My Experience Learning HTML Tags and Setting Up GitHub Pages
Frontend development Journey Day 2
As a beginner in front-end development, learning HTML was an exciting first step. On the second day, I delved deeper into HTML and explored various tags that structure content on a webpage. Here's a quick overview of my journey and the key HTML tags I used.
Key HTML Tags I Learned
Header Tags (
<h1> to <h6>
): Define headings of different levels.- Example:
<h1>Welcome to My Portfolio</h1>
- Example:
Paragraph Tag (
<p>
): Defines paragraphs.- Example:
<p>Introducing myself as a budding front-end developer.</p>
- Example:
Anchor Tag (
<a>
): Creates hyperlinks.- Example:
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourprofile">Visit my LinkedIn profile</a>
- Example:
Unordered List Tag (
<ul>
): Creates bullet-point lists.Example:
Ordered List Tag (
<ol>
): Creates numbered lists.Example:
Subscript Tag (
<sub>
): Defines subscript text.Example:
H<sub>2</sub>O
Superscript Tag (
<sup>
): Defines superscript text.- Example:
x<sup>2</sup>
- Example:
Abbreviation Tag (
<abbr>
): Defines abbreviations with hover text.- Example:
<abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr>
- Example:
Image Tag (
<img>
): Embeds images.- Example:
<img src="profile.jpg" alt="Profile Picture">
- Example:
My First Projects
I created a complete letter using the HTML tags I learned, which you can view on my GitHub.
Additionally, I built a simple portfolio and hosted it on GitHub Pages. My portfolio includes:
Header: "Welcome to My Portfolio"
Paragraph: Introducing myself
Unordered List: My hobbies
Ordered List: My goals for learning front-end development
Image: A profile picture
Link: My LinkedIn profile
You can check out my portfolio here.
Conclusion
Learning HTML and setting up GitHub Pages has been a rewarding experience. It has allowed me to understand the fundamentals of web development and apply them in practical projects. As I continue this journey, I look forward to mastering more advanced topics and integrating my design skills with front-end development. This is just the beginning, and I'm excited to see where this path will take me. Let's create something extraordinary together!