Introduction
HTML is a simple, universal mark-up language that allows Web publishers to create complex pages of text and images that can be viewed by anyone else on the Web, regardless of what kind of computer or browser is being used.
Despite what you might have heard, you don't need any special software to create an HTML page; all you need is a word processor (such as Notepad, Wordpad or Microsoft Word) and a working knowledge of HTML.
There are easier ways to create HTML pages by using HTML editors such as Macromedia Homesite, CoffeCup HTML Editor and free software such as
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HTML is just a series of tags that are integrated into a text document. They're a lot like stage directions - silently telling the browser what to do, and what props to use. HTML works in a very simple, very logical, format. It reads like you do, top to bottom, left to right. That's important to remember. HTML is written with TEXT. What you use to set certain sections apart as bigger text, smaller text, bold text, underlined text, is a series of tags, but they are distinguished from the regular text because they are placed in small angle brackets.
HTML tags are usually English words (such as blockquote) or abbreviations (such as "p" for paragraph). All tag formats are the same. The first thing to remember about tags is that they travel in pairs. They begin with a less-than sign: < and end with a greater-than sign: >. Always. No exceptions. What goes inside the < and > is the tag. Learning HTML is learning the tag to perform whatever command you want to do.
The basic HTML page begins with the tag <html> and ends with </html>. In between, the file has two sections - the header and the body.
The header - enclosed by the <head> and </head> tags - contains information about a page that won't appear on the page itself, such as the title. The body - enclosed by <body> and </body> - is where the action is. Every thing that appears on the page is contained within these tags.
The tag for bold lettering is "B". That makes sense.
Here's what the tags look like to turn the word "Joe" bold:
<B>Joe</B>
Look At What's Happening:
1.<B>Joe</B>is the beginning bold tag.
2. "Joe" is the word being affected by the <B></B>tag.
3. </B>is the end bold tag. Notice it is exactly the same as the beginning tag except there is a slash in front of the tag command.
Now let's look at the Basic web page structure
