VirtualMV/HTML/Basic/What is HTML?

Overview
This page provides a series of activities that you can complete while you work through the introduction to HTML?
 * How do you create a web page or web site?
 * What is Hypertext markup language (HTML)?

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 * On your profile page, create a page called UserName:HTMLIntro, using your UserName, then cut and paste the questions.
 * If you want to work as a group, one group member can create the page, the rest can use the same hyperlink and you will all access the same page.

What is HTML?

 * 1) In what year was the Hypertext system released and by who?
 * 2) What does the term tag mean for html?
 * 3) What is the first tag in an HTML file?
 * 4) What do HTML and XHTML have in common?

Web authoring
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 * 1) List and describe the three areas used when authoring web pages.
 * 2) Compare static web hosting and dynamic web hosting. Find two actual examples on the Web (not those listed in the text).
 * 3) Use wikipedia to list the three most popular web browsers and their market share.
 * 4) Describe the difference between an html text editor and an HTML WYSIWYG editor.