The ART 170 class for the fall semester begins with the introduction
to web browsers.
Web Browsers are an application, when URLs are entered on a
web browser’s address bar, it searches for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript returns
with the required format and displays on the screen. There are different web
browsers available in the market. Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, internet
Explorer are some of the important web browsers. The web browsers releases different
versions with some modifications, new players are introduced every year.
As mentioned above web browsers display WebPages or websites
on their screen. Websites are collection of WebPages that are linked together and
shares a common design. Creating websites requires knowledge of HTML and CSS.
HTML is a set of instructions to create WebPages.HTML was introduced in
1989.CSS is a design layout introduced in 1994, the current version is CS3.
Some simple text editors like notepad and simple texts are used. There are some
editors which not only create the code but also help to visualize the webpage. These
are called WYSIWYG editors. Adobe Dreamweaver is an example of such editor. The
files and folders has to be named by following some rules like, never using
spaces between the file names, always use a lowercase letter and always write
file extension like html and jpg. These files should be saved under same folder
called root folder.
Below are the links related to videos and reading.
