Coding Your Web Site
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 By Philip Wik The purpose of this short primer is to give you the information so that you can start coding your site immediately. To do this, I'll give you examples from this web site mymallandnews.com. I don't claim that this site has the latest and most elegant programming. But it does have enough variety to cover what you need to get started. In this tutorial, I'll give you coding examples in HTML and JavaScript and provide you with links to other information. But, before we go under the hood, let's consider what we can do to teach ourselves. Everyone has different styles of learning. Some people prefer class room instruction and others like the challenge of certification exams. I prefer independent study myself, and this is how I approach learning, say, a new computer language. First, I go out to the search engines and scan for that topic, printing off glosseries and coding examples. Secondly, I root around on the web, looking for live examples. Internet is "open source"-- meaning that you can see the source of most of what you see displayed. However, before you start copying other people's code and graphics, you should aware that copyright law is evolving to becoming more restrictive. Finally, I go to the local book store. I generally buy two books. The first book is a simple overview with lots of pictures and perhaps with the word idiot or dummy in the title. The next book from a different publisher (to ensure that it's written from a different perspective with different authors) is a "bible"-- an authoritative volume that covers the minutia of the language. What I look at first is the index-- the longer and more detailed the better. And if it comes with a web site link and a CD, all the better. Here is an overview of this course: Your First Web Site Building the HEAD Building the BODY BODY Tags Frames Style Adding Java Applets O.K. Let's get started. The web page you are looking at is made up with HTML-- Hyper Text Markup Language. It doesn't need to be compiled. HTML consists of building blocks, called HTML tags. Most tags have a beginning tag and an ending tag. Here is an example of a line of HTML (a link) with the beginning and ending tags:
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