Author: Mr Stratton

Computing teacher and a PT at Coltness High School.

HTML Tags

The  main structural HTML tags are

  • <HTML> </HTML> – This tells the browser where the HTML pages starts amd stops.
  • <Head> </Head> – This is the header of the HTML page it is not displayed but contains information that is required for the page to be displayed properly.
  • <Title> </Title> – This is the title of the page, it is displayed in the tab at the top of the screen.
  • <Body> </Body> – The contents of the page are contained here/
  • <p> – Takes a new paragraph
  • <!– Comment –> – This is a comment for the designer and is not displayed in the browser.

The main formatting tags are

  • <Font color =”green”> green text </font> – This changes the colour of the text, note the American spelling. Colours can be described by name or by a hexadecimal reference.
  • <font face=”Tahoma”> Fancy fonts </font> – You can change the font the text is displayed in.
  • <b></b> – Embolden the text.
  • <i></i> – Italics the text
  • <u></u> – Underline the text
  • <H1>..<H7> – Set the text as a header and specify a type
  • <sup>2</sup> – Display as supertext (think squares)
  • &nbsp – Display a non blank space

Web Authoring Introduction

A web site is composed of many linked web pages. These web pages are written using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).

HTML Tags have an effect on the way your web pages appear. Tags appear within angular brackets <HTML> </HTML> to start and end the code. For example paragraphs are <p> and </p> to end. The main text
would be <body> </body> and headers could be <h1> </h1> or <h2> <h2>.

We will be using Dreamweaver this year to create websites.

Creating an Advent Calender in Scratch

It is fairly easy and quick in scratch to create an advent calender.

  • Add the design to the stage background.
  • Add sprite that has the number of the door on it.
  • Add an extra costume to the sprite that will be the gift.
  • Add a script to switch costume when the sprite is clicked.

If it’s so easy then why do I have a video on it? Watch and see after the jump

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