HOW TO BUILD A PROFESSIONAL WEB SITE     Rel. 1.1

EXERCISE 03

The solution is in the next Lesson.

Hard enough for you ?
Well, I told you it would have been hard, at least in the beginning.
But, don't feel depressed, now I am going to give you some good news.

• Firstly, all this HTML Code writing will soon be done by a very nice "slave" on your behalf. It is a very disciplined slave "if you know how to control it". Now it is still too early to use it. I want you to do some hard work, which you will find in the end very beneficial. But in a couple of lessons I will provide you with a beautiful tool that will do the coding for you ("but not the thinking".....)
• Then, cherry on the cake, just do a little experiment. Log onto the Net, go to any Web Page, and then right-click on a Body area of the Page in which there are no images (for instance you may right click on a background area, or on some text). A menu will appear. Select "View Source", like this:
  
  
  

  Alternatively go to View and select Page Source, like this:

  
  

  Guess what ?
  The HTML code of that page will appear !: Explorer will present it as a Notepad text document - Netscape will present it in a Source Window, again as pure text.

  What is so exciting about this ? You have the possibility of seeing the code of all Web pages published on the Net (well, almost all - some author hides the code through some JavaScripting - I cannot understand what is so secret about it....). So you can improve your HTML knowledge and abilities by watching what other good Web Designers do ! This is a very valuable flow of know-how for the Professional Web Designer: by looking at the way HTML code is used you will soon understand every secret of the Net ! I will come back to this point later. In the meantime, you may also have a look at the HTML code I am using to display this Lesson: do what I just revealed and you will soon know a lot of my little secrets.....
  Obviously, a lot of the coding will look to you as pure Birzebuggikistanese language now, but it will become more and more clear with time....