This is one of several old guides and tutorials offered by the Center for the Advancment of Teaching. If you'd like something more up-to-date, please check out "Achieving HTML Literacy" on the CAT Base wiki. It has a video and everything.
This particular tutorial, titled Introduction to HTML, is a very basic introduction to Hypertext Markup Language, originally developed in 1999. If you're interested in publishing on the Web, you really need to know what HTML is and how it works.
It should be noted that HTML5 is an official standard as of October 2014, so everything here is somewhat outmoded, though basic principles may remain relevant. This tutorial is geared toward the latest version of HTML at the time of its creation, which was HTML 4.01. It appeared for a while that this would be the final version of HTML, with all further development occuring in XHTML. (You may wish to examine our Introduction to XHTML, which assumes a basic working knowledge of HTML. If you are new to HTML, you will still want to work through this tutorial first.) HTML5 is intended to subsume both HTML 4 and XHTML; for a tutorial on HTML5, see the aforementioned "Achieving HTML Literacy," or search the web, or check out w3schools.
The pages are organized into the following sections:
You can also use our interactive slideshow gizmo at your own risk. Use your left and right arrow keys to navigate. The original version was geared for HTML 4.01, which we maintain for historical purposes; we've got an updated version that attempts to account for HTML 5. Choose your poison: Introduction to HTML 4 or Introduction to HTML 5. What the heck, here's the slideshow for our Advanced HTML workshop, which was offered as part three of this series way back in 1999.
The "Anatomy of a Web Page" is designed to be printed front-to-back and folded:
If you wish to work through the tutorial for this seminar, it's recommended that you print it first. It's about 20 pages. The tutorial is available in the following formats:
The following quick reference sheet will help you with the tutorial. It is two pages long. The quick reference sheet is available in the following formats:
Here are links to the materials needed for the tutorial:
