HTML

Html stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language and is the makeup code of the entire web.
It is the language that web browser, such as, firefox and internet explorer read and it gives web pages their structure and content.
The language is easy to learn but you have to be patient as it take a while to master.

Basic HTML tutorial 1

Try typing your web page, as you go through the steps

HTML pages are made up of elements. Elements exist for thing such as paragraphs and headers etc.
These elements consist of opening and closing tags

HTML opening and closing tags






Whatever the command is,it goes between the two tags.
The closing tag always has the forward slash in it with the command afterwards.
The example below shows the tags being used in a paragraph.

HTML opening and closing tags





Step 1

  • First of all create a new folder on your desktop.
    • Give it a name, I use "web design" for mine.
  • Next open up the computers "notepad"
    • You can do this by clicking "start", "going to all programs" and clicking on "Accessories"

Step 2

  • All HTML pages start and end with the HTML tags.
HTML tags






  • Everything on an HTML page, goes between the HMTL tags.

Step 3

  • Between the HTML tags goes the HEAD tags.
Header tags






  • HEAD tags provide information about the document.

Step 4

  • The next two tags are the Body tags.
Body tags tags





  • The BODY tags go underneath the HEAD tags and between the HTML tags.
  • All the content that is seen in the browser window goes between the BODY tags (eg) Text and pictures.
Click here for Step 5