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Webmaster 101 - Part 1 What is a webmaster? Back in the mid 1990's a webmaster was usually a technically minded person who was responsible for the creation, content and design of a web site. Most webmasters were people who either...

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Lesson 3 - File Paths and Operating Systems One of the common issues that new webmasters face is when images and links to other pages either disappear or don't work once the website is uploaded to a web server. This is usually for one of three reasons: The...

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Zip And FTP Upload In this brief tutorial we're going to zip up some files in a folder, configure an FTP program and then upload the files to a web server. You can use your own ZIP and FTP programs if you like, but for...

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Lesson 2 - More Basic HTML In Lesson 1 we looked at the struture of a very basic web page as well as a couple of essentials such as line breaks, paragraphs, coloured and bold text. In this lesson we'll be looking at the rest of...

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Lesson 1 - Basic HTML In this first video we use notepad to create a very basic HTML page. You need to crawl before you walk, so if you've never created a HTML page then this is a good starting point. We also look at the...

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Glossary

This is a glossary of the terms used in the webmaster course videos.

CSS

-  is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.  more…

DTD

- is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML-family markup languages (SGML, XML, HTML). A DTD is a kind of XML schema.

DTDs use a terse formal syntax that declares precisely which elements and references may appear where in the document of the particular type, and what the elements’ contents and attributes are. DTDs also declare entities which may be used in the instance document.  more…

Doctype

-  is an instruction that associates a particular SGML or XML document (for example, a webpage) with a Document Type Definition (DTD) (for example, the formal definition of a particular version of HTML). In the serialized form of the document, it manifests as a short string of markup that conforms to a particular syntax.  more…

HTML

– which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of “tags” surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content.  more…

Rendering

– is the process of generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs.  more…