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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

 give it a heading

 add links

 add a picture

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

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Adding the title
The title is not the same
<html> 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
Levels

Planning, Developing, Evaluating & Modelling


Level 6: Independent work,

efficient sequences of HTML coding

Acted upon teacher feedback and implemented independently

Level 5:Use a range of techniques to produce HTML coding.

Judge how successful your work has been and ways in which it can be
improved.

Accurate sequences of coding, rechecking work

Level 4:Explain how successful your work has been

Improve sequences of coding following feedback from teachers

Slide 9
Adding an image
Note the img tag trailing
<html>
slash
<head>
<title>Information on search engines</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Search engines</h1>
<img src="http://www.ealing. uk/images/banner_badge.gif "
height="120" width="120" />
<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>

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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 11
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?
Does it contain useful links?
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