8.2 Teacher resource 1
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Today you will:
think about criteria for judging a
website
understand that an effective website
will match the needs and interests of
users
use software to create a web page
Slide 1
The task:
create a web page
give it a title
add links
add pictures
Slide 2
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
Pull down View, then Source, to see the HTML code.
Slide 3
Basic page
<html>
<body>
Search engines
</body>
</html>
Slide 4
Basic page
<html>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
</body>
</html>
The <h1> tag sets text as a heading in style 1.
Valid tags are <h1>; <h2>; <h3>; <h4>; <h5>; <h6>.
What effect does changing the number have?
Slide 5
Basic page
<html>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
Yahoo<br>
Excite<br>
Google<br>
<br> creates a line break
</body>
<p> and </p> can be used to
</html>
begin and end a paragraph
Slide 6
Adding hyperlinks
<html>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a><br>
<a href="http://www.excite.co.uk">Excite</a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.fr">Google</a><br>
</body>
</html>
The URL of a hyperlink must be
enclosed in quotation marks
Slide 7
Adding the title
<html>
The title is not the same
as the page heading
<head>
<title>Information on search engines</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a><br>
<a href="http://www.excite.co.uk">Excite</a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.fr">Google</a><br>
</body>
</html>
Slide 8
Creating the HTML file
The text file can be created in a
simple text editor such as Notepad.
The file name must have .htm at the
end to indicate that it is a web page.
The file contains instructions to the
web browser that describe how the
page should look.
Slide 9
Judging a website
Is the information relevant to the users?
Is it clear, up-to-date, accurate and
unbiased?
Do the images enhance, not distract?
Are they meaningful? Is the font size
suitable?
Is the site easy to use and to navigate?
Slide 10