Session #1 Sept. 13 Review

Hello everyone! Thursday's class was fantastic. Everyone did a great job and picked up a lot of new knowledge in a very short amount of time - you should be very proud. Below is a quick outline of the material we covered in the first session. I will add more material befoire we meet again and formally review before Session 2. Again, thank you all very much for doing such great work.
Talk to you soon,
-Eric

• Introduction and Overview
• About me...http://www.ericsizemore.com
• Pointed out that in Internet Explorer's "Help" menu, "About IE" that the web browser originated in Champaign-Urbana, at the University of Illinois.
• Told the story of Marc Andreesen
• Covered some very fundamental topics in HTML, the language of the World Wide Web
• HTML uses Tags which are enclosed in
• brackets (<>)
• Tags come in pairs, opening (<>) and closing ()
• For example, in HTML to make text BOLD you could type the following:
• This is an example sentence with one word in bold
• Tags are "nested" (Esp.: jerarquizado, Fr.: niché )
• Basic tags include: HTML, HEAD, TITLE, and BODY
• You can create a basic HTML document quickly using Internet Explorer -> File -> Import and Export and Export Faorites to create a basic HTML file of your bookmarks / favorites
• We covered how to set up a Blogger account
• We looked at the difference between "Edit HTML" vs "rich Text / Compose" in Blogger
• We grabbed images using Google's Image search
• We looked at Wikipedia.org

Save as...*.html