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Introduction to HTML, CFML, & CSS

At KSC we use an assortment of markup, programming, and scripting languages to develop web pages and web applications. Most of our page are developed primarily with HTML and CFML, but our site also includes a style sheet written in CSS. At this time, page editors only work with the HTML portions of a page.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
HTML is the basic markup language use to make text and images appear on a web page. You should be familiar with the following HTML tags:

    <h3></h3>
    <p>< /p>
    <strong></strong>
    <em></em>
    <ul></ul >
    <ol></ol >
    <li></li>
    <table></table>
    <tr></tr>
    <td></td>
    <a href=""></a>
    <img src=""></>

ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
CFML, which is very similar to HTML, is used to create online forms, post and retreive data, and build functionality and inter activity into a web site. For the most part, page editors do not write any ColdFusion, but you maybe familiar with the following tags because we use them to call ur header and footer files.

    <cfinclude template="/core/foldername_head.cfm">
    <cfmodule template="/core/kschead.cfm" site="foldername">

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets extend HTML's inadequate set of style tools by offering a more robust set of tools that help web designers and developers control page layout and text formatting. Page editors will learn to use a very limited set if CSS properties, tags, and attributes to enhance their site. Primarily page editors will use the following tags with the 'class' attribute to charge the font size, color, leading, and/or style of specific page elements.

    <p class="">< /p>
    <div class=""></div>
    <span class=""></span>
    <li class=""></li>

For more on CSS, visit the Using Cascading Style Sheets help file.



Updated: August 27, 2003

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