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New Video Tutorials

2009-12-07T13:23:00.000-05:00

Video tutorials will soon be added to the blog. Stay tuned....

Submit your questions

2009-12-07T12:38:00.002-05:00

I am excited to help empower women everywhere in learning html. Please feel free to send your questions and I will do my best to answer them.

Smiles,
Natalie

What are tags?

2009-09-08T10:58:00.001-04:00

HTML is a scripting language made up of tags that begin with "<" and end with ">"

Horizontal Lines

2009-09-04T10:52:00.009-04:00

Here's an answer to a request:

Adding a horizontal line can make the information on your web page easier to read and follow. But what if you want to change the color of your horizontal line?

Here's how:

1. Crack open the html view on your web page with an html editor.

2. Find the code for the horizontal line. It should look something like this: hr style="height: 4px; color: #C0C0C0" /

(Important: remember to add the "<" and the beginning of "height" and a ">" on the end of the code after the "/" )

Here's how the above code displays in the browser:

Now, let's say I want to change the line from gray to pink. I will need to change the gray color code #C0C0C0 to the pink color code #FF00FFlike so:

hr style="height: 4px; color: #FF00FF" /

The new horizontal line will now display as pink instead of gray as seen below:

And now you know how to change the color on a horizontal line in HTML.

What is CSS?

2009-09-03T15:02:00.004-04:00

Cascading style sheets (CSS) is a scripting language that allows website designers to better create and manage the custom look and feel of a website when viewed across multiple browsers.

Linking Pages is What Makes the World Wide Web Go 'round

2009-09-03T10:20:00.007-04:00

When creating a website, chances are you want more than one page. Let's say you have a three-page website. Breaking away from some of the technical terminology, think of your website as a tropical ocean, each page as little islands, and your website visitors as little sailors.

Once a sailor finds your first island (page one), how is she going to reach the other islands? Naturally she needs a little boat to sail to the next island.

In the HTML world, these little boats are called hyperlinks. They connect little islands to each other (hyperlinks within a website) and big islands to other big islands (hyperlinks across multiple websites).

What is HTML?

2009-09-03T10:16:00.003-04:00

HTML is an acronym for hypertext markup language. It is a scripting language used to create websites.