14. September 2009 23:17
The great thing about html is that you can do it almost any text editor. You don’t have to buy any fancy software; you can just type it up Notepad, which is included on all MS Windows machines. Notepad is the best for coding, because it doesn’t have any text formatting built into it. It is always good to learn to write the code by hand, before moving on to and website development suites.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the basic markup language that gave rise to the internet. A webpage is made up of a collection of markup tags and plain text. The markup tags will determine how the text and other page elements will be displayed. The markup tags will be housed inside of angle brackets, such as <HTML>
The majority of the tags work only in pairs , an opening bracket( i.e. <body>) and a closing bracket that will be noted by a closing forward slash (i.e. </body>). Without both tags the page may not work, or will not work correctly.
The most basic website requires an opening and closing set of html and body tags.
<html>
<body>
Some content
</body>
</html>
The <html> tag signifies the start of the webpage and </html> signifies the end of the page. In between the body tags is where the page content will be placed.
As you go more into the proper form of making an HTML page, you’ll want to use a page header section with the page title inside of it. Putting a title in here places the title of the page in the browser toolbar.
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
There are a lot of different aspects of HTML and HTML tags to go into, so I should probably end it here and continue on this topic another day.
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