CUATION

 WYSIWYG editors tend to work best with files they’ve created themselves. If you have some existing HTML files that you need to edit, opening them in a             WYSIWYG editor can do more harm than good, particularly if the files were created in a different WYSIWYG editor

In addition to HTML and WYSIWYG editors, you also can use converters, which take files from many popular word processing programs and Convert  them HTML . with a simple set of templates. You can write your pages entirely in your favorite word processing program and them convert the result when you’re done.

In many cases, converters can be extremely can be extremely useful, particularly for putting existing documents on the web as quickly as possible. However, converters suffer from many of the some problems as WYSIWYG editors. The results can vary from browser to browser, and many newer or advanced features aren’t available in the converters. Also, most converter programs are fairly limited, not necessarily by their own features, but mostly by the limitations in HTML itself. No amount of fancy converting will make HTML do things that it can’t do already . if a particular capability doesn’t exist in HTML, the converter can’t do anything to solve that problem. In fact, the converter might end up doing strange things to your HTML files, causing you more work than if you just did all the formatting yourself.

SUMMARY

Today, you learned some basic pints about what HTML is and how you define a text document as a webpage. You learned a bit about the history of HTML and the reasons why the HTML specification has changed several times since the beginning. You also learned how cascading style sheets can be used to augment your HTML. You created your first web page with some basic tags. It wasn’t so bad, was it? You also  learned a bit about the current standard version of HTML-XHTML, and how to apply styles using cascading style sheets. In tomorrow’s lesson, you’ll expand on this and will learn more about adding headings, text, and lists to your pages.

WORKSHOP

Now that you’ve had an introduction to HTML and a taste of creating your first very simple web page, here’s a workshop that will guide you toward more of what you’ll learn. A couple of questions and answers that relate to HTML formatting are followed by a brief quiz and answers about a HTML. The exercises prompt you to examine the code of a more advanced page in your browser.