once you got that, HTML will help you select the size, placing on page, align and add captions.
- A special note will go to SPECIAL MARKUP with HTML. This special markup is to help you isolate and locate elements that you might group together in a separate visual on the page with CSS or elements you want to group to give them a certain style, different from the rest of your page. I have found essential Duckett's details on these elements as he presents them on pages 183-8.