Embedded Files
HTML & CSS
For the Paper 3 exam you will complete a practical task to create a website based on the files that you are given.
You can use a website editing program but it is important that you have a good understanding of HTML and CSS as you will have to add or edit this.
HTML tags
It is useful to practice using and understand the following HTML tags:
html - to state that the page is a html webpage
head - contains metadata (title, styles, etc..)
body - contains the main content of the webpage
h1 - headings
h2
h3, h4, h5...
p - paragraph
table
tr - table row
td -table data
img - image
a - hyperlink
li - list
ol - ordered list
ul - unordered list
HTML controls the content and structure of a webpage.
A good website to practice and learn HTML is on the www.code.org website. There is range practical tasks to apply skills in for beginners.
CSS
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is the language for controlling the presentation of webpages, including colours, fonts and layouts. This is the presentation layer of web design.
CSS is written differently from HTML. You will start with a tag that is used in the HTML code. Then use what is inside the curly brackets to describe what each HTML tag will look like.
You can link the CSS file to the HTML webpage which allows you to control many pages with one CSS. If you need to make changes to the background colour or font, for example, on every page, you would only have to change it once in the CSS. You can see where this would be efficient on large websites! CSS is also important for consistency across the website.
Learn HTML in 1 minute
How to make an HTML webpage using notepad. This video covers the main tags needed in HTML.
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