Let's get started learning HTML. I think it's pretty simple. HTML code is the 'backbone' of the Web. All Web pages are HTML files. ".html" or ".htm" at the end of a URL (Web address) is simply a normal computer file extension.
HTML is based on a system of tags, which are text inbetween angle brackets. (< and >) You type an HTML tag , then you type what you want to be affected by the tag, then you type an endtag, the HTML tag with a forward slash after the first bracket (<) (example: <b>what you want affected by the tag</b>). You can even put tags within tags, and tags within those tags. And so on.. Incidentally, the <b> tag makes text bold. The >html< tag starts all HTML files.
All HTML files have the same basic format:
<html><head><title>The title of your webpage, appears in window bar and in Favorites menus.</title></head>
<body>
The content of your webpage
</body></html>
Feel free to copy and paste this text into Notepad or SimpleText to use as a template.
Click on the links below to learn how to write the HTML for a specific feature.
Text
Formatting
Links
Color
Images
Tables
These are the 6 basic parts of HTML. Once you've looked at these pages, simply start with the above 'basic template' and use what you've learned to put any or all of these features into your webpage.
To learn how to publish finished webpages, click here.
To look at a Web page's code to see how it works and in order to learn how a certain feature is coded, click on the "View" menu and select "Source".
(You may see "<" and "&rt;" in my source code. These are the code bits for angle brackets. If I just typed in angle brackets, a Web browser will think I put in an actual HTML tag)
(However, feel free to save any of these pages to your computer for the purpose of studying them while you're off the 'Net.)