Building Web Pages with HTML and CSS

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Building Web Pages with HTML and CSS. This tutorial presents an introduction to building web pages using HTML 4 and CSS. It is not …

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Building Web Pages with HTML and CSS
This tutorial presents an introduction to building web pages using HTML 4 and CSS. It is not
meant to be a complete guide or reference, but rather it serves as a basic introduction to
creating web pages. The Biomedical Informatics Technical Support team (BITS) put this tutorial
together to assist new students.
A Very Brief History of the World Wide Web and HTML
We will not spend too much time going over the history of the Internet or the World Wide Web,
however, it may be useful to trace a quick history and describe the original intent behind this
Internet service. The history of the World Wide Web or the Web begins with the work of Tim
Berners-Lee. The Web grew out of work that Berners-Lee was doing while at CERN during the
1980s. One of his early achievements was the creation of a notebook program ENQUIRE,
which allowed for links between arbitrary nodes. Building upon this work, in March of 1989,
Berners-Lee submitted the original proposal for an Information Management system. The goal
was to build a linked information system to preserve and easily retreive information.
To make…