Use these online HTML guides to help you. 
Understanding HTML |
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As part of your integrated Internet unit you are required to develop instructional materials in HyperText Markup Language, better known as World Wide Web Pages. Although this sounds pretty intimidating, HTML is actually very easy to learn and you will be able to use HTML editors that work much like a word processor.
To give you an idea of what HTML is, I have created this tutorial to help you learn what HTML tags are and how to use them to format text and insert images and links.
Web pages are actually nothing more than plain text files with HTML tags to tell web browsers, such as Netscape, how to display the information. HTML tags are contained in "greater than" < "and less than" > symbols. For example, <b> tells Netscape to display the following text in bold, and</b> tells Netscape to stop making the text bold.
Because HTML uses simple text files, web pages do not really have images in them. HTML simply tells the Web browser to display an image in a particular spot. The image itself is also a computer file and must be located in a place where Netscape can find it. For example, <img src="tree.gif"> is the code that tells Netscape to search out a file called "tree.gif" and display it in the web page.
I've created a modest graphics library for you to use in your web page construction. You can download an image file you see in a page by simply clicking on it with the right mouse button (click and hold on the Mac). A dropdown window will open and one of the choices should be "save image as."
If you would like a larger selection, you might want to do a web search for "Clip Art."
The strongest attribute of the World Wide Web is HyperText which allows browser users to simply click on "hot" word, or images or other objects that are "linked" to other web pages. In this way, all of the web pages on the Internet are, in some way connected. To create links to other locations/web pages, you need to insert the appropriate code.
You may want to download A Beginner's Guide to HTML, a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) File.
Use these online HTML guides to help you. Quick Reference Guide to HTML Tags
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
As you may notice, HTML is simple but can be made even easier by using an HTML editor (a program that helps you create HTML files much like a word processor). Netscape Composer is part of the Netscape 4.0 series and can be used quite effectively. In addition, Internet Explorer 4.0 also permits web page editing.
Claris HomePage is a great HTML editor available from FileMaker for both Windows and Macintosh computers. I recommend that you to go to their site and download a 30-day trial version of Claris HomePage 3.0.