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COM1000 Beginning HTML Overview
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JS (Javascript) are the three primary languages that are used to create web pages. Every time you consume content on the web, those languages were used to create what you are seeing, hearing, reading, or watching. If you’ve wanted to learn about basic web coding, now’s…
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Video in HTML files
Hosting and streaming video requires a lot of storage and bandwidth. Many shared hosting plans will allow you to host your video. In this instance, you would use the <video> tag to provide that content to your users. However the performance can sometimes be terrible because shared hosting can contain many web sites and are…
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Q&A: Plain text and HTML
Student question: Is plain text the same as txt? I’m still having a problem with it. Answer: Beginning students learning how to code with web standards are sometimes confused about what plain text is and how it applies to HTML. Plain text refers to simple character set, like ASCII, or Unicode. It is the set…
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Arranging files and folder structure
The following two videos are intended for my beginning HTML students and address the following activities: Naming, arranging, and archiving the semester files and their directory structures. Downloading the unit zip files and how to incorporate them into your project. Note: You are only responsible for the following projects: Lesson (White pages): Lakeland Reeds Bed…
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Events in HTML
When beginners are learning web design, events can often be confusing. Are events part of HTML, Javascripts, or the DOM? What are they and how do we use them? What is an Event? HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a language we use to give instructions to a browser how to structure and…
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img width and height attributes
A student asks… “Just to clarify, the primary purpose of the width and height attributes is to reserve space for the image, not to actually resize the image, correct? “ The width and height attributes on the img tag actually do both; they reserve the screen real-estate and also resize the image. Reserving real-estate When…
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