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Website Development & Hosting

Basic Layout

You begin a document by entering the html element. Your document is placed between two tags

that tell the server to interpret that document as hypertext.

The head element contains descriptive information about the document.

Between  the  head  tags,  there  should  be   title  tags.  Title  tags  are  extremely

important to the proper indexing of your page by automated web indexers; you should choose the

text they enclose with care. The information to be  served  to clients should be contained within

body tags   one following the head information and the other probably immediately preceding the

close html tag at the bottom of your document.  

Thus, the basic layout of an html file is:

Displayed title of the document

The content and information

Applications Integrating Desktop Publishing .unctionality

Below are some applications used for web design without using html directly   what you create is

what will be seen on a web browser (the html is automatically generated in the background). Using

the html view, however, you can edit parts of the site by modifying, adding, or deleting the code as

appropriate.

1.

Microsoft .rontPage

2.

Macromedia DreamWeaver

3.

Adobe Golive

4.

HotDog Web Editors

5.

CofeeCup software

6.

Stone Studio

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