Title: Pre-topic Activity: HTML Basics
Course: Web Technology 2020 > Section: 2. Web Essentials - HTML

The purpose of this pre-topic activity is to get ready to start building static web pages, and get an insight of HTML basics, a language used to develop web pages.

Task:

- Visit the provided links to equip yourself with mark-up language and focus on the basic standard HTML document structure format before the lecture in the classroom, which will be practical-oriented. The w3schools link provided contains a built-in editor to test the codes you write.

- Familiarize yourself with the tools needed to write HTML pages.
- Take an assignment Get_Ready_HTML to check your basic understanding of HTML Basics.

Do this assignment before the face-to-face lecture 2.

- At the end of the unit (after lecture 2 and practical 1), come back and try the assignment again to see how your grasp of the function of the tools has improved.

Resources to use

- The links are provided:
    - https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
    - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html5/index.htm

- To download an offline version of the w3schools, follow the instructions provided in the link below:
    - https://www.dunebook.com/download-w3schools-offline/

- Tools (Editors) for writing HTML can be found in the link below:
    - https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_editors.asp